Company Profile
CWS Apartment Homes
Company Overview
Since 1969, CWS has delivered exceptional living experiences for our customers. Over the years, our company has expanded and we’re proud to serve more than 60,000 residents and 800 team members across the country.
We believe our success is a product of staying true to who we were at the onset. As a result, our daily actions are designed to deliver on our purpose of “Enhancing Lives the CWS Way.” From the minute you join the CWS family, as a resident or team member, you’ll experience the difference.
How? We have a signature style which includes friendly team members, responsive service, well-designed floor plans, unique amenities, and spotless communities. We deliver on this by providing teams with the training they need and the perks, benefits, and balance they cannot live without.
Company History
With humble beginnings and the grit of our three founding partners, Jim Clayton, Bill Williams and Steve Sherwood, CWS began managing investment properties in 1969 with a single asset in Southern California. To grow the business, our founders saw opportunity in under-valued mobile home parks and pursued this strategy for the next 20 years. By the 1980s CWS had established itself as one of the largest owners and operators of manufactured home communities in the United States, and would use this success to transition into managing apartment communities. In addition to purchasing apartment communities, in the 1990s CWS began developing newly constructed luxury apartment communities. Within 10 years of their first apartment community purchase, CWS surpassed 13,000 apartment homes. Today, CWS continues to specialize in the acquisition, development, management, and disposition of luxury apartment communities around the country with more than 29,000 apartment homes.
Aptly named after our three founders, Clayton, Williams and Sherwood, CWS has grown from a single property into an industry leader, and in 2019 we celebrated our 50th anniversary. As we look towards the future, CWS will continue to stay true to who we were at the onset with a thoughtful investment strategy and core values we believe in to guide us.
Benefits
Medical: We offer four competitive health care plans from which to choose.
Dental: CWS offers a basic dental plan and an enhanced plan, to make sure your coverage meets your needs.
Vision: Our vision coverage lets you choose from participating and non-participating providers.
Flexible Spending Accounts: This type of reimbursement account allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible health care or dependent-care expenses within the plan year.
Health Savings Account: If you elect to enroll in one of our High Deductible Health Plans you are eligible to set aside pre-tax dollars in a Health Savings Account.
Life Insurance: Help protect your family with company-paid life and AD&D insurance. You may also purchase additional supplemental life insurance.
Disability: We offer company-paid, short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Paid Parental Leave: CWS offers Paid Parental Leave for new moms and dads.
401(k) Savings Plan: CWS offers a 401(k) savings plan that lets you contribute pre-tax dollars to invest in your choice of funds. Plus, we provide a matching contribution.
Pet Insurance: At CWS, we know pets are family too. You can elect to cover the pets you love.
Time Away from Work: Paid Vacation, sick, personal days and holidays, including your own personal birthday holiday. We want to make sure you've got time to enjoy a Work/Life balance.
Tuition Reimbursement: We support team members that are taking college or vocational classes by assisting with eligible expenses. Supporting learning is a priority with us!
Fitness Bucks: Fitness Bucks are offered to team members for fitness-related activities, equipment, or fitness items. This is part of our Wellness Program.
Apartment Discount: When you work with us, you can live with us, too! Take advantage of our CWS apartment discount.