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CHICAGOCOOPERATOR.COM THE CHICAGOLAND COOPERATOR — SPRING EXPO 2019 23 Legendary, Chicago-Centric Property Management Sudler people deliver. sudlerchicago.com Imagine you’re looking to find property managers for your building or association. There are lots of competitors out there, each trying to persuade you they’re the best choice. How would you decide? What should you look for? Maybe this perspective will help: Here’s why our competitors often grudgingly admit they prefer not to be compared to Sudler. Sudler clients. The buildings and owner associations we serve are simply the best in the city. In many ways, the old adage is true: You are who you work for. Sudler history. Louis Sudler created the property management business more than 90 years ago. In his time, “Sudler-Managed” came to be a mark of distinction for any building. It signified superior service, consistently delivered. It still does. Sudler record. We are pioneers in this business. Sudler “firsts” include a host of breakthrough cost-saving initiatives, accreditation achievements, and critical-response protocols and experience. The list is long, impressive, and unmatched. Sudler headquarters. Chicago has always been our home. We know the city. We love the city. And we love not having to serve any out-of-town masters. Decisions get made right here in Chicago, not in some other state or some other country. … Sudler people. We are blessed with a remarkable team of self-starting, knowledgeable, caring, organized, enthusiastic, good-humored, delightful professionals who embrace everything written here. They are the heirs to Louis Sudler’s ethic, and they’re the envy of our every competitor. With good reason, because … Five reasons why competing with Sudler P R O P E R T Y M A N A G E M E N T V I E W P O I N T is such a challenge. sudlerchicago.com Standing Fast Against the Winds of Change Recently, the property-management landscape in Chicago was buffeted by major change. Almost simultane- ously, a few large local fi rms elected to become absorbed by an even larger, publicly held corporation. One consequence is that these fi rms now serve a new management hierarchy outside the city, indeed outside the country. What’s more, these fi rms are also now beholden to faceless public shareholders. Sudler holds fi rm to a decidedly different approach to our business: We remain a privately held company, head- quartered in the same city in which we were founded nearly a century ago: Chicago. We favor this approach because experience tells us it best serves our clients, and our Sudler people. Our Choice: Private Ownership in a Client-Focused Business In our view, property-management is a personal-service business. First and foremost, clients choose us to look after their homes. It’s a relationship based on trust; on confi dence that our people will deliver. As we see it, a distant headquarters or the unrelenting pressure of bottom-line-obsessed stock markets can compromise service-delivery, and add unnecessary pressures on the people who work directly with clients. Whether in an extreme situation like a building emergency—an eventuality for which we prepare—or just meeting everyday needs of clients, these sorts of limitations are unacceptable to us. Louis Sudler founded our fi rm in 1927 based on the kind of exceptional service consistently delivered that merits trust. To that end, our historic private-ownership structure keeps Sudler people close to the clients they serve. It ensures our people remain unburdened by dictates from some distant management. It frees them to make on-the-spot decisions The simple truth: Private ownership is a powerful reason why… What Sudler’s private ownership means to our clients.