Tip for Looking for Property Managers in your Area

[David Panzera]

Hi, All,

I've noticed since I joined BP this last year that sometimes a poster who's looking for a recommendation from the community on a good property manager gets no response. Thought I'd give a tip to people looking for a PM.

If you can't get a rec here (or even if you can!), check out NARPM.org. It's the National Association of Residential Property Managers that most of us (good) property managers belong to, and it's a good place to start to get a few company names for your first interviews.

If you go to the Home page and click "Search for a Member" it will give you the option to choose a state or a chapter. If your state/area has a chapter (bummer, ours doesn't), you can choose it and scroll down through the results to see names for the PMs in your area who are members of NARPM. 

For instance, here's a small screen shot of PMs listed for Dallas-Forth Worth area, where I've seen PM rec requests come from lately:

Then you'll at least get some names of companies who are association members to start with.

If your area doesn't have a chapter, like our Ohio, you can choose the "Location" option under that same "Search for a Member" section and it will list all of the PMs in the location range you specify.

I hope that's a helpful tip!

Cheers,

David Panzera