Guilty by Association: The Vantaca Podcast

Customer service can mean many things to many people. To Chris Morales, Director of Workflow at Heritage Property Management Services in Atlanta, Georgia, customer service is of the utmost importance when working in the community association management industry. Guilty by Association cohosts Shelly DeAntonio and BD Snow sit down with Chris to chat about her career journey, her customer service phi...

On this episode of Guilty by Association, cohosts Shelly DeAntonio and BD Snow are joined by James Bradley, Director of Business Development Strategy with Association Prime. Having spent time in many sectors of the community association management industry, banker Bradley provides his unique look at the trends and insights around the relationship between community association management companies...

Anyone who has spent time around a Vantaca employee will tell you -- we're big on company culture. Vantaca Director of People and Culture, Graham Elmore, stops by the Guilty by Association studio to chat with hosts Shelly DeAntonio and BD Snow about the lengths to which the Vantaca team has gone to build that winning company culture and the importance of finding the right people. As someone who wa...

Guilty By Association and host Shelly DeAntonio have a special guest on this week — Vantaca co-founder Dave Sweyer. In addition to being the co-founder of Vantaca, Dave is also the co-owner of CAMS, an industry leader in community association management since 1991. CAMS is headquartered in Wilmington, NC, with locations across the Carolinas. An engineer at heart, Dave chats with Shelly about every...

How did Vantaca come to exist? What deficiencies were there in the community association management industry that led our founders to build a better solution? Two of Vantaca’s original employees—Greg Rohde, Chief Growth Officer, and Lauren Godwin, Chief Customer Officer—talk about the early days of Vantaca, the impetus to create the software, and their own journeys within the CAM industry. Host Sh...

How can your previous career in a different industry help you become successful in a different industry? Scott Wolf, owner of Brigs in the Greater Boston Area, has a rich history in the hospitality industry that has molded himself and his company's core values. From learning customer service standards from one of the leading hospitality chains in the world he believes that understanding how to ser...

Evelyn Dufford with Association Services of Washington joins BD Snow and Shelly DeAntonio to chat about how the pandemic affected our industry, board education, areas of focus, and the infamous “Book of Komatsu.” Learn how the Association Services of Washington pivoted during and after the pandemic with their employees and their clients. How has the pandemic changed the landscape for where people...

What is it like to be the first client on new software in the industry? Lisa Turner with Silver Leaf Management Company in Loganville, Georgia sits down with BD Snow and Shelly DeAntonio to peel back the layers of the transition and evolution of Vantaca. Lisa takes us through Silver Leaf’s 5-year journey with Vantaca and how it has impacted her company, employees, and board members. Lisa also lets...

From IT to property manager, to Executive of PRM Chicago; Niall Dempsey taps into the importance of technology in the Community Management industry. Technology has allowed PRM Chicago to have an employee work-life balance, efficient training, analyzing data, and recruiting. Vantaca’s software has allowed Niall and PRM Chicago to customize workflows, and dictate the software for his company and not...