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Q. Qualifications and experience in managing associations:
A. Our firm has over 20 years experience in association management. .
Q. Number of associations under management:
A. We presently manage over 250 associations. These include homeowners associations as well as condominiums, office condominiums, and cooperative association.
Q. Names of a few of the properties under management:
A. Some of the properties we manage are:
In Bradenton: Fernwood, Pinehurst, Ironwood 3, Ironwood 8, San Michelle, Magnolia Crossing, Orchid Cove, Tara Preserve, Twelve Oaks at Tara, Mill Creek 7, Carolina Landings, Palm Grove,Villas of Tara, Sabal Bay, Lakeridge Falls
In Sarasota: The Isles on Palmer Ranch, Woodside Village East, San Palermo, Village Green, Bird Key, The Office Park, Tiziano 1 and 2, San Marco, Mira Lago, Landings South Two, Heritage Oaks, Huntington Pointe, Baywood Colony, Strathmore at Riverside, Stoney Brook Terraces, Stoney Brook Verandas, Forest Hills, The Landings Master, Willow Chase, Wellington Chase, Blackburn Harbour, Plaza De Flores, Fairway Woods, One Hundred Central, Village des Pins, Las Palmas, Serenade
On Siesta Key: Somerset Cove, Sandy Cove Three., Siesta Harbor, Crescent Arms, Sunrise Cove, Gulf & Bay Club Bay Side, Crescent Arms, Boca Siesta, The Pompano, The Inlet, Siesta Bayside, Sea Winds, The Pompano, Summercove, Sea Club II, Crescent Siesta Key, Fisherman's Cove, Big Pass, Polynesian Gardens, White Sands Village,Tortuga
On Longboat and Lido Keys: Fairway Bay 3, The Pierre, Longboat Yacht and Tennis, Martinique South, L'Elegance, Lido Ambassador, Lido Harbor Towers, Kingston Arms, Turtle Crawl, Saint Armand Towers North, Lido Ambassador
Englewood: Tangerine Woods, Foxwood, Edgewood Commercial, The Crossings, Sable Trace
In Venice: Bahia Vista Gulf, Point White Cap, Bella Costa, Gulf Shores, Bird Bay North, Southwood, Waterside I-IV, Waterford, Grassy Oaks, Chestnut Creek, Patio Homes, The Isles, Master Assoc. of Chestnut Creek, Palm Villas, Stonecastle, Harbour Lights, Holiday Condominiums
Q. Number of years in business and number of years as property manager:
A. We have been in business over twenty years, under the same ownership in Sarasota county.
Q. Number of CAM managers you employ:
A. We presently employ thirty-one licensed Community Association Managers.
Q. Number of properties per manager:
A. We expect our property managers to be able to handle between six to eight properties.
Q. Required qualifications and experience of property managers:
A. We hire experienced and licensed property managers. All CAM property managers are required to participate in career enhancement and continuing education classes. Several of our property Managers also hold licenses in related fields such as real estate.
Q. Attendance requirements of managers at meetings (board, committee, budget, etc.):
A. We expect our property managers to attend all Board of Directors meetings, and Membership meetings.
Q. Monthly management fee and expected additional charges:
A. Subject to unforeseen mitigating circumstances we expect your management fee to be as outlined in the full detailed proposal that we will provide.
We have no "add-on" or "hidden" charges. Our fee will include all regular office, mailing, copies, and postage excluding mass membership mailings or mass copying.
NO CHARGE FOR:
- Processing and setting up financial forms, questionnaires, and loan packages.
- Preparing and copying monthly financials.
- Certificates for transfer or estoppel letters.
- Typing, copying, and distributing minutes to the board.
- Indivudual copy service per page.
- Cellular telephone calls.
- Setting up additional accounts.
- Administering additional accounts.
- Purchasing certificates of deposits.
- Rolling over certificates of deposits.
- Changing association bank accounts.
- Renewing bank signature cards.
- "Backing up" computer on floppy disks or tape.
- Attending Board of Director meetings lasting more than two hours.
- Preparing for and meeting with governmental agencies over association property.
- Attending hearings for unit owner fines.
- Assisting or writing bid specifications.
- Reviewing requests by unit owners for modifications of common elements or their units.
- Assisting in the preparation of income tax returns.
- Assisting in the coordinating amendments to association documents including rules and regulations.
- The administration of special assessments.
- Tracking or expending reserve funds.
- Investigating, reporting, supervising the repair of insurance claims by association insurance agent.
Q. Reasons your company is better than other management companies:
A. There are many reasons why we believe that we provide better management services. Some are as follows:
- The low number of units and associations our property managers handle allows our managers more time for individual associations.
- Argus Property Management, Inc., decentralizes its services giving your Board of Directors, Committees, and owners better access to our staff.
- Our property managers are better trained in all aspects of management including maintenance, financial, and ministerial.
- Our senior property managers share in corporate profits and also have decision-making role.
- Our managers understand the differences between condominiums and homeowners associations. They understand the importance of lake maintenance for proper drainage and flood control purposes.
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