Our Story
When you work with Umano Property Management, you can rest assure that real people are managing your property, not just technology.
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With the advent of technology and the internet, property management has become a much more efficient business for both owners and property managers alike. These tools make many processes faster and easier than ever thought before and are of great benefit for anyone. However, it is easy to forget technology is just a tool. Many people in our industry, and industries worldwide, have become too reliant on it, too dependent on its capabilities. It has ended up separating people from their environment and each other instead of bringing them closer together. The result in our business is a paradox, a faceless company or person ends up managing properties from behind a desk somewhere, behind a computer. This leaves owners and tenants feeling frustrated and neglected. |
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| Umano Property Management was founded on the basic principle that Property Management and Real Estate are a people business. In fact, our name, Umano is derived from the the word “Human”. This core principal is something many companies have forgotten in this day and age. Owners are people, tenants are people, vendors are people, and managers are people. Properties need people to operate, and cannot be run solely on technology. While technology is useful, it requires people behind the scenes running the property. For it is people, not technology, that are the number one resource. And it is relationships between people, the ‘human’ element and connection we all share, that we hold above all else. Because business isn’t always about the money, the product, or the service, but it is almost always about the people. And People that will never go out of business. |
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| Alberto Stein Rios, Principal is a full time Real Estate Professional, Property Manager and Entrepreneur. Since 2004, he has been licensed in real estate, and has gained experience in sales and investing making him a valuable resource for anyone with a real estate need. In 2011, his focused switched to property management, when he worked in a variety of positions for some of the largest property management companies in the industry. It was there he gained a foundation of experience in managing all different types of properties- from single family to multi-family, from military housing to student housing, and from low income housing to luxury apartment living and everything else in between. After several years working for these companies, Alberto Stein branched out on his own and started Umano Property Management, a company dedicated to providing premium property management to both owners and tenants alike. In addition, Alberto Stein is active in his community and has participated in Seattle University's Alumni Board of Governors, United Way as a Disaster Relief volunteer and is active member in many real estate groups throughout the region. |
