All Forum Posts by: Adam Hutchison

Fellow BPers,

A2Z has been a breath of fresh air compared to my previous property manager, so far so good!

@Adam Hutchison I spent several hours on the phone with several companies (Milltown, VP, Ruhl/Ruhl, A2Z) and have decided to move my units over to A2Z. They seem like a good fit for our portfolio. The frustrating thing is there's really no way to put items in a contract that have forced us to leave McDonnell: 1) have good communication, or 2) turn a unit in a timely manner. So time will tell if their actions live up to their sales pitch from our discussion. Wish me luck!

@Adam Hutchison I spent several hours on the phone with several companies (Milltown, VP, Ruhl/Ruhl, A2Z) and have decided to move my units over to A2Z. They seem like a good fit for our portfolio. The frustrating thing is there's really no way to put items in a contract that have forced us to leave McDonnell: 1) have good communication, or 2) turn a unit in a timely manner. So time will tell if their actions live up to their sales pitch from our discussion. Wish me luck!

@Adam Hutchison You guessed it, I've been with McDonnell for roughly a year now. I don't want to throw them entirely under the bus, they do some things well, but overall communication and time it takes to turn a unit are not acceptable and have me looking elsewhere.

@Sean L. @Bryan O. @Adam Hutchison

I have started investing in the Davenport, IA, area in the last year. I like the potential return the pro-forma shows, but I've been burned a couple of times already with expensive turnover, tenants leaving a mess and having to pay thousands $ to remove the junk and prep the unit for new tenants. Also my property management company says they are having trouble hiring good people so they are taking 2-3 months to turn a unit and prepare for the next tenant.

I'm really frustrated with this slow turn time. Also this firm has pretty poor communication, they seem generally unorganized. One of my buildings is a 4-plex, and they were somehow confused with the number of units and were only advertising for 3 of them. 9 months after buying the building only 2 units are rented out.

I'm interested in hearing others feedback about the Quad Cities market. Are people seeing high % of tenants leaving a disaster behind when they move out? Are people having trouble filling their vacancies? I'm not sure if these are symptoms of the market or instead of a poor property manager.

@Adam Hutchison we are open! I see you emailed us on 6/30/2020 and Derek with our sales team responded on 7/1/2020 at 6:00 p.m. CST. Let us know if you do not see the response. He sent you our info packet that helps answer many questions. We have orders for over 2,100 meters at the moment so things are bit slower on responses than usual as we are putting all efforts into existing customers and fulfilling orders on time.