Action Properties Agency, LLC

Welcome to APA blogs.  The first question I expect you all to be asking is "What could we possibly have to blog about?"  Well let's start with who I am.

My name is Kenny, I went to school in Kirksville, MO (Truman State) and graduated in 2006.  Thanks to a stroke of luck, and some very generous parents, I was able to buy a house my freshman year of college.  You know how some people say they get the "ski bug?"  Well I got the house bug.  By an even bigger stroke of luck, I managed to get a once in a lifetime type of job straight out of high school, which let me buy more houses while I was still in college.

I learned two very fortuitous things while in college.  The first one is, I can drink like a fish.  A fact that has won me a bet or two (all good stories) in my post college days.  The second is that it's a lot of work to manage properties.  Answering random calls, trying to find tenants, collect rent, etc etc.  It's something I would only recommend for an incredibly mature, patient, and dedicated college student (of which most aren't and I certainly wasn't).

As luck (there's that word again) would have it, I had to get some work done on a property and called virtually every contractor in town.  Just as I was about to give up a gal picked up who turned out to be the three things that I wasn't: mature, patient, and dedicated.  To put a little icing on the cake, she was just starting her own property management company and was looking for a client.  That gal was Carol

In a former life, Carol was a newspaper gal.  I can't begin to describe her properly, so I'll let some recent press she got do it for me here.  For those of you who can do the math, I wasn't lying when I said she was "mature."

We hit it off, and before I left Kirksville, Carol was my Property Manager.  My life got a whole lot easier and I started focusing on.... well let's just call it the "Monopoly" aspect of buying properties and she focused on the "Managing" aspect of owning properties.  Yes, she got the harder job.

A lot has transpired since then, we've become partners on what became known as Action Properties Agency and we've hire a lot of great people.  Tina, John, Dawn, and Caitlin thanks for all your work.  Things are really humming along these days  To the point that I felt comfortable moving to London and we started a new branch in South Bend Indiana (home of Notre Dame).


So, I still haven't answered the question I posed at the beginning of this post: "What do we possibly have to blog about?"  Clearly, I'm not a great writer, so it's not just a chance to showcase my prowess.

I still have the real estate bug, but now I also have the property management bug.  We have a very ambitious goal at APA is to grow a truly great company that has locations all across the globe (right now we're still focusing on the US).  It's a tall order, and not a single one of us claims we have a clear vision of how it's going to work.  I want a history of the issues we faced (and overcame).  I want someone to be able to read this history and know exactly who we are and where we came from.  But mostly, I want to use this as a sounding board to get input/advice from any of you who care to chime in on how we can be doing things better.

Cheers,

Kenny