Maya Okonkwo
Founder & broker of recordWas selling Eastside duplexes when clients started asking her to manage them. CA DRE #019xxxxxx.
We're nine people in an office on Sunset Boulevard, managing 180-some doors across Los Angeles for owners we know by first name.
Sunset Property Co. started in 2014 with three doors and a spreadsheet. Maya was a real estate agent who kept getting asked by clients to "just manage it for me," and Theo had spent five years inside a national management firm watching small portfolios get swallowed by the same playbook built for 800-unit assets.
The bet was simple: the in-between owner — somebody with a duplex they inherited, or a fourplex they bought during the recession, or a courtyard building they're slowly restoring — deserved the same thoughtfulness that a Class-A asset manager gets, and shouldn't have to run their own books to get it.
Twelve years later, that bet still works. Most of our owners came to us because a friend forwarded them our monthly statement and said "look at this, it's actually readable." We're still small, on purpose. We'd rather be the right firm for 200 doors than a forgettable one for 2,000.
Was selling Eastside duplexes when clients started asking her to manage them. CA DRE #019xxxxxx.
Five years inside a national PM firm; left to find a way to do this without the call center.
Has every block in Silver Lake and Echo Park memorized. RSO and AB-1482 sage.
Lives in Mar Vista. Knows which Westside vendors actually answer their phones on a Saturday.
Coordinates tours, screening, and lease signings across the portfolio. Former tenant rights counselor.
Dispatches our vendor bench, walks every unit on turnover, and runs our preventative maintenance calendar.
Your monthly P&L should be readable on a phone, not a spreadsheet shaman's dream.
No maintenance markups, no kickbacks, no required products. We make money one way: managing well.
Same property manager for the life of your contract. We answer our own phones.
Tenants pay the rent. Treating them with respect is good ethics and good business — they renew at 98%.