IREM and other organizations are making efforts to spread the good news of a career in property management. : Much has been written—even in this space—about the dire nature of succession in the real estate community and the aging of practitioners in virtually all disciplines related to the built environment. To hear some pundits, it would seem that the graying of commercial and residential real estate is not only at hand, but is so far advanced that in a few years, there will be no one left to switch on the lights.