Hi!  My name is Shawna, and I created this company keeping in                                 mind the experiences I've had over the years as a tenant, a                            homeowner, an investor, and a property manager.  

 

 

Lee's Summit, Missouri is my home town, and all of my immediate family lives in or around there.  After graduating from Lee's Summit North High School, I moved to  Houston, Texas, where I graduated from Rice University with a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Geophysics.  I worked in Texas for the oil and gas industry for years, purchasing my first single family home in 2006 as my primary residence.  with that property, i learned the ropes of homeownership and picked up quite a few handy skills along the way. Eventually I sold that home and purchased another, where i lived for a few years before converting it to a rental.   in the next five years or so, i purchased two more investment properties and managed all three on my own.  

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i eventually moved to Portland, Oregon, where I continued to manage my properties in Texas from there.  it was then that I started to learn the challenges of managing properties remotely.  I was asking friends and neighbors to keep tabs and felt the need to travel back to Houston frequently, all of which was an inconvenience for everyone involved, and expensive!

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In Portland, I began working for a small property management company that specialized in high-end luxury homes.  Many of our clients were out of state or country, and many of our tenants were professional athletes and executives.  I led the maintenance department and grew it considerably using the latest technologies and automation.  I learned extremely valuable skills in this job, most of which focused on the balance of keeping tenants happy in an affordable way for the property owners.  Landlord/tenant laws out there are EXTREMELY strict and protective of tenants.  In addition, with the seasons and climate challenges of the Pacific NorthWest, I gained an appreciation for seasonal preventative maintenance and weatherproofing.

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I moved back to Lee's Summit in 2020.  Since then, i've observed that there is a big gap in affordable and reputable property management companies that represent single family homes.  Therefore, I have designed this business to help fill that gap.