San Diego Real Estate Property Management
for the Community of San Marcos

San Marcos is a community located in San Diego's north county with many strong businesses, churches, non-profit organizations, public schools and a social life. Once a mostly Latino (a well-rooted Mexican American) town until the 1960's, San Marcos became a diverse affluent suburban community home to professionals who work in the city of San Diego. Many residents work locally because more industrial and commercial businesses have appeared in San Marcos in the past decade.

History:

According to historical legends, the San Luis Rey Mission flocks were robbed by a small band of Indians in the late 1700s. Fleeing the Spanish troops, the Indians escaped to the hills. While pursuing the Indians, the Spaniards came upon a fertile valley in 1797 which was named Los Vallecitos de San Marcos (Little Valleys of Saint Mark) to honor the day of discovery: April 25th, “St. Mark’s Day”. On April 22, 1840 Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado, granted Los Vallecitos de San Marcos to his relative, Jose Mario Alvarado. In 1846 Indians killed Jose Alvarado and the land was left to his wife; she then sold the land to Lorenzo Soto. In the late 1850s, Soto sold part of his land to Cave Couts and his family was soon raising livestock. Although Cave Couts owned the land, Major Gustavus French Merriam from Topeka, Kansas made the first permanent settlement. Merriam homesteaded 160 acres in the north Twin Oaks Valley and began wine and honey production.

After Major Merriam’s settlement, German and Dutch immigrants began moving into the area in the early 1880s. Then in 1883 a few miles south of the settlement, John H. Barham founded the first town in the area, aptly naming it Barham. By 1884, the Town of Barham had a post office, blacksmith, feed store and a weekly newspaper. In 1887 the San Marcos Land Company bought almost all of the San Marcos land formerly owned by the Couts family and promptly divided the land into tracts. Soon the beautiful hills began attracting home-seekers.

The original town of San Marcos was at the intersection of what is now Grand Avenue and Rancho Santa Fe Road. In 1887 the Santa Fe Railroad announced that it was going to lay tracks going through the valley, but to the disappointment of the citizens, the tracks were laid one mile away from the center of the town. By 1896, San Marcos was a community with its own stores, post office, blacksmith and railroad depot. In 1903, the town appeared to be going downhill so the people of San Marcos picked up their homes and moved along the railroad tracks to what now are Mission Road and Pico Avenue. In 1905, the town had every convenience, including rural mail delivery and telephone service. The first school in the area, which had started in Barham in 1880, was moved in 1889 to San Marcos. Later that same year, the Richland School was built, being the second school in San Marcos. The main business in San Marcos in the 1800s and early 1900s was farming. Then in the mid-1900s, dairies and poultry production became a big part of the business in the town. In 1907, the most popular building was built in San Marcos -- the general store. The Post Office was located at the corner of Mission and Pico.

San Marcos initially started to grow in 1956 when the first water from the Colorado River arrived. After the arrival of water, several small businesses started and the population rapidly increased to 2500. Then in 1950, the first dirt was turned for the construction of Highway 78 and San Marcos’ first high school was completed in June 1961. The City became incorporated on January 28, 1963. Through the 1960s the City grew by a few thousand new residents, but in the 1970s, San Marcos was flourishing as the third fastest growing city in the state with a population of 17,479 by 1980. During the 1980s, San Marcos almost doubled its population to 33,800. Growth has continued to boom in San Marcos, and the present population of the City is at 67,426.

Along with more people came the need for more education. San Marcos took this realization seriously and the City now has nine elementary schools, an English-learner Academy, two middle schools, and two high schools. The second high school (Mission Hills High) was opened August 2004. Higher education has become a benchmark for the City of San Marcos as the home for the popular Palomar Community College, chosen as the site for the newest state university in California – California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), and hosting several technical schools featuring higher education in the computer and medical fields.

San Diego Professional Property Managers is a full service Real Estate Property Management company providing property management in the San Marcos area. San Diego Professional Property Managers is a family owned business serving the San Marcos area; we are also one of the most professional Real Estate Property Management companies in the San Marcos area of California. Real Estate Property Management San Diego in the San Marcos area is different from other places, so having specific market knowledge is important, with 32 years experience we have that knowledge. If you are interested in our services, you can call or email us. Or you can request a complete proposal at www.sdppm.com/proposal.html, which will be emailed back to you in Adobe Acrobat Format that same day. We will set an appointment with you at the property, if you are local, so we can determine what the property will rent for, at no cost or obligation on your part. The reason we come out to your property is that all Real Estate is unique and each property is different and must be seen to set a rental amount. This is a very important step in the management evaluation process.

You should choose San Diego Professional Property Managers to manage your San Marcos property because we will get the job done right. Real Estate Property Management San Diego in San Marcos area of California is difficult and needs an experienced hand. San Diego Professional Property Managers Real Estate Property Management in the San Marcos area is very cost effective; our owners are very amazed at the level of service they receive from San Diego Professional Property Managers and we can attribute that to the personal service that we are able to provide our client as a family owned business. We don’t get the turn over that you might expect from a large company that takes all kinds of properties such as apartments, commercial etc. We specialize only in Single family homes and condos of distinction. Our motto is “Professional Real Estate Property Management doesn’t cost, it pays.” Our experience with dealing with tenants will result in a better outcome for our property owners.

Real Estate Property Management San Diego services in the San Marcos area include advertising the property. We advertise in the Union Tribune Newspaper, SignOnSanDiego, Craig’s List San Diego, Military Housing and our web site. Our web site will have from 12 to 16 photos of the property so prospective tenants can see that this is a property in the San Marcos area that they want to set an appointment to see. Real Estate Property Management in the San Marcos area of California requires maintenance from time to time. We use vendors from the San Marcos area that we have used for many years. We do not have in house maintenance personal so there is no worry that we are doing maintenance just to keep an in house staff busy. Having maintenance done in a timely manor is an important Real Estate Property Management service in the San Marcos area that San Diego Professional Property Managers provides, so that your tenants get a quick response. The accounting department creates financial reports for all the activity of the property. Our accounting department is responsible for paying all the bills and sending our owner financial statements on a monthly basis. At the end of the year you are sent a monthly statement and a year-to-date statement that will have everything that your tax preparer will need. Our detail reports allow our owners to know exactly what is happening on their properties on a monthly basis. San Diego Professional Property Managers will monitor all activity on your San Marcos property.

There are some basic items that are needed for Our Company to become your property manager in the San Marcos area of California.  The first item is a signed property management agreement for your San Marcos property.  To serve you better our owners fill out a property information sheet. The property information sheet lists all the amenities of the property. Items covered are whether the owner will accept pets, rental amount, and special items such as granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances or whether the property is near the beach or has a view. The property information sheet is sent to prospective owners via email prior to our initial appointment. We do this so the client will have an idea of what is important prior to our meeting. If the owner has any questions they can ask them at this appointment or call us anytime. For contact information, please go to http://www.sdppm.com/contactus.html.