The National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM) is designed for real estate professionals who know the challenges of managing single-family and small residential properties. NARPM® offers a professional learning environment for owners of property management companies, property managers and their staff.
As a group, managers of small residential properties oversee billions of dollars worth of assets, yet have had little or no voice in such important matters as tax law, legal document requirements, accounting practices, insurance, building codes, zoning and utilities.
Prior to the inception of NARPM, there was no organization to represent this large group of property managers and their clients.
NARPM provides a trade organization for the residential property management industry. NARPM currently represents over 2,500 members comprised of real estate agents, brokers, managers and their employees.
DIY is a proud affiliate member of NARPM and we are always looking for opportunities to meet our clients. That’s why we’re excited to be headed to the National Association of Residential Property Managers’ Annual Convention & Trade Show October 13-15 in Seattle, Washington. Hope to see you there!
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I attended NARPM (National Association of Residential Property Managers) in Orlando last month and found it a great experience. Everyone that I talked to was friendly and very engaging. If you are in the property management industry, and have not checked the organization out, I recommend you do (http://www.narpm.org).
There is quite a positive vibration going on in the property management arena. And it is clear they are interested in staying on top of where technology is going and how it can benefit them. With an environment of growth and additional work loads, everyone was searching for ways to improve how they did things. Some people were attempting to use older software systems and using complicated interfaces to hold them together. It was very refreshing to see how much interest there was in online property management software. Essentially everyone I talked to was looking to move to the web so that they could gain the ability to have full access to the power of the internet and how it could help them advertize properties, give prospects easy methods of inquiring about the property, allow prospects to fill out online applications, and provide ways for residents to pay rent online.
It is interesting how, at times, I find myself struggling with change. I used to carry a Franklin planner and used it faithfully. Then several of my colleagues began to use Palm III devices. I used to kid them about how my pencil never ran out of power and how I would never use a PDA device. Now I use a PDA mobile phone and could not imagine using a paper planner. I guess it is called paradigm shift.
Web based property management software is the future and if you add in the fact it is more affordable and less costly to maintain. Well, we get our cake and eat it too.
Rob Crichlow
DIY Real Estate Solutions
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