Ambassador Property Management charges on a monthly flat fee. The benefit of a flat fee is that as an investor it is known upfront any monthly expenses. Repairs or improvements are made on an as needed basis. Percentage fees are only deducted once expenses reach $1000.00. There are no set up, trip, inspection, initiation, mileage, weekend, or evaluation associated fees. These fees tend to nickel and dime the investor and only benefit the management company. Ambassador Property Management focuses on saving you money and finding the most affordable deal and not securing the highest commission from the highest bidder.
Ambassador Property Management takes pride in your property by taking ownership and finding the most qualified candidate to make your house their home. During the vacancy process it is important that your investment is maintained and presentable in every way. In many cases, a vacant property needs more attention and care than an occupied one. Ambassador personnel go the extra mile to assure that yards are neatly trimmed on a regular basis, the interior is clean and free of offensive odors, receives appropriate traffic, and most importantly of all free of vandalism and crime. Ambassador Property Management will even take the time to place plants and/or other decorations throughout the household.
Consider the “Broken Window Theory”
"Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside.
Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or breaking into cars."
A successful strategy for preventing vandalism, say the book's authors, is to fix the problems when they are small. Repair the broken windows within a short time, say, a day or a week, and the tendency is that vandals are much less likely to break more windows or do further damage. Clean up the sidewalk every day, and the tendency is for litter not to accumulate (or for the rate of littering to be much less). Problems do not escalate and thus respectable residents do not flee a neighborhood.
The theory thus makes two major claims: 1) further petty crime and low-level anti-social behavior will be deterred, and thus 2) major crime will be prevented. Criticism of the theory has tended to focus only on the latter claim.
