NOAA GROUP PURCHASING Guaranteed Prices Quality You contract prices are guaranteed for at least one All participating vendors are leaders in their fields and year, or in some cases two years with caps. offer first quality branded products. A Large Scope of Cost Savings The Best Service Opportunities Vendors must qualify for our group purchasing The contract offers represent a wide range of large program. You receive high levels of service as volume, commonly purchased items used every day in the norm. all facilities. Greater Efficiency The Best Price By participating in NOAA group purchasing, you Regardless of the size of your facility, you can get the no longer have to price or vendor shop for common NOAA best pricing on many contracts. everyday items. IGS Energy Energy Supply Corben Sherlock (614) 659-5165 Ahola Sherwin Williams HR Solutons & Payroll Paint & Carpet Brian Boff CJ Handwerk & Paul Faudree (440) 665-4637 (216) 271-6111 Foxen V&A Risk Services LLC Renters Legal Liability Captive Workers’ Compensation Sarah Creighton Danielle Romstadt (614) 642-8994 (440) 785-8849 Livable ZOOM! Powered by American Utility Billing & Management Solutions for Business Chase Terrell Apparel-Promo-Print (877) 789-6027 Ext 3 Joe Artiste (440) 343-3362 2 June 2020 www.noaamembers.com JUNE 2020 Northern Ohio Apartment Association TABLE OF CONTENTS The Shoreline 5455 N. Marginal Rd. Suite 501 Group Purchasing ....................................................................................................2 Cleveland, OH 44114 Executive Vice President’s Message ...............................................................4 216-241-1635 New Associate Members ......................................................................................6 Suites Magazine Apartment Data - Cleveland/Akron ...............................................................7 Ryan Flanagan • P:216.241.1635 [email protected] New Primary Members .........................................................................................8 noaamembers.com/suites-magazine Apartment Data - Toledo ...................................................................................... facebook.com/NOAAPage 9 Industry Profile - Debbie Barry ..................................................................... 10 NOAA Executive Officers Utility Savings with Livable ........................................................................... 11 Answering Service - An Essential Property Management Tool .. 12 President Dan Ross The Lumen ..................................................................................................... The Landmark Companies 14 When completed, the 34-story President-Elect icon gracing the Cleveland Janene Kubit 200 West Apartments, LLC skyline will deliver 318 one- two- and three-bedroom Vice President apartments—including a Marcia Woznicki Goldberg Companies selection of penthouses—to a downtown district touted Treasurer as the nation’s largest Debbie Barry AMHA performing-arts center outside of New York City. Secretary Bhavin Patel Green Harvest Capital, LLC NOAA Calendar .................................................................................................... 15 Presidential Appointee Allan B. Pintner Industry Profile - Bhavin "B" Patel .............................................................. 20 Millennia Housing Mgmt. Ltd. Legislative Update ............................................................................................... 22 Immediate Past President Eviction Index ........................................................................................................ 24 Charles Schulman Carlyle Management Company Vacancy Rates ......................................................................................................... 25 ......................................................................................................... Executive Vice President Legal Hotline 26 Ralph McGreevy NOAA Published by the Northern Ohio Apartment Association Associate Council Appointee Chris Stahurski The Northern Ohio Apartment Association is a not-for-profit organization committed to CORT furthering professionalism in the multi-housing industry. NOAA serves thirty-six Ohio counties through specially designed education, networking and legislative programs. NOAA Staff President’s Inner Circle Ralph McGreevy Executive Vice President IGS Energy Jacqui Baughman President’s Circle Members Office Manager AmRent CSC ServiceWorks National Design Mart Ryan Flanagan Apartments.com Famous Supply Oswald Companies Project Manager of Media and Marketing AssuredPartners Foxen Powers Friedman Linn PLL Belfor USA K Kern Painting RentPath - Apartment Guide.com C.C. Mitchell Supply Co. Livable Sherwin Williams Carrara Restoration Maintenance Supply HQ ZOOM! Branding Group Northern Ohio Apartment Association Suites Magazine 3 Message from the EVP A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. etc. before we reopened. We Plato were appreciative and this service gave all of us a sense This era of Covid-19 is a good time for making good decisions. of comfort and additional Decisions made by all of us affected this pandemic. The stay security as we returned to the at home order, like it or not, saved lives. But the apartment office on May 18th. industry rolled on. We are an industry that affects our residents lives 24/7/365. Hence the designation of being Although working from home and remaining an essential industry. has its advantages, there’s no place better to do our business than from our new offices at The Shoreline. Many frontline workers from the hospitals and emergency services got kudos, locally and nationally. Service workers Much of this issue of Suites was done from Ryan Flanagan at the grocery store and pharmacy were applauded. But the home during the stay at home period of Covid-19. No easy front line for everybody begins at the front door of your task with two young children in the house. But kudos to Ryan home. Our managers, maintenance teams and leasing for keeping his eyes on the goal and performing admirably people, did extraordinary work in times of personal risk. during this period. Much appreciation and respect for those of you who served their residents throughout this crisis. When PPP was announced, I asked Jacqui, Allan Pintner and others to look into the opportunity and see if NOAA was During this crisis, residents moved in and moved out. There qualified to apply. The first go-around ruled out 501 C (6) was no cessation. Residents had emergencies that needed businesses. We were disappointed as we could see early on repaired. Packages came in what I am assuming, are record that we would, like almost all businesses, be impacted from numbers from Amazon and elsewhere that needed to be Covid-19 in many ways. handled and some, delivered. Life went on for our industry. Life went on because we are a 24/7/365 business. George Nassif let us know that the rules had changed, and our classification of non-profit could apply for PPP on the NOAA recognizes that all this happens because of dedicated second installment. Jacqui Baughman quarterbacked a team staffs serving their community in times of crisis, on holidays consisting of Scott Foerster and Tina Palumbo, Foerster and and on all days of the week ending in ‘y’. Congratulations for Hayes LTD Certified Public Accountants, George Nassif, your service and perseverance and keep up the great work. Dollar Bank, along with executive committee member Allan Pintner, Chuck Schulman and others, in completing and filing Our association, not a critical industry, closed the office in the application for PPP. No easy task. Mid-March and reopened in late May. Our constituency was served by our staff working from home. Although we are In relatively short order we learned that we had been not essential, in the terms defined by the pandemic, we approved. NOAA events have either been cancelled, tried to maintain our role of serving our members. As you postponed, or greatly diminished by the pandemic. The may know, NOAA has moved twice in a very short time, and PPP will help us through this crisis and this help team was one of the changes was a Vonage phone system, where we successful. Many thanks for the hours spent on this task and could maintain our daily presence. we are most appreciative. Chuck Schulman and Allan Pintner provided daily updates While Covid-19 is not over, we are back. We are cautious. on Covid-19 articles and informational seminars that were But we are here to help. Let us know what we can do posted to our website. Additionally, NOAAs plans were for you. laid out for our golf outing and key awards judging, not knowing if they were to really happen. It now appears Ralph Mcgreevy, EVP these activities are a go. 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