The Property Management Show

Your team represents your property management business, and today we’re talking about the importance of building and keeping a great property management team with Melissa Prandi, of Prandi Property Management. Many of her employees have been with her for 10 years or longer, and she’s quick to tell us that having the best team she’s ever had provides confidence and opportunities for growth. Where W...

Chrysztyna Rowek is the owner of Lighthouse Cove Property Management in Washington State and an active member of NARPM. She has gone from cleaning houses to buying/acquiring property management companies, and she joined us on The Property Management Show to share her experiences and the lessons she has learned along the way. Background: Buying Lighthouse Cove Property Management Chrysztyna likes t...

As the owner of a property management company, have you thought of your own exit strategy yet? Whether you’ve already chosen your path, or you’re still unsure about the best option, it’s worth listening to how Stephanie Gordon did it. If you don’t know Stephanie Gordon yet, you should. She is the founder and CEO of Gordon Property Management in San Francisco , and she has been a...

If The Property Management Show looks and sounds a bit different this time around, it’s because the podcast has new hosts. Marie Liamzon is the Director of Product Development at Fourandhalf and Brittany Stephens is the Director of Client Success at Fourandhalf. They got together with Sandy Highland of Sacramento Delta Property Management just after PM Grow to talk about the overarching theme of t...

Small property management businesses have a lot of opportunities, even as they’re competing with larger companies. As a small business in the property management space, you have a lot of unique abilities, such as your talent for providing local service. The local knowledge you possess is irreplaceable, and it takes those big businesses some time to understand the local dynamics in your city and th...

Scott Fritz believes that if you are a property management business owner and you stay in that business, your company will be worth less than it would be if you train your company to work without you. He joins Alex on The Property Management Show this week to discuss the different between an entrepreneur and a business owner, and what you can do to work less but produce more . Scott Fritz: Angel I...

Futurescaping and tracking where the property management industry is going has been interesting over the last few years. A lot of things are coming to a head, and on The Property Management Show podcast, we think it’s important to invite guests who are running big businesses. When our small business partners engage with our big business partners, we can all learn a lot and figure out where our ind...

How can you grow your property management business by opening new locations? A lot of listeners have called and written with this question, wanting to know how to be successful in a new market without having to acquire another property management company. Jason Rose was highly recommended when I asked for help with this topic. He’s from Brisbane, Australia, and he’s joining us today to talk about...

Over the last eight years, we’ve helped more than 500 property management companies grow their business by helping them develop a sound and effective marketing strategy . We’ve also been busy growing Fourandhalf. Once we hit around $2 million in revenue, the systems we had in place ceased to meet the demands of our clients and our business. Our initial instinct was to throw people at problems. Thi...

Scott Brady, owner of Progressive Property Management , had 52 doors in 2013. Now, his company manages about 1,052 doors, and he plans to grow to 3,100 units by 2020. We think he’ll do it. Today, he’s joining us on The Property Management Show podcast to talk about executing the kind of growth that most property management companies only dream about. Growing with Good Systems Scott says that while...

On our first episode of the year, The Property Management Show wants to start by identifying what’s happening in the property management industry. This industry has accelerated at an extreme rate. We’ve talked about it multiple times, and new things continue to happen. For example, not only are private equity backers getting into the property management business, we’re also seeing Tier One Venture...

We’ve made it to the end of 2018, and on this year’s final episode of The Property Management Show, we’re setting you up to take full advantage of the opportunities available in 2019. Think about the journey we’ve traveled over the last few years. In 2017, we focused property managers on the idea of sales and marketing and how it can impact and grow a property management business. In 2018, we told...

Here at Fourandhalf, we love our sixth-floor office that looks out over Silicon Valley, and we find it helpful to have everyone in the same place. But, we often wonder whether it would be possible to build a property management business that is completely virtual. The Property Management Show received an email from a listener named Nicholas who wanted to know if it would be possible to start and r...

On The Property Management Show, we love helping people in the industry learn from the successes and failures of property management business owners. The feedback we’ve received on our How I Did It series has been phenomenal, so we’re bringing you another episode today. Our guests are Kristin and Shawn Johnson, and they run a successful property management business out of Farmington, New Mexico, c...

The Property Management Show is based in Silicon Valley, and the beauty of our location is that we get to meet entrepreneurs driving property management innovation. Today, our guest is Daniel Shaked, the founder of Home365. This is a company that sells maintenance end-to-end through technology, specifically using artificial intelligence (A.I.) and their own network of service providers for one fla...

How I Did It: Lisa Wise Discusses Property Management Growth Today on The Property Management Show, we’re talking to Lisa Wise, who runs a boutique property management company called Nest DC. She spoke at PM Grow Summit in 2017, and she’ll speak again in 2019, so if you’re curious about the conference or you haven’t bought tickets yet, go to pmgrowsummit.com . It’s the perfect event for property m...

Mike Catalano and Steve Rozenberg joined Alex on The Property Management Show to talk about growth through acquisitions. Mike Catalano is one of the most experienced property management owners to talk about acquisitions, and Steve Rozenberg runs a tightly systemized company and is thinking about acquisitions as part of his growth strategy. Alex and Mike spent some time talking about acquisitions i...

On this episode of The Property Management Show, we’re talking to a guest about fiscally responsible growth after he emailed Alex a response to the podcast about Mynd.co and Doug Brien, who received a lot of venture-backed funding to grow a property management business. Benton Cotter remarked that it was a great interview, but thought our audience should know that it’s possible to grow a property...

Are you still passionate about property management? If you’re not, you may be driving away business. Today on The Property Management Show, we talk to Steve Welty, owner of the hugely successful Good Life Property Management . There’s a lot to discuss, from how to become competitive in a new market to the importance of reputation to – barbers. Alex can’t go back to his barber because his barber ha...

On The Property Management Show, we’re starting a new series called How I Did It,  which focuses on property management success stories. The goal is to empower property management business owners with success stories from those who have done it. We all have challenges when it comes to running our businesses, and in this series, my guests will share how they overcame those struggles. We’re going to...

Thank you for joining us for another episode of The Property Management Show. Today, we’re talking to Doug Brien, who is the co-founder and CEO of Mynd.co, a property management startup. Before we talk about his innovative new property management platform, there are a few other things you need to know about Doug. First, he’s a former NFL kicker who went to the Super Bowl with the San Francisco 49e...

Today on The Property Management Show,  Robert Locke is joining us to talk about how to structure your business without growing pains. This probably sounds impossible, but Robert is going to help us elevate the conversation and explain some BIG IDEAS. Why We Should Learn from Robert Locke Robert started his property management company 35 years ago with 50 units. He is candid about having made all...

In this episode of The Property Management Show, we’re talking about top-line growth versus bottom line performance in your property management company. There’s a belief that’s accepted among business owners that you suffocate without profit. However, it’s also possible that you can suffocate without healthy top-line growth. Profit may be achievable, but top-line growth is possibly more meaningful...

This week on The Property Management Show podcast, we’re treated to an amazing entrepreneur who has been doing property management for 36 years. We’re talking to Melissa Prandi, the owner of Prandi Property Management, and we’re picking her brain for some wisdom on running a property management business successfully.     Founding Story: Prandi Property Management in Marin County   Melissa started ...

Welcome to another episode of The Property Management Show. We’re glad you’re participating and providing us with feedback, because we see a need for quality information that will help you take a bite out of the huge opportunity that’s out there. As some of you know, 75 percent of the rental properties in the U.S. are self-managed. We want to help property managers tap into this large self-managem...