An Experienced Property Preservationist position just opened up in the “McCall, Donnelly, and Surrounding Areas” as I see in Craigslist. No, I’m not looking for a new job, but I do have all new positions in the area via Craigslist going into my Google Reader. It’s been interesting to say the least. Pretty. Slow ’round these parts. Anyway, this one (like they all don’t) caught my eye because I wasn’t sure what it was. Call me naive. I’ve never been in the banking or real estate world and didn’t know what a “property preservationist” was! So I read the job description carefully and thought — hmm… this sounds like a landscape/yard maintenance position. And I wondered if I discovered a newly renamed position, much like the “Sanitary Engineer”. So, I went-a-googling and found out that the job description on Craigslist was a bit misleading, but more importantly, I am just dumb sometimes. Sometimes? Hope so.
Interestingly, there’s not a wiki page for “property preservationist”, so you wiki-types — have at it!
So what is it exactly? Near as I can tell, it’s officially the person that banks send into (often trashed) homes that are in foreclosure and gets them cleaned and sealed up, so the asset doesn’t deteriorate further. Hence the term “property preservationist.”
I’ll always reserve the right to get smarter.
