March 10, 2011

Prospective Tenant Tip | Be Prepared!


This 2011 rental market is proving to be a competitive one in the more moderately priced ranges. A tip I can offer prospective renters is to get your ducks in a row and have your application packet ready to go. When you find the property you would like to rent, you won’t have to scramble to get your information together and risk losing out to a more prepared applicant. Much better to view a property and hand the agent or owner your application on the spot. Not only will that put you in the #1 position to secure the property, but it will create a very good impression on the owner/agent. You can find an application in addition to instructions on putting together an application packet on the PRANDI website at www.prandiprop.com.

March 9, 2011

Official Office Titles

PRANDI Property Management, Inc., CRMC
www.prandiprop.com

We have been very busy in our office in the last couple of months. We opened our second office on Bridgeway in Sausalito to better serve our Southern Marin clients this past year. We redesigned our website, including major changes in our management software, company colors as well as logo layout. We re-organized our office staff, making our teams more efficient and organized to improve our customer service and response times to your calls and emails. We solidified PRANDI staff titles, to help clarify company roles and to give you a better definition of what we really do.

This last change, our personal employee titles, were closely examined and decided upon. A title defines a persons position within the company and we wanted that title to be clear and concise.

Please, meet the PRANDI Property Management Team:

Melissa Prandi, RMP, MPM | President & CEO

Reidun Waage | Client Accounting Manager

Lisa Doughty | Office Coordinator

Barbara Burdick | Executive Relocation & Leasing Agent

Team 1:
Matt Borries | Property Manager & Leasing Agent
Nikki Maida | Assistant Property Manager

Team 2:
Christine Goodin, RMP | Senior Property Manager & Leasing Agent
Cristy Roberts | Assistant Property Manager

Team 3:
Dana Sansing-Esquibel | Senior Property Manager & Leasing Agent
Roxie Mikolon, CSS | Assistant Property Manager

Marketing Team:
Erin Leidy | Director of Business Development & Marketing
Kaylee Carroll | Brand Marketing Specialist

March 1, 2011

Project Re:Brand | Part 2

The logo is very important for any company. Here at PRANDI, we always double check to make sure our image, and in essence our “brand,” is as consistent as possible. We want our look to be noticed and recognizable. We want people to know our name and see us as the respected leaders we strive to be, in Marin’s leasing and property management field. We want people to see our logo and say “Let’s call PRANDI!”

To ensure our brand has maximum impact, we are sure to cover all of our bases, and are always as consistent as possible. Our logo and our image is our company’s visual identity! The fonts, color, use of illustration/ pictures, as well as our taglines are all a major part of this. Our brand is spread across our marketing, in such things as on our website, newspapers, and other advertisements. But there is so much more involved in a “brand.”

Employees, for instance, are the most important ambassadors Melissa Prandi, MPM has for her company. We are reflections of the brand she has created. We are the faces of PRANDI.

Part of our branding is how our employees interact and work with our customers. Great customer service keeps a person coming back for more – which means that if we do a great job, not only will they want to work with us again, but they might even recommend PRANDI to others. We love to partner with people, whether they are our valuable owners, contractors/ vendors, or outside agents. We love to know how our service worked out as a whole, and hear how we can improve. We love to know how we are doing as a company.

All feedback is valuable. If we’ve given you great service, this is always a treat to hear; but if we need to improve some part of our company to better serve others in the future, we cannot progress unless we have this information to work from! We need this feedback to better the identity we are presenting to the community.

Which leads me to: we recently ran a “February is for Feedback!” program with our current tenants, asking them to tell us how we are doing in their eyes. We also asked our owners to fill out an e-survey to rate PRANDI on various topics and give us additional feedback that way as well. Now, we’re reaching out to you, our readers. If you have anything to say about our company, that you think we should hear, please be sure to let us know. You can even email me directly: prandi@prandiprop.com. I would love to know how we are holding up as a complete PRANDI package. If you ask me to keep something completely anonymous, I will certainly respect that request. Thank you!