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Equity LifeStyle Properties

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Equity LifeStyle Properties reviews

3.3

67% would recommend to a friend

(525 total reviews)
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Marguerite Nader

76% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Equity LifeStyle Properties has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 525 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Equity LifeStyle Properties employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.8 stars).

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525 reviews
1.0
Oct 16, 2015

Worst Place I've Ever Worked

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Location. Some people in some departments get to work from home sometimes.

Cons

Chicago office is disorganized and unruly. Most departments have very inefficient and old systems. Most departments are either micro managed or not managed at all. Salaries and bonuses are low.There is a ridiculously high amount of turnover. Employees in all departments are just spending their days putting out fires. No real investment into the Chicago employees, their well-being, their growth, their chances at other job opportunities. Benefits are so expensive. Middle management is not good at all, and not supportive, because they're just there because no one else was around long enough to take the job. People at all levels, except executives, are very unhappy, unproductive, and uncooperative.

1.0
May 15, 2015

Be smart and stay away.

Recommend
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Pros

There is no good reasons to come on board or stay with ELS. Lawsuits, top heavy management and unethical practices is the ELS way and its only getting worse.

Cons

They mistreat and are very disrectful for ALL their employees that work for there properties. Extremely high turn over rate!!Management would rather invest their money in purchases of new properties than maintaining and improving there 400+ properties.

1.0
Jul 2, 2013

Worst Company I've Ever Worked For

Recommend
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Pros

Great commission structure ~ until it was cut. For some, in half. Enjoy my co-workers.

Cons

Impossible to name them all. I am continually shocked that ELS is a publicly traded company, and a successful one, at that. It's a testament to how hard the employees work. No systems in place for inventory. The entire company runs on Google docs, as it's too cheap to invest in quality systems. When I started, the email platform was Lotus Notes. Hello, 1979. IT is a joke. Regional VPs micromanage to death, new policies and procedures are introduced daily, but are never thought out long-term. This results in someone figuring out they don't work and replacing them with new ones that were also not thought-out. It's a vicious cycle. The health "insurance" is a joke. I pay $200 per month for a $2k deductible ~ for a single person. I cannot wait to land a new job and tell this company to get bent.

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