Adam Jernow, Founder and Principal OGI Property Management
Single Entrepreneur Spotlight
Adam Jernow
New York, NY
CEO and Principal, OGI Property Management
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1. My business and how I got started:
I was a white collar property owner with real estate dreams, frustrated by the help that I got from my management companies. When I bought units in a condo and a co-op building, I believed that the buildings would be managed strategically. I was working as a management consultant, telling a huge global bank how to improve its operations and couldn’t understand why my buildings weren’t getting similar advice. When I looked for a great management company, I couldn’t find one. So I started my own.
2. Why my product/service is better than the competition:
Technology and project management. We pull clients towards integrating technology into their buildings wherever possible. Technology makes people’s lives easier- theirs and ours.
Regarding project management, our clients pay us to get things done. That has required me to learn more about many subjects than I anticipated. For instance, we are carving a niche in gaining certificates of occupancy (C of O) for condos that don’t have them. This is a rewarding challenge.
3. A typical day for me:
Paying bills for clients, managing about 12 different projects at any one time, making sure clients’ needs are met, hiding the bodies.
4. What I love most about my business:
We like solving problems. We like changing people’s opinions about property management and property managers.
5. I’m cool because:
I’m a good boss, heffe, maestro, cheese.
6. If my friends nominated me for an award, it would be “Most Likely to…”:
Meet people. I meet a lot of people.
7. A movie made about my life it would be named:
Someone else would name it.
8. Strangest thing you’d find in my fridge, wallet or closet:
Western clothing
9. Personal qualities I admire most in others:
Confidence, sense of self identity
10. Three things I hope to accomplish in the next five years:
Take my management company from just the best in NYC to one that’s known as the best in NYC.
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