RAM Corporate Tax Credit Compliance Team Meeting

The RAM Compliance division held a team meeting on June 25^th and 26^th at the Panama City Corporate office.  The entire team including Wendi LeMense, Sonya Knight, Nikki Winecoff, Nadine Jean-Noel, Denise Medina, Eric Sangster, Kelsey Brites and the two newest RAM Specialists, Barbara Loughner and Yasi Otero, met for OneSite and Tax Credit Compliance training and some good old fashioned team building.   Barbara, previously the manager at Magnolia Pointe Apartments in Panama City, FL is now a Compliance and OneSite Specialist, devoting half of her time to the Compliance Division and the other half assisting in the OneSite Division.   We are happy to have her assistance.   Yasi comes to us from Seminole Ridge Apartments in Orlando, FL where she worked as a Leasing Agent.  She has a great deal of knowledge with Tax Credit Compliance and has hit the ground running.  She is assisting Eric in the Orlando office and he is very happy to have her and so are we.   It was a great opportunity to introduce Barbara and Yasi to the division and to give them some insight into just how everything works in our department.

Being spread out from Miami to Orlando to Charlotte, NC, we rarely have an opportunity to have the entire group together so we all enjoyed this opportunity to spend time together and train on OneSite and a variety of compliance topics and issues.   As you are probably aware, maintaining compliance for our extensive portfolio of apartment communities, each with its own unique layered funding and regulation requirements, is not an easy task.  There are many gray areas and each community has its own set of requirements.  Nothing in this business is uniform.  Fortunately, our Compliance Specialists are top notch and they have an excellent understanding of what is required to maintain compliance.  They also provide outstanding support to the site staff and are here to assist them in any way possible.

Of course our team meeting wasn’t all work.  We had a great time taking a sunset sailboat cruise, visiting our beautiful beaches and sampling the local fare eating at Spinnaker Beach Club, J. Michaels and Schooners.  We all enjoyed our time together and everyone went home re-energized  with a better understanding of OneSite and how it relates to  Compliance, as well as how we can continue to support the on-site staff and assure that our communities stay in compliance.