Rock Property Services, Inc. is an experienced association management company, focused on the needs of owner-occupied residential associations here in the Vail Valley.

Its owner, Kenton Krohlow, has been managing associations since 1982.  His experience includes board member, on and off-site manager and maintenance service provider.  The core staff of the company has worked for Rock, here in the Valley and in the Denver metro area, since 1991.

Krohlow’s board positions include treasurer of a small HOA that completed a difficult transition from developer to owner control.  Other board positions include Vice President of the Ranch at Ken-Caryl – a 4,000 member association that controlled 10,000 acres (3,000 acres of open space) and operated three community centers similar in size and scope to the Vail’s Cascade Club.  He recently served on the board at Homestead. 

Based on these experiences, Krohlow developed a management company that reflects the best management practices now recommended by CAI (Community Associations Institute – a national organization that serves to educate owners/boards and provides training and certification for managers).  Management practices, based on certain core principles of management, that give boards and owners the consistency they need so that they know that their most precious asset, their home, is being maintained at its highest level. 

Management can be defined as the functions of planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling and staffing.  In association management, these functions are applied to legal actions of the community, its communications with owners/vendors, its maintenance, accounting and risk management activities.  As your managing agent, Rock’s goal is to provide the board with advice – based on our education, experience and expertise – so that they can meet their fiduciary responsibility to the association owners.

Krohlow’s education includes two college degrees (BS & AA), Dale Carnegie, Colorado Broker’s license (since 1985) and PCAM (nation’s highest certification/designation in association management).  He has also completed college level course-work in apartment management and building maintenance.

Rock’s accounting systems are second to none.  During Rock’s time in Denver, they taught audit procedures to many of the accountants then practicing association accounting.  Rock does all of its accounting in-house, employing an accountant who is a University of Wyoming MBA graduate.