{"id":16579,"date":"2015-04-08T20:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T00:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2015\/04\/property-management-groups-handle-many-tasks-taking-burden-off-owners.html"},"modified":"2015-04-08T20:21:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T00:21:50","slug":"property-management-groups-handle-many-tasks-taking-burden-off-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2015\/04\/property-management-groups-handle-many-tasks-taking-burden-off-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Management Groups Handle Many Tasks, Taking Burden Off Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"img-left\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"property management vc.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2015\/04\/property20management20vc.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"199\" width=\"150\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"img-caption\">This property at 48 Union Ave. in Saratoga Springs is among those managed by M-CAP\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>BY BARBARA PINCKNEY<\/p>\n<p>The extreme weather of the past winter illustrates<br \/>\njust how difficult being a property manager<br \/>\ncan be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Property management is a 24\/7 job and is often<br \/>\nnot glamorous,&#8221; said Alan Oppenheim, principal in<br \/>\nACO Property Advisors Inc. of Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roof leaks and parking lot &#8216;slip and falls&#8217; were<br \/>\nsome of the expected horrors from this past winter.<br \/>\nIt was not at all uncommon to be up on a building<br \/>\nroof fighting ice dams with a variety of power tools<br \/>\nat all hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other property managers spoke of heating issues,<br \/>\nsnow removal and &#8220;frozen pipes and all the<br \/>\nfun stuff that goes with that.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a mess,&#8221; said Ash Anand, owner of the Lotus<br \/>\nSupport Services in Warrensburg.<\/p>\n<p>But if the winter made it hard to be a property<br \/>\nmanager, it also made it clear just why owners<br \/>\nof commercial and residential properties would<br \/>\nwant to hire one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More and more people are realizing that,<br \/>\nwhether it is extreme weather or something else,<br \/>\neverything has an effect on how a property is<br \/>\nmanaged today,&#8221; Anand said. &#8220;I look at it as peace<br \/>\nof mind because just because someone owns a<br \/>\nproperty, does not mean that they understand<br \/>\nconstruction or any related items to do with the<br \/>\nmaintenance of it. So [the property management<br \/>\nbusiness] is only growing, that I can tell you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Property management is not all about fighting<br \/>\nice dams and mounds of snow. Many of the responsibilities<br \/>\nare more routine, such as collecting rents<br \/>\nand dues, hiring vendors and contractors, dealing<br \/>\nwith tenant issues and paying the bills.<\/p>\n<p>Augustus Williams, principal in Management-<br \/>\nConsulting and Administrative Processing Inc., or<br \/>\nM-CAP, an 18-month-old, family owned company<br \/>\nin Saratoga Springs, is in the niche business of<br \/>\nmanaging condominium and townhouse properties<br \/>\nfor owners&#8217; associations. He described the<br \/>\ncompany&#8217;s responsibilities as being &#8220;from A to Z.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is exterior maintenance, pressure washing.<br \/>\nThere is lawn care, sprinkler systems, trash<br \/>\ngoing out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We collect dues from the<br \/>\nowners every month and make bank deposits. We pay the light bill for the common areas, we pay the<br \/>\nphone bill for the lines attached to safety systems<br \/>\n&#8230; So we are handling everything that is required<br \/>\nfor the building. We walk through once a week, we<br \/>\nmake sure everything is safe and we cover them so<br \/>\nthey have a comfortable lifestyle without having<br \/>\nto worry who is going to mow the lawn this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oppenheim, who has been a property manager<br \/>\nfor 20 years, handles commercial properties<br \/>\nthroughout upstate New York. These range from<br \/>\na 20,000-square-foot commercial office building<br \/>\nto a former lakefront resort. He said &#8220;typical&#8221;<br \/>\nservices for a commercial building include reviewing<br \/>\nleases, assessing potential tenants, collecting<br \/>\nrent, implementing maintenance and financial<br \/>\nmanagement systems, hiring vendors and making<br \/>\nannual budgets.<\/p>\n<p>The job also entails making routine inspections<br \/>\nof the property as well as ongoing assessments<br \/>\nof the physical plant and the need for capital<br \/>\nimprovements.<\/p>\n<p>Anand, whose company manages about 60<br \/>\ncommercial and residential properties, including<br \/>\nhotels and vacation homes, agreed that a big part<br \/>\nof the job involves saving the owner money by<br \/>\nkeeping on top of things &#8220;that could be a bigger<br \/>\nproblem tomorrow. This could be electrical, this<br \/>\ncould be plumbing, overall construction, landscaping,<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams said this is where his background&#8211;he<br \/>\nwas in construction for 40 years&#8211;comes into play.<br \/>\n&#8220;We know what is going to take place three<br \/>\nyears from now and five years from now,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We know, for example, that three years from now<br \/>\nwe are going to have to be painting the structural<br \/>\nsteel. So we try to stay ahead of the curve by providing<br \/>\nthe [association] board with a plan to do<br \/>\nthe work two years ahead of time. That&#8217;s really the<br \/>\nchallenge&#8211;keeping ahead of the curve, knowing<br \/>\nwhat is going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is the property manager&#8217;s job to not only provide<br \/>\na long-range plan for ongoing maintenance,<br \/>\nbut to budget and make sure the money is there<br \/>\nto support necessary projects.<\/p>\n<p>But, as this winter proved, there will always<br \/>\nbe surprises. These may be as mundane as leaky<br \/>\ntoilets, as troublesome as frozen pipes or as annoying<br \/>\nas security system alarm calls in the middle of<br \/>\nthe night&#8211;which require a trip to the property,<br \/>\neven for false alarms.<\/p>\n<p>Which, again, is why owners hire property<br \/>\nmanagers.<br \/>\n&#8220;Why go through those headaches if you can<br \/>\ngive it to somebody else and rest in peace?&#8221;<br \/>\nAnand said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This property at 48 Union Ave. in Saratoga Springs is among those managed by M-CAP BY BARBARA PINCKNEY The extreme weather of the past winter illustrates just how difficult being a property manager can be. &#8220;Property management is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-16579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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