Andrea Curtis, Licensed Property Manager

Andrea has worked as an Administrator for Downtown Suites Ltd. since July 2008. Her role includes liaising with tenants and owners. Her pleasant and efficient phone manner will be your first contact with Downtown Suites. Andrea is also licensed as a Rental Property Manager. Previously, Andrea worked as a client service administrator for almost 11 years at a major Financial Planning Company before coming to work with us. Andrea looks forward to continuing her career with the Downtown Suites team.

“Lisa has been absolutely wonderful and incredibly helpful. She’s also been very accommodating and understanding of my situation, with time difference, and me being so far away. I really appreciate the friendliness and professionalism and look forward to moving in soon!”

A senior property manager, with over 18 years in the real estate industry – from Vancouver, BC to the Cayman Islands, to Atlanta, Georgia, and recently back home to her native Vancouver.

Lisa Taylor, Licensed Property Manager

Lisa specializes in leasing residential properties. Her enthusiastic and friendly manner certainly has factored Lisa as one of Vancouver’s top leasing agents. A licensed property manager, her responsibilities include the acquisition and marketing of rental properties; showings; tenant qualifying, application processing and screening; market and rental rate analysis and determination.

We keep in touch regularly with our owners as well as in the real estate community in Vancouver, and just posted these newsletters to our clients, and another to realtor colleagues.

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Our latest postcard to prospective clients asks:
Do discounted fees = discounted service?
You know you get what you pay for.

Choose Downtown Suites instead and get proven professional service, with decades of experience … fully tax deductable and very affordable rates with no compromise in service.

Email me now: nic@downtownsuites.com or call 604-694-8801

You have my personal guarantee that we will look after your property like it is our own.

Visit our website for more details and testimonials: www.downtownsuites.ca

Just another Day in the Life of a Property Manager. Now its mould! Nicholas Meyer of Downtown Suites in Vancouver discusses the issues arising out of a mould situation in a condo.

Nicholas Meyer of Downtown Suites Ltd. discusses the current real estate market in Vancouver BC.

Nicholas Meyer of Downtown Suites in Vancouver BC outlines the company’s rates and fees.

Nicholas Meyer and Lisa Taylor discuss the current market in Vancouver suite rentals.Downtown Suites Ltd.

Nicholas Meyer and Lisa Taylor of Downtown Suites Ltd. in Vancouver BC discuss the current rental rates.

At Downtown Suites, we always act with compassion and empathy to the tenants when delivering an end of tenancy notice on behalf of an owner. At the same time, we want to ensure everything happens without any loss to the property owners if at all possible. An important factor is making sure we have timely delivery of any End of Tenancy Notice, according to the BC Residential Tenancy Act’s stipulations.

Notice is not always considered “received” on the date is it sent, depending on the way this notice is delivered.

Received on the day of delivery: When a copy of the notice is left directly with the tenant, or left with an adult who apparently lives with the tenant, the notice is deemed to be received on the day it is left.

Received in three days: It is important to know that when a copy is left in a mailbox (or mail slot) where the tenant lives, the notice is not deemed to be received until three days after the day it was left. If the notice is faxed to a number provided by the tenant, it is deemed to be received on the third day after faxing. Similarly, if notice is posted on the door or other noticeable place at the address where the tenant lives, it is deemed as received on the third day after this posting.

Received in five days: When a copy has been sent by regular mail or registered mail to the address where the tenant lives, notice is deemed to be received on the fifth day after mailing.

Many owners following these regulations are surprised to discover that, through no fault of the tenant, the notice was not actually received. Unless the notice is directly handed to the tenant, it is wise to have confirmation of receipt. At Downtown Suites, as soon as we hear from an owner that notice must be given, we send it out by registered mail.

(This is an important Evergreen Resource article, revisited from our archives.)