One of the staples in any successful business is listening to the people that they serve. Their feedback is crucial in helping a business make adjustments where they need to be made. The positive feedback also allows to show and confirm what’s working well.
Recently, we’ve instituted a software that allows our current client base to share their feedback with us, on both the tenant’s and property owners side. It’s a nice way for us to not only get our positive feedback in review format for potential customers to read, it certainly gives our staff a moral boost!
Overwhelmingly, our feedback has been extremely positive. Clients have taken the time to leave reviews and messages to us that have been extremely detailed and make a point of sharing exactly why they enjoy our services.
Undoubtedly, property management is a business that proves very difficult in getting positive feedback. This simply boils down to the nature of the business. Playing a middle man role between landlord and tenant can be difficult, as blame and frustration easily can be directed at us when we are simply conveying messages. Now, we’ve become excellent intermediaries over the years so it wasn’t a surprise to us that the vast majority of our feedback has been excellent.
With that being said, we took a look at the negative notes that were helpfully critical that offered a nice outside perspective on how we can improve what we do. Taking a step back and being able to discuss how to improve a process or procedure is a great way to stay ahead of the game. Specifically, one of these instances involved how online maintenance requests are done, which has been streamlined into a more efficient process.
In one instance, an issue was pointed out that was a true mistake on our part during a staff switch, and we were happy to compensate that property owner and things have been smooth since 🙂
We thank those that have shared their feedback with is as it truly does help us be the best that we can be!
Here are a few of our recent positive reviews:
“I have been using Douglas Realty for property management services for the last 7 months and would like to say their service is excellent! I am a Canadian investor [I am a CPA-CA by trade] and Douglas Realty has done a wonderful job in all of the following areas: 1. Marketing my North Port, Florida investment property; 2. Finding a suitable tenant including providing adequate due diligence to help me make my decision on the tenant they located; 3. Providing a “full proof” legal lease which protects the property owner 4. Providing an on-line “owner portal” reporting medium which gives complete transparency for the lease payment and all other expenses; 5. Charging a reasonable property management fee; 6. Provide outstanding on-going support via their staff including, Donna Allen, Kevin Haag [the owner], Lori, Joe Maggio. All return my calls within 24 hours and have the answers to all of my questions [and as a CPA-CA, I have a lot of them!]. 7. Transferring the lease payments to my bank account on a timely basis. Overall, I would highly recommend Douglas Realty for property management services for the reasons above. In addition, I would be happy to speak to any potential client of Douglas as a reference – simply ask Donna and we will connect. Thank you Douglas Realty and the team! You have done an outstanding job and I am completely satisfied to date!”
“Douglas has managed my property for over 5 years and they’ve been great. Good people to work with, very prompt and follow through with maintenance issues has been excellent.”
“Douglas Realty Property Mgt. has been very responsive in identifying and keeping great tenants. They have a great team to respond to needed repairs and changes. They are also responsive in providing suggested maintenance needs.”
And here’s just a small sample of how many positive feedback messages we’ve received!
Time for us to keep up the good work!
-Christian