SUE ELLEN SEXTON, SENIOR PROPERTY MANAGER - TAMPA
Sue Ellen Sexton currently manages the M West Holdings, LLC portfolio in Florida where she is responsible for a diverse assemblage of properties. Immediately prior to joining M West, Ms Sexton managed a 19-story Class A building in Tampa’s CBD owned by a private family trust. Ms Sexton has experience working directly for ownership in addition to extensive third party management through such companies as CB Richard Ellis and Taylor & Mathis. Ms Sexton completed the RPA designation in 2009. She also holds a Florida Real Estate License. Ms Sexton attended Marshall University.
HARDAGE MCAREE, REGIONAL PROPERTY MANAGER - LOS ANGELES
Hardage McAree is the Regional Property Manager for M West Management, Western District. She is responsible for the supervision of our on-site staff in our Southern California multi-family properties and the implementation of solid operating standards. Having been in the industry since 1993, she has extensive knowledge of multi-family property management. Hardage’s background includes Marketing, Leasing, Management and Corporate Training positions at R.W. Selby & Company, Western National Group and Greystar Management. She has an extensive knowledge of California and Federal Fair Housing compliance, California landlord/tenant laws and resident relations. Hardage is a graduate of Tulane University and currently lives in Sherman Oaks with her family.
PATRICK MCAREE, PROJECT MANAGER, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
Patrick McAree is our Project Manager, Construction and Maintenance. He is responsible for planning, bidding, and oversight of all property improvements made on the west coast. Patrick is an active duty Los Angeles Police Sergeant II/Detective with 23 years of service. He has worked throughout the City of Los Angeles in a variety of patrol/investigative assignments. For the last 12 years, he has been the Officer-in-Charge of the Facilities Management Division, Construction Section. He has been the LAPD’s project manager for construction projects valued in excess of $500M and has successfully delivered over 800,000 square feet of space for the LAPD. Patrick was the architect and project manager of the first LAPD Security Master Plan. He is a City of Los Angeles certified Project/Construction manager. Patrick is a USMC veteran and a graduate of UCLA. He lives in Sherman Oaks, California with his wife and two sons.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA & TAMPA, FLORIDA
We are a locally operated, multifamily and office management firm focused on creating value in Southern California and Tampa Florida by providing institutional quality property management services.The M West platform is well positioned to offer core property management services and other real estate services with an experienced executive directly engaged in the asset management of all of our properties. We work with building owners to identify property management service needs and to tailor custom programs to meet those needs with 100% transparency on fees and expense reimbursements.
Our vision for each property is to work with ownership to identify the goals for your building and to work tirelessly to implement a strategy to achieve them. To achieve this end, M West evaluates all aspects of a building’s operations to make recommendations on operational efficiencies and cost savings. Thus, based on our management platform, M West will be able to achieve an immediate cost allocation efficiency which will significantly reduce facilities and property management costs.
In addition to being a management firm, M West is also a long term investor. As a landlord, investor and property manager, we are acutely aware the difficulties faced by owners and institutions in the current economy. It is directly because of our experience owning assets that we believe in achieving performance by operating our client’s properties as if they were our own.
SERVICES
M West’s Property Management platform is based on the simple idea that we treat our client’s assets as if they were our own. Through our diverse experiences managing real estate, M West has compiled an extensive library of state-of-the-art management tools and fundamental processes to operate and maintain and real estate assets. The M West Management Team provides comprehensive facilities management services for the project. Core services include the following:
- • Multifamily & Office Property Management Services
- • Multifamily Leasing Services
- • Property Accounting Services
- • Construction Management Services
- • Property Due Diligence
- • Dispositions
- • Acquisitions
- • Asset Valuation
- • Property Strategy Development
- • Perform Property Due Diligence
- • Review of Property Physical Condition
- • Preparation of a Schedule of Deferred Maintenance
- • Budgeting
- • Insurance and Risk Management Review
- • Building & Systems Maintenance Review
- • Building Premises Safety and Access Control Procedures Review
- • Management of Maintenance of all Building Structures and Permanent Interiors
M West Management’s accounting functions are centralized and operated out of our Los Angeles offices. Our accounting team is highly experienced in all facets of GAAP real estate accounting practices and will work to prepare a tailored reporting package to meet your needs. Our standard monthly report packages consist of the following.
- • Executive Summary
- • Income Statement with Budget Comparison
- • Detailed Variance Explanations
- • 12-Month Income Statement
- • Balance Sheet
- • Bank Statement & Bank Reconciliation
- • Check Register
- • Schedules for Balance Sheet Accounts
- • General Ledger Detail
- • Accounts Payable Approval
- • Purchase of Capital Items
Competitive Advantage
Our experience has also taught us, that hiring and developing a top flight team is paramount to achieving success. As a result, M West has created a pride-of-ownership culture within our organization which allows us to manage our properties, and our client’s properties, to the highest institutional standards. We also believe that providing timely and accurate financial information to clients is an essential element of successful property management and critical in evaluating the performance of real estate assets. To that end, we operate exclusive property licenses based on the triple redundant APS hosted Yardi accounting software system and manage all aspects of the financial operations of our assets--from bill pay to annual tax preparations.
M West is also long term investor and as such we are acutely aware the difficulties faced by owners and institutions in the current economy.
