American Property Management

I would recommend Walt and American home properties to anyone that is looking for an excellent property management company.
Walt and his team are responsive, reliable, and professional.
There is no doubt in my mind when selecting American home property to list my home or assist in finding a home to rent.

Absolutely wonderful property management company, if you are looking for one don’t look any further.
I dealt with another company for 3 years and was totally disappointed with the service. Then after reading Unilocal reviews I sent an email to APM and Walt immediately responded. He personally came to our home and listened our needs. Then he showed us some data and gave us invaluable advice. Our house was on the market in less than a week and after APM team going thru a detailed selection process we got some wonderful tenants.
I didn’t have to deal with even one property related item since I met Walt and his team. I take their advice every step of the way and they never disappointed me. I totally trust them with my property.

Walt, Lori, Brenda — these are truly friendly professionals who run this company. I couldn’t be happier having to work with them. Very responsive and helpful. Both thumbs up for this company and their excellent service!

Walt & APM have managed our San Ramon property for the last 2+ years. If you want a consummate professional who demonstrates the highest level of ethics, cares for your home like you would, markets the home for the best rent, screens every applicant, responds to tenant calls instantly, you’ve come to the right place. Walt is also an outstanding photographer to market your property. Walt is tech savvy — from automated property management system, with direct deposits, year end tax statements, etc., it’s a breeze to have your property managed by APM. I have a property managed by another property management company (well outside of APMs area of management) — APM is light years better and significantly cheaper (just $ 30 difference per month between APM managing a 3500Sqft home vs the other company managing a 1200Sqft home). When my tenants give me nothing but positive feedback, and I have nothing but positive experience — You cannot go wrong with Walt and APM.

Could not be happier with American Property Management and Walt.
From the professional picture taking and care in presenting new properties to the diligence and management of handling the property and tenants the entire process with APM has been top-​notch and hassle free!
I would not hesitate to recommend Walt and APM.

From 2010 to 2013, I rented an upscale Bridges home in San Ramon from American Property Management (APM) at affordable rental rates. Walt Welti, the owner of APM, and Walt’s team of highly trained ethical professionals made the whole house rental experience fabulous! The customer service was exceptional with outstanding personal service. I enjoyed interacting with Lori, the Office Manager, who was attentive, friendly, and prompt with all of my needs. In fact, my 2 young kids preferred I drop off the rent check at APM office so they could say hello to Lori who made them smile each visit. The gardeners, handyman, and all trade professionals were highly skilled; prompt and courteous. APM makes yearly lease renewal an easy process. I never felt like I was renting. After I bought a house in Danville, the move out process was easy. The APM team was such a pleasure to interact with. If I ever need to rent my Danville home, I will definitely use APM.

We hired Walt after a recommendation from a work colleague of my wife. APM managed our property for two years whilst we lived overseas. There are not enough positives to express our pleasure and satisfaction of our experience with Walt and company. Efficient, professional, honest, great communicator, are words that come to mind. Walt secured first class tenants, and charged us more-​than-​reasonable fees. He handles pretty much everything, and has top flight contractors at his disposal for any and all maintenance and repairs. If one needed a person to take over all aspects of one’s daily life, and Walt was in that business, he would be the one to hire, hands down! Since returning to our home we have sought out Walt’s referral advice for contractors, which he has provided immediately. We hope to relocate overseas again at the end of the year, and there will be only one phone call to make for our property management. Highest recommendation!

I hired APM to manage my house as a rental when I moved to the east coast. Overall Walt and his team did an outstanding job and I would highly recommend them! They did a great job marketing the rental, and did a thorough screening of applications. They were very responsive when repairs were needed and prompt remitting the rent payment to me. Walt and his team are very knowledge and professional. I wouldn’t hesitate to work with them again and recommend them highly!

My family and I just rented a great townhouse from APM. Walt made sure everything was exactly as it should be. I’ve dealt with other property management companies in the past, but now I know what a real, professional operation runs like. I feel really good about both the property and our relationship with this company. I would definitely recommend them.

APM is a professional, reliable and honest property management company. Walt and Lori are by far two of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. We rented a property from APM for the past year (until we purchased our own place) and I have only good things to say. What I appreciated the most was how reliable and prompt Walt was in answering my calls, following up regarding various service issues, and ensuring that things at the property were running smoothly. He never hesitated to attend in person (if needed) and was always respectful of my time. I am happy to know them and would recommend them to anyone looking to rent (or rent out) a property.

They are nice to work with. If you are approved or not they will let you know in a really friendly and professional way. Would do business again for sure.

My family and I have been renting from APM for the last three consecutive calendar years and it was the absolute best rental experience. Walt was our main contact the entire rental period and he was responsive, compassionate and extremely supportive whenever we had a need or problem. During our time at our San Ramon rental we had a few issues (lighting, water filtration system and a few mechanical window difficulties) and Walt was caring, understanding and very responsive. Walt truly is a rarity.
Walt never treated us like a tenant, but treated us more like his customer. He worked diligently to insure that we were satisfied with each outcome. Maybe we made his job easier being reasonable and respectful concerning our requests, but he never made us feel like we were asking for something that wasn’t easily achievable.
I don’t care if you are a home owner looking for a property manager or a renter looking for an honorable professional rental company, please start with Walt Welti at APM as I honestly think you will be pleasantly surprised.

I am an owner and recently attempted to have this company look at our property in San Ramon.
When the agent showed, he took about 3 minutes to review the property and deemed it not worthy of American’s «quality standards». This was fairly amusing to me as I own 3 other rentals and am pretty knowledgeable about what constitutes good condition and what does not. The previous owner had card for the house very well, the plumbing & electricals are upgraded. Not the highest end décor, but clean and functional.
Long story short, he turned around, muttered a few excuses about the company being picky, asked no questions, and left. It felt like I was the one who set up a bait & switch. The thing that he focused on was the backyard — which had been let go by the prior owner, but which clearly could have been rectified rather easily — in fact in general it is the easiest thing to rectify in rentals since it doesn’t affect habitability and is mostly about curb appeal. It was baffling because the thing that I still fail to understand is it would have been easy to say that the backyard clean-​up /​condition was a precondition to servicing the property.
It’s pretty clear that there is either a inherent bias towards high-​end or immaculate properties (either that or possibly some other personal appearance bias) — in which case it’s the absolute minimum of work for them for maximum gain. It seems awfully doubtful that this company will do more than the minimum and try to avoid extra work atall costs.
Caveat emptor.

I have been renting a property from APM for the last year and a half and have nothing but praises to give them. Walt & Lori take care of issues immediately. I never have to wait on anything. They either put me in contact with a service provider to arrange a time or Walt will come out and address it himself. He’s there to make sure I’m happy.
Prior to moving in, Walt provided me with a great deal of advice for renting out my property in San Francisco. He told me how to choose the right PM for my loft and the pros & cons of managing it myself. He actually spent a great deal of time with me on the subject.
Walt’s quality of service is what you want to pay for. When you get service as good as APM’s, others should know and benefit from it.