OUR CLIENTS
COME FIRST
VISION
Our clients come first. When we serve our clients well our success will follow…our people and our reputation are our assets and if we lose vision of any of these, it is the most difficult to restore.
Michael H. Schuss, Owner & CEO
VISION
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LEADING
THE WAY
We are a locally owned Real Estate Service Company that has been active in Greater Vancouver, Victoria, Whistler and the Interior of British Columbia since 1997, providing highly disciplined services of property management, as well as sales and leasing of all types of properties including strata, residential, retail, office, industrial, and mixed-use portfolios.
We have enjoyed a very rapid level of growth and have become one of the most active property management firms in Canada, with over 13 million square feet, including in excess of 13,500 residential suites, with a total value of over $4 billion dollars currently under management. AWM is bonded, insured and licensed in accordance with the Real Estate Services Act of BC and enjoys long standing active membership in many industry associations.
STRATA
STRATA
MANAGEMENT
AWM currently manages over 200 properties in excess of 13,000 residential suites with single building accounts consisting of up to 500 suites, from townhomes to low and high rise buildings. We work efficiently and effectively with Strata Corporations through the opera-tional demands of the property to ensure the viability of the asset, not just for the immediate future, but for years to come – considering both the physical and financial requirements.
We have specially designed technologically advanced manage-ment systems to streamline operations including 24-hour live agent services. Our fully automated accounting software and interactive community hosting services provides for effective and accurate reporting of client funds and capital assets. We have developed effective systems that incorporate the Strata Property Act and provide strategic value and synergy with our management operations to provide the highest level of service to our clients.
RESIDENTIAL
RENTALS
AWM provides professional rental property leasing and manage- ment services, with our personalized service tailored to meet your specific needs and objectives. Our marketing experience and tenant selection process will help to achieve the best possible rents and find the most qualified tenant. Through our commitment to providing the highest level of service within the industry, we have streamlined our property management services, ensuring a more prompt rent collection procedure, a fully electronic payment remittance system, and email reporting of monthly financial information.
Our commitment to excellence and professional educational standards as well as responsiveness to market forces, ensures that your property will be well represented. Our property managers are licensed under the Real Estate Services Act of BC.
COMMERCIAL
SERVICES
AWM provides full service leasing and management for office, retail, multi-use and industrial properties and are dedicated to fulfill the required needs of the commercial investor, handling matters of financing, leasing, income analysis, capital cost budgeting and monthly financial reporting. We understand and implement specific operating measures that ensure sustained occupancy of these commercial properties and take into account the needs of both the tenants and investment returns sought by our clients. A proactive approach to the physical management of the property is employed with scheduled preventative maintenance, 24-hour live agent response measures and advance management operating systems.
Our extensive management experience encompasses neighbour- hood shopping centres to regional malls, with tenants such as Save-On-Foods, London Drugs, Canadian Tire, Future Shop, Star-bucks, McDonald’s, Subway, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal and CIBC. Since 1997, we have managed in excess of 2 million square feet of retail, 250,000 square feet of office space and 400,000 square feet of industrial property.
INTERACTIVE
RESOURCES
Our clients come first. AWM is committed to providing clients with the most up-to-date information by offering ”a management office that never closes”.
We provide an online, fully automated and interactive com- munity website for each of our properties to keep you connected with instant access to information 24 hours a day by visiting us at www.awmalliance.com. Our property management system stream-lines communication and provides online management capabilities for strata councils, owners, residents and tenants throughout all
our property types. This assures the ease of obtaining information, including notices, bylaws, meeting minutes, calendars, financial statements and service requests. By providing owners and ten-ants 24/7 online access to paperless statements and reports in real time, we’ve reduced our carbon footprint in providing enviro-friendly service through state of the art automated property management and tenant leasing tools.
Our 24-hour live agent number gives our clients immediate information over the phone, including emergency response services. With offices located in Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Victoria and Whistler, our staff of over 50 is also available in a nearby vicinity offering personal service with a true community connection.
OUR TEAM
With over 150 years of combined experience, our strength has been servicing beyond the needs of our clients by assembling the strongest and most experienced management team in the industry. Our staff of over 50 accredited and experienced professionals, from licensed Property and Strata Managers to our accounting and administrative staff are dedicated to providing the highest level of hands-on personal service combined with advanced intuitive technological systems.
We take pride in our teamwork approach and keeping abreast of the latest technology enhancements and industry advancements. Strong association through memberships within our industry maintains the ability for our team to be both effective and proficient.
MEMBERSHIPS &
ASSOCIATIONS
We are an active member in many associations and as a result stay focused on the continued changes within our Real Estate industry. Our team receives regular updates of these changes by attending the many seminars, workshops and continuing education programs offered by these associations annually.
Our accounting team is led by designated professionals who are members of the Certified General Accountant’s Association (CGA).
ACCREDITED BUSINESS
COMMUNITY
Plan Canada
We feel that it is important to recognize that in Canada we are blessed and that our children have access to more than what is essential for a healthy life.
We support PLAN and are proud of our commitment to support and care for Joviya and her family in Uganda. For more information, please visit PLAN at www.plancanada.ca
BC Children’s Hospital and Children’s Wish Foundation
We are proud of the current relationship with the Children’s Wish Foundation and the Children’s Hospital Foundation of BC. Over the past several years, we have donated significantly each year to these very important Foundations that care for those that need it most – our children.
Vancouver Head Office
#401-958 West 8th Avenue Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1E5
Tel: 604.685.3227 Fax: 604.893.1721
Fraser Valley Office
#214-6820-188th Street Surrey, BC, V4N 3G6 Tel: 604.685.3227 Fax: 604.893.1721 Victoria Office #100-1803 Douglas Street Victoria, BC, V8T 5C3 Tel: 250.388.9967 Fax: 250.388.9997 Whistler Office
#212-1200 Alpha Lake Road Whistler, BC, V0N 1B1 Tel: 604.935.3227 Fax: 604.893.1721
www.awmalliance.com