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Saturday September 4, 2010

Homeland Security Weekly

Home Owners Association Security

 

 

  • ASPS specializes in providing uniformed security (Courtesy Patrol) services at apartment communities and HOAs throughout the valley. Providing security at these types of properties requires a highly trained security officer who is knowledgeable, courteous, professional, and experienced in dealing with the public on your behalf.  After all, we are your representative in your absence.
  • The principal owners of ASPS have over 28 years of combined upper-level property management experience with apartment fee management in the Las Vegas metro area. We fully understand the balance needed for effective security management on multifamily properties. We bring both elements together to provide the highest level service possible on each of our client properties.
  • Security is an investment in your residents and yourself and not an expense! Yes, I said "Not an expense". You do receive a return on your investment with effective security. How, you may ask? By having ASPS on your property at night, when management and ownership are at their greatest exposure to noise, criminal acts, and disturbance events, you have peace of mind knowing that you will minimize such exposure to good residents.  Good residents talk to other good residents and prospective good residents such as family, friends, and co-workers. What will they be saying about your property?
  • Trespassers and parking lot crimes are the other areas of exposure that managers and owners face. Residents usually only care that everything in their apartment works, noise is minimal, crime is manageable, that they are enjoying a relatively peaceful and quiet environment in their community, and that their vehicle in the parking lot, which is exposed and usually out of their direct line of sight, is in the same condition as when they left it. Many manager and owner frustrations usually occur over this issue as the resident storms into their office demanding to know why their vehicle was burglarized or stolen. This is another common problem in apartment communities and HOA's as the parking lots are usually a smorgasbord for criminals.
  • There are so many vehicles and choices for the criminal. Having security helps minimize that exposure through proactive patrols of the parking lots. We typically spend 80% of our patrol time in the parking lots with high visibility as a uniformed proactive physical deterrent to car thieves and burglars. By patrolling heavily in the parking lots, many types of crimes can be deterred, including trespassers. Another hidden benefit of having security is the reduced exposure of police vehicles on your property. The more times residents see police vehicles, the more it instills in their mind that where they live must have crime issues. By having security on site to address most issues without having to have the involvement of police you reduce the amount of times police vehicles are seen on property, plus you minimize your exposure to being targeted by the city for excessive police calls for service to your property.  
  • Spending money on security only makes sense as it is a proactive value-added measure that brings a return on your investment in many ways. There are numerous positive things that result by having effective security in place that in time pays for itself each and every month.
  • ASPS utilizes a proprietary secure online database of trespassers who are entered into the system along with their picture and, if found subsequently on your property again, are subject to arrest. This eliminates the same person from trespassing over and over again and removes the problem person from your property. We also utilize via our dispatch center an online database for running vehicle plates and VIN numbers to determine if a vehicle is reported stolen and accesses the warrants database to check on local county arrest warrants for trespassers. This helps deter trespassers as they know they will be checked for warrants if they come back on the property.
  • ASPS can provide the newest technology to control your HOA. This includes facial recognition software for residents and controlling unwanted people, gate controllers, emergency buttons in homes to alert the gate, and 24/7 monitoring. We can provide key holding services as well as emergency entrance to residences if requested.


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