Blue Olive Properties

Kevin with Blue Olive was a huge help when my wife and I needed to move and had to rent our house. He handled the leasing, found us great tenants, and took care of the property management for 3 years. It was a huge relief to have someone take such good care of our investment. When it was time to sell, Kevin listed and marketed the property very effectively and held our hands through the entire process. We closed yesterday and I can’t say enough good things about how it went. Highly recommended!

My husband and I rented from Blue Olive between April 2012 and May 2013. We paid rent online and had no major maintenance issues. We had two work orders the whole time, one was the usual slow to drain sink and tub. The other time was when our fridge died! They ordered a replacement unit the same day, said Home depot or wherever they got it from couldn’t deliver it until a day later. So they actually had two people from their office hand deliver and put it in for us! They were extremely helpful and friendly. We moved out, got the whole deposit back and moved on. No complaints!

It’s very rare to find a property managerial group on Unilocal that has higher than a 3 star rating… especially in a rental market as ruthless as Denver’s is right now. As many of you may know… Horror stories when renting are very common, tenants and landlords shoulder an equal amount of the blame. Renters do some ungodly things when they are at the face of eviction. That’s why it’s no shock to see Blue Olive close to 5 stars. From my experience (and the stories I’ve heard) they handle every conflict as they should. As professionals.
Issues with renting are bound to happen, but the guys at Blue Olive are attentive and competent… I’d recommend anyone who’s looking to buy or rent to go through these guys first!

As a headline, look at this place’s Google reviews too!
Run. Run as fast as you can from this place! This place is owned by a guy named Kevin who is being stretched too thin. He is very unresponsive and apparently can’t hold together a staff to help him out. Kevin signed me up for auto draft and then double dinged me only to blame ME for the double ding. He said it was my fault and that he clearly explained it in the emails, which is a blatant lie! I have the emails and after forwarding them to him, I received no response. My bank charged me an overdraft fee and Kevin basically told me to deal with it. This guy is a crook, I highly suggest you look elsewhere and DO NOT rent from him or use him for property management!
I challenge Kevin to attempt to «defend himself» and try to tell me I’m wrong. I have the emails in archive which I am gladly to post here if he attempts to do so.

I’ve rented from a ton of corporate apartments in Denver and it’s always the same thing: bad customer service followed by a grumpy repair man coming to fix whatever problem you have, usually several days after you place the complaint.
For once in my life, I can actually say I felt like a valued tenant while living under a blue olive roof. Always attentive, always speedy when I needed something done.
If I weren’t buying a house I would absolutely renew with them, just knowing I could trust that any concerns I had would be taken seriously and quickly is so relieving.
Thanks guys:)

Investors managing their own properties tend to have something against property managers because they think all you pay them for is placing a random tenant in your home, then collecting a monthly rent check. Well, if that’s all that a good property manager did, I’d agree that having a property manager is a complete waste of money. The reality is, where investors without a property manager have to worry about phone calls at 1 a.m. regarding a broken pipe, I don’t! They have to worry about high tenant turnover, but I don’t! The average landlord is often not collecting what he should be for rent, whereas I’m getting top dollar! So does paying someone to make me more money, while eliminating my stress make sense? Absolutely! If you or someone you know is managing their own property, have them talk with Kevin Mackessy. They’ll be very glad that they did.

I was renting an apartment in Denver from these guys for the last couple of years and they are very easy to work with. I was so happy that I could pay my rent online, as I had been sending in checks the old fashioned way to my previous property managers. Online is the way to go, I don’t even have to think about it. They seem to have a variety of handymen that are readily available when anything goes wrong. Whenever something broke or wasn’t working they were there to fix it within 24 hours. If I would call about something I would usually talk to one of the property managers, Paul, and he was always very nice and attentive on the phone.
It’s nice to have reliable managers that I feel like are taking care of me and the property — they’re on top of it! Property managers in Denver can be sketchy in my experience, but this company is professional and organized. Highly recommend renting from them!

I worked with Blue Olive for 5 years while they managed a property for me, they were absolutely fantastic to work with. They have been very ethical, fair and reasonable throughout the management and were great in a successful sale of the property.
I would highly recommend Kevin and his team for your real estate management needs as well for purchasing or selling a property in the area.

I would strongly recommend against doing business with these people as a renter or a homeowner.
Yesterday I called about a home I was interested in seeing and wanted to set up a time to walk through it. The agent who eventually called me back told me that he would not show it over the weekend because he was going on vacation. He informed me the only way I could see it was if I came to the house between 4 – 6 that day. Despite the fact that both my fiancé and I work until six pm every night. We both left work early just to go see this home. My fiancé was stuck in rush hour traffic for almost an hour… I was worried that she would be too late to see the home, so I called the agent on my ten minute drive to the home (around 5:15). I asked the agent if she would be able to see the home if she arrived right at six (I called because I did not want her to waste an hour driving there just to be turned away). He assured me that would not be a problem. I arrived less than ten minutes after talking to the agent and no one was at the home. After calling a few times, he finally called me back and told me that he wasn’t there but another agent should be there. He had failed to inform me of this at any point in our multiple conversations that day (and his phone number was on the rental sign). No agent was at the home to let us in, despite me confirming with him less than ten minutes prior to arrival.
Both of my fiancé and I have great jobs, an excellent rental history, and credit scores over 800. If this was my rental property and I found out that no one showed us this home, I would be furious. The sheer amount of ineptitude of this company is fascinating to me, I would NOT trust them with my business.
This company wasted our time, and forced us to both to leave our jobs, because they are unable and unwilling to do theirs. I left a message with management asking them to follow up with me, before posting this. But of course no one did.
For an agent to be that lazy and unwilling to do his one job is unreal. I cannot understand how someone can run a business so poorly. I wish I could reach out to the owner directly and let them know who they are dealing with, because this company is definitely costing them money.

As an out of state property owner, we are very pleased with Blue Olive Properties. Our association with them has changed us from wanting to sell due to dissatisfaction with two previous PM companies to continuing to invest in quality rental property in the Denver area. Their systems are on line so both owner and tenants know the status of maintenance request, payments, etc.
When we have visited the properties we always ask the tenants «do you get a prompt response when you contact Blue Olive?» The answer is consistently «Yes»
Blue Olive is thorough in selecting tenants and we know they take care of our properties as well as the tenants. The lease agreements are very detailed. That way both parties are protected.
Communication, maintenance personnel on staff and reliable contractors on call are the strong points for us.