Hi Michelle, I am also a huge fan of education. The best education I have received in property management, has been at the bottom. I find the cleaning person with similarities with the property manager. This person asides cleaning, sees everything the office personnel and maintenance personnel do.I have learned through experience that in property management, one can not start at the top, middle, or any where in between. The bottom, is the foundation of property management. Since then, I have been a maintenance supervisor for an apartment complex,leasing agent, and property manager. Owner of a maintenance company, contracting with different real estate companies doing make readies and repairs for selling or renting properties. I now have a real estate degree, and in the process of obtaining a business management, accounting, towards property management degree. To conclude, education is power, but, only when understood and properly administered.