Phoenix and Scottsdale Property Management

If you look up at the top of the blog, there’s a menu bar with a choice for Property Management.  That link is there, because even though I don’t mention this very often, I am a property manager for homes in the Northeast part of the valley.  I wouldn’t say being a property manager is a glamorous, glorious, or even fun job that a REALTOR can take on, but I do personally own 9 rental homes in the Phoenix area, and thus managing property for other landlords began to make sense as sales dwindled to a near stand still 3 years ago.

My office is located right at the apex of the Loop 101 in North Scottsdale where it transitions from being a north/south freeway to east/west.  From my office, I can easily get to almost any portion of the northeast valley within 30 minutes, which is what I consider to be a requirement as a property manager.  I’ll explain why:  Often, I need to drop by a rental property with very little or no notice.  For example, when someone calls me after seeing the for rent sign in the yard.  A tenant prospect that is interested in seeing the inside of the home may wait 20-30 minutes, if I’m able to I rush over to let them in.  But they won’t wait an hour, or even 45 minutes.  At best, in cases where the home is further than 30 minutes away, a tenant prospect will agree to make an appointment for some time later.  Here though, we take the big risk that the tenant prospect will simply rent the next house they see…as the price and features of many rentals in a given area are really quite similar, the difference can quite literally be the house they see first.

Another reason I keep homes that I manage within 30 minutes, is because if there is a problem at the home that requires my presence (like the busted circuit breaker that wouldn’t reset yesterday or the air filters that needed changing the day before), I don’t want my schedule and needing to carve out 2 or 3 hrs of drive time, just to get to a rental property, to be the reason something important couldn’t be dealt with today, but had to wait until tomorrow.  When you manage 50+ homes, having an outlier that can potentially take 2+ hours in drive time to visit, simply isn’t practical.

For homes within my feasibility range (Tempe, most of Phoenix, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and Fountain Hills), if you are looking for a property manager, I’d love to talk to you about what I do, and how I might be able to help.  In the mean time, feel free to click on that property management menu link, and check out what I do, and how I might be able to help you if you own are considering owning a rental property in the Phoenix area.

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