I didn’t get into community management through real estate. I got here as a frustrated HOA Board President.
If you’ve served on a board, you know the pattern. Emails to your management company go unanswered for weeks. Vendor invoices show up with no clear connection to work anyone approved. Financial reports, when they finally appear, raise more questions than they answer. The people you hired to make your job easier somehow made it harder.
After enough of that, I made a decision. I’d build the firm I always wanted to hire. That firm is AmLo Management.
My Background
I’ll be upfront. My path into this industry is unusual:
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota
- MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- CMCA (Certified Manager of Community Associations)
- AMS (Association Management Specialist)
- City Council Member, Duvall, Washington
- Former Chair, Duvall Planning Commission
- Active HOA Board Member
Engineers solve problems by understanding the system. MBAs scrutinize financials. Council members get held accountable in public. Board members live with the consequences of bad management. Every one of those roles shaped how AmLo operates.
What AmLo Does
We offer two tiers of HOA and Condominium Association management:
- Financial-only. Professional accounting, reserve oversight, and reporting for boards that want to keep operations in-house.
- Full-service. Financials plus maintenance coordination, vendor management, board support, owner communications, and day-to-day operations.
We also support developer clients during transition.
Who We Serve
We currently manage 600+ units across two states:
- Washington. King, Snohomish, Pierce, Thurston, and Clark counties (Seattle office)
- California. Los Angeles and Ventura counties (Marina del Rey office)
The Problems Boards Bring Us
Almost every board that reaches out describes some mix of these:
- Communication breakdown. Emails ignored, calls not returned, owners angry the manager is unreachable.
- Financial opacity. Reports that are late, incomplete, or impossible to reconcile.
- Volunteer burnout. Board members doing work the management company was hired to do.
- Reactive maintenance. Problems addressed only after they become emergencies.
- Disengagement. A management company that treats your community as one of hundreds, because it is.
How AmLo Is Different
- 48-hour response guarantee. You reach out, you hear back.
- Transparent financials. Every dollar traceable.
- Right-sized portfolios. Managers who actually have time for your community.
- Engineer’s rigor, owner’s empathy. Systems that work, run by people who remember the owners are real.
