IREM installs Monroe of CRM as 2009 nat'l. president

The Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) installed Pamela Monroe, CPM, of Pleasantville, N.J., as the 2009 president during the professional association's Fall Business and Governance Meetings. With 25 years of professional industry experience, Monroe joined Community Realty Management (CRM) in 2002 and serves as CRM's senior VP.  Since beginning her career in Mobile, Ala., she has overseen properties throughout the southeast, Texas, Oklahoma, N.J., Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and the Virgin Islands.   Monroe said, "It is a great honor and an awesome responsibility to serve as IREM president.  Building on our predecessors' accomplishments over more than seven decades, IREM will emphasize, more aggressively than ever before, the expertise that professional real estate managers bring to the table for building property value - in good times and bad." Monroe's background includes managing all types of multifamily housing - including conventional properties, Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) housing, senior housing, and condominiums. She also has managed corporate portfolios.   Monroe graduated from the University of South Alabama with a B.S. degree and holds a Real Estate broker's license from the state of Alabama. She earned her Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation in 1985, has been an IREM chapter president and, in 2003, was named "CPM of the Year" by IREM's South Jersey chapter no. 101.