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What do you want in a property management company?
As a property owner, you want to work with a company that has genuine skills, service and expertise - so you don't have the headaches of renting, managing, and maintaining your valued investment yourself.
So why not hire the management company of the author of the best
selling real estate management book in the country? Robert Griswold’s Property
Management for Dummies has sold over 60,000 copies in less than 3
years. If you are in southern California or southern Nevada, you can hire
Robert’s firm to manage your own small residential property. Maybe a property you acquired with the sage advice found in Robert’s
latest book (with co-author Eric Tyson) Real
Estate Investing for Dummies.
Griswold Real Estate Management, experts in the management of small residential properties, has served property owners for nearly twenty-five years. Combining a unique customized approach with the sophisticated resources of a national management firm, Griswold Real Estate Management places the highest priority on accountability, accessibility and personalized service.
We guarantee to all of our clients: Your calls and requests for service are answered promptly. What's more, we take the initiative ourselves. Unlike some other management firms, we specialize in regular visual inspection of our managed properties - detecting potential problems before they become real problems. After all, our expertise is what you're looking for, isn't it?
Griswold Real Estate Management has been awarded the Accredited Management
Organization (AMO®) designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management
(IREM). Across the country, less than 5% of all management firms have earned
this distinction, by fulfilling the most stringent requirements in expertise,
education, integrity and financial stability.
In addition to our corporate office in San Diego and a satellite office in Los Angeles (serving all five Southern California counties), we also have our large corporate office in Las Vegas which has served southern Nevada for nearly 15 years.
Service and expertise - the critical elements you need for profitable, efficient property management. That's what Griswold Real Estate Management has to offer.
Griswold Real Estate Management provides these standard services:
- Highly Responsive Management Team
- Aggressive Marketing Plan
- Comprehensive Tenant Screening
- Aggressive Rent Collection
- 24-hour On-call Maintenance with no labor or materials price mark-up
- Complete financial Accounting with timely monthly operating statements
- Annual Budget Preparation
- Review of Vendor Contracts
- Vendor Supervision
And above all else:
The quality of your management company will directly affect the success of your real estate investments. So when it's time to choose a firm to manage your property, have this list with you as you interview new firms and ask them:
Is your firm an Accredited Management Organization (AMO®) recognized by the Institute of Real Estate Management?
Are your property managers Certified Property Managers (CPM®) or CPM candidates?
Are you Accredited Residential Managers (ARM®) or ARM candidates?
Is your firm an active member of the local apartment association?
Do you have separate trust accounts for each client rather than a master trust account with multiple owners' funds?
Do you have an in-house accountant that reviews the monthly income and expense statements?
Do you have a one million dollar ($1,000,000) fidelity bond for all corporate employees?
Do you provide 24-hour on-call emergency maintenance service through a “live” answering service?
If maintenance is provided in-house or by an affiliated firm, do you only charge the actual cost of labor and materials with out any surcharges, mark-ups, administrative or other such add-ons?
Do you pass on any volume purchasing discounts fully and directly to clients for appliances, carpeting and other items without any mark-ups?
Do you maintain a separate Trust Account for each owner and/or property?
Who will actually manage the day-to-day activities at my property and are they well qualified?
Are all employees given pre-employment screenings that include thorough background checking by an independent pre-employment screening firm, plus drug and alcohol testing by a certified lab?
Do you carry Errors and Omissions coverage of at least $500,000, plus general liability coverage of at least $2,000,000?
Is your corporate broker's license current and without any history of violations? (Visit http://www.dre.ca.gov/ and click on "Check License Status" or call the California Department of Real Estate License Records Office at (619) 525-4356 to verify).
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