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What's New at Chandler Properties

24-Aug-2006 — Our Office Building Restoration

Our Queen Anne Victorian Office Building has just had a major face lift. We have owned our office building since 1990; and since it is almost one hundred years old and has not had a major restoration done before, it was ready for some loving attention.

Magic Brush, who specializes in restoring Victorian buildings in San Francisco, did the work. All the paint was stripped off, and 45 new windows were installed along with all new sheet metal that surrounded the architectural features. New plaster molds were made to replace missing trim and where necessary, new brackets and corbels were made to replace missing or damaged ones.

Seven colors were selected and five coats of paint were applied to all the new wood and trim. Dry rot was removed and repaired, and all the wood was brought up to a top standard.

To see the results, just click over to our contact page or better still, drive by. We are very proud of the results, and we think we have helped our neighborhood to be even more beautiful.

31-Jul-2006 — New Chandler Properties Signage

For many years we have hung For Rent signs on our buildings with vacancies. Recently, we have added one more – a Managed By signs.

Once the vacancy is filled, the For Rent sign is removed and replaced with a Managed By Chandler Properties sign that lists our telephone number.

We are now getting calls from renters even when we don’t have a vacancy. The renter sees our Managed By sign and calls in to tell us he or she would like to be notified when there is a vacancy at the building.

This gives us a list of good candidates for our next vacancy and speeds up the renting of the next unit. We also have found that when there is an emergency, our phone number is front and center, making it easier for the tenants to call us without searching for a number.

Of course, we like to see our signs hanging on all our buildings because we are very proud of them. But the signs serve us very well in our marketing efforts for vacancies and also, when an emergency occurs.

17-Jul-2006 — Our Rental Department

We have been managing large apartment buildings in San Francisco for over 27 years. Two years ago we decided to open a Rental Department so that we could manage buildings with 15 units or less.

In San Francisco, buildings with 16 units and above are required to have a Resident Manager living on site. However, a building 15 units and below does not require a Resident Manager living in the building.

We wanted to make sure all our smaller buildings had a rental department to handle their vacancies. Many of our competitors ask the Property Manager to show the units in small buildings. The problem with that is the Property Manager has a full portfolio of buildings to manage and may not have time to show the vacancies.

Our decision to manage smaller buildings and have our Rental Department handle all vacancy showings has been one of our best decisions. Our Property Manager gets the unit ready to show,  sets the rental price and then turns the vacancy over to our Rental Department. This allows the Property Manager to manage and our Rental Agent to show the unit, and everyone is doing what they do best.

Our vacancies get rented very fast and at the right price. Of course, we love to manage our large apartment buildings, and now we are really having a lot of fun developing our small apartment building division and our rental department.