Lynx Properties was founded in 2006, by Rod and Joyce Ohlwiler.
Rod has
almost 20 years experience in the real estate industry both as a Realtor,
and a licensed Broker. He currently holds Broker’s licenses in 2
states. Rod learned the real estate
and property management business over much of his career.
During these years Rod managed properties for many clients and
investors. Early in 2001, Rod was invited to join & become one of the
shareholder / owners of Regency Real Estate, which was a 33 agent /
shareholder office in southern Orange County, CA.
Formed in 1995, Regency at the time was a “unique” concept in real
estate... an office consisting of 33 agents who were the sole equal Broker /
Owners and shareholders of their own company.
Becoming a shareholder / owner at Regency was by “invitation only” to
agents with high real estate sales, and a solid reputation for honesty,
integrity, and longevity in real estate.
In 2004, Rod was elected to serve on the Board Of Directors at
Regency. Knowing that he would at
some point be relocating to Saint George, Rod obtained his Broker’s license
in Utah that year. During his term
on the Board of Directors, Rod worked selling property in both markets until
his Board of Directors term at Regency was done.
Soon after, Rod sold his share of stock back to Regency, and made the
exciting transition to southern Utah.
It was
while working in Saint George during those early years that they both heard
many troubling stories with regards to local property management companies.
After speaking with many people both inside and outside of real
estate, Rod found that the reputation for SERVICE and HONESTY in the
property management business was lacking in the Washington County area.
While working with owners of properties, they heard about problems
with lack of service, lack of attention, and in some cases, dishonesty with
regards to rentals and management of properties.
Joyce
also was a licensed Realtor in California working with Rod under his
Broker’s license for several years.
In addition to running the office, she also had experience in assisting
clients in servicing their properties.
After relocating here and drawing on her experience, Joyce was asked
by former associates and friends who owned property in the Saint George area
to help them with various details of their ownership and rentals in the
area. It was while working with
these associates and friends, she continued to hear of problems from owners
with various management companies they were using.
The only
way they could resolve these issues would be to start their own property
management company – so they did.
Utah law does not allow a Broker to manage property independently AND work
for another company, so they elected to start their own firm and focus
attention to the service side of the management business, which owners seem
to want and were not receiving.
With a combined 25 years
property management and real estate experience, Rod works strictly the real
estate side of Lynx Properties, and Joyce works only as Property Manager.
Each aspect of the business is separate and independent of the other,
and one of our policies is, we do not solicit clients from other
Realtors who refer their management business to Lynx.
If an agent sends us a client for management – when that client wants
to sell the property – they are referred BACK to that agent to sell the
property...something that no other management company in the area is doing.
We feel these clients belong to their agents...not us.
Our
mission is to provide the BEST level of service to the people of Washington
County with a professional property management company, using the best
resources available which includes state-of-the-art computer management
software.
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