Property Management · The Columbian, Little Italy

Performance and responsiveness, without the hassle.

Property Management

Management that owners and residents actually reach.

Full-service management for owners of single-family rentals, multifamily buildings, and high-end downtown properties — leasing, maintenance coordination, and day-to-day operations handled by a team owners and tenants both actually reach.

Looking To Rent?

6 current vacancies across our managed portfolio.

From $150/month — browse photos, pricing, and availability on our rentals page, with sort and filter tools to find what fits.

Why We’re Different

High touch. Now with high tech.

We built a boutique management company on one idea: residents of San Diego’s best buildings deserve a luxury experience, and owners deserve a team that treats the property like its own. A tech company bought that idea. Now we’re back to finish it.

  1. 2006 – 2018

    High touch

    We grew Advani Property Management into a boutique firm serving luxury buildings and the people who live in them. Every resident had a name, a face and a phone number that someone actually answered.

  2. 2018

    High tech

    A tech company out of the Bay Area saw the high-touch experience we were giving luxury tenants and bought our management company to put a high-tech platform behind it. In our view, the touch got lost along the way.

  3. Today

    High touch with high tech

    We’re back to do it right: the personal service our owners and residents remember, with modern tools underneath. Online rent, maintenance requests, screening and owner reporting, run by people who know your building by name.

No trust account

Your rent goes straight into your bank account.

Most managers collect rent into their own trust account and pay owners out later. We don’t hold your money. When your tenant pays, the rent is deposited directly into your account. No more wondering whether the tenant paid, and no waiting on a monthly statement to find out.

We’re developers and owners

We build, own and hold buildings ourselves, and everything we’ve learned from that goes into how we manage yours: what to fix, what to replace, and what makes a resident stay.

See our development work →

We launch buildings. And we’re doing it again.

We’ve handled some of the most successful apartment building launches in San Diego, taking brand-new buildings in Little Italy from empty to fully leased in a matter of months. Today we’re launching again, starting with The Columbian.

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Owner Tool

Should you hold, rent or sell?

Compare all three side by side, after tax, with your own numbers. Includes the home sale exclusion window, depreciation and our management fees.

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The Columbian · Now Leasing, Little Italy

1941 Columbia St. — our newest boutique building.

Studios to two-level, two-bedroom layouts, professionally managed by Advani Real Estate Group Property Management. This building has its own site & brand — see photos, floor plans, and the neighborhood.

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Over & Above

What owners get here that they don’t get elsewhere.

Most managers collect rent and forward invoices. We run your property the way we’d run our own, because a lot of what we manage started as our own.

01

A broker and attorney on your side

Your property is overseen by a licensed broker who is also a licensed attorney. Leases, notices and tough situations get a careful read, not a template.

02

Marketed like a listing

Professional photography, video and a dedicated page for every vacancy, the same way we market homes for sale. Better presentation means better residents, faster.

03

No markup on vendors

You pay exactly what we pay our trades. No hidden maintenance surcharges, no junk fees, and our pricing is published right on this page.

04

Rehab in-house

When a unit needs work between residents, we manage the renovation ourselves, from scope to finish, so it’s back on the market sooner.

05

Real people who answer

You and your residents deal with a small team that knows your building by name. Our reviews say it best: quick response, good people.

06

High tech, high touch

Online rent payments, maintenance requests, screening and owner reporting run through our platform, and rent is deposited straight to your bank account. Real people stand behind every screen.

07

Your investment, not just your rent roll

Because we also do sales, development and cost segregation, we can tell you when to hold, when to sell, and how to cut your taxes on the building you already own.

08

Local by design

We focus on Downtown, Little Italy, Mission Hills and the neighborhoods around them, where we live and work, instead of spreading thin across the county.

How We Think

We manage like long-term owners, because we are.

Most property managers come from property management. We come from building, developing and practicing law, and we bring all of it to protecting your investment.

When something breaks, we don’t just see a repair. We see its whole life. The real question is whether a fix quietly sets up a bigger loss down the road, or whether replacing it at the outset is the smarter money. Should that refrigerator be repaired once, twice, three times, or replaced today? We won’t always be right, but because we’ve built and developed properties ourselves, that call is informed, and it’s often the difference between revenue and loss.

Judgment cuts both ways. Two HVAC companies once bid a building’s system as a full replacement, roughly eight to ten thousand dollars each. A third contractor, recommended to us and still one of our trades nearly a decade later, called it a band-aid: a few hundred dollars that would buy a few years. The owner agreed. Ten years later, that unit is still running.

The skill isn’t only the repair call. It’s knowing which contractor will tell you the truth, and having spent years building those relationships so your property gets them.

Everyone wants to maximize rent. The difference is how you earn it. We would rather give residents real value that raises the value of the property than push a rent number the unit doesn’t justify.

In practice that means comfort and quality of life: iPads that control lighting and sound, ceiling fans where there was no air conditioning and HVAC added where it makes sense, closets built out custom with lighting instead of two bare rods. We invest in making the existing space genuinely better, not just chasing more square footage.

A resident who loves where they live stays longer, takes care of the home and justifies the rent. That’s why we work best with owners who think long-term, the way we do.

We’ve taken brand-new buildings from empty to leased for developers across San Diego, and we bring our sales playbook with us. We’re known for sales, and sales agents market harder than most rental managers ever do.

So we put the whole brokerage community to work for your building. Agents earn a referral fee just for sending us a renter who signs a lease. They don’t have to show the unit, drive over, pay for parking or do any of the legwork. They send the name; we do the rest; they get paid.

Once residents move in, we build a sense of belonging: events, a social feel, and a reason to want to stay. Each property has its own assigned team, so residents deal with a face and a name, not a faceless building.

That also protects you. We stand between you and the day-to-day, so you’re never the one cornered as “the landlord” or saying no in person. We handle the hard conversations so you don’t have to.

What Owners Say

Quick response time. Knowledgeable. Good people.

“I’ve been with Advani Realty for over 4 years now (2 separate units) and have had a great experience. Prem Advani, and Sidnev Muldrow in particular, assisted me in some very challenging situations and were able to resolve them seamlessly.”

Andres F.

“Sid and Advani Property Management were such a pleasure to work with — prompt, professional, and extremely helpful during the entire process. The properties she has to show are not your run-of-the-mill apartment complexes.”

Ryan N.

“I rented one of the properties they manage in Little Italy. The property was absolutely beautiful, top of the line, and well maintained. To be honest, I have never lived somewhere managed this well.”

Mamie R.
Management Fees

Simple, published pricing. No junk fees.

SINGLE-FAMILY HOME
8.25%

of monthly rent collected.

2–4 UNITS
6%

of monthly rent collected, plus a $500 lease-up fee per new tenancy.

MULTIFAMILY · 5+ UNITS
5%

of monthly rent collected, plus a $500 lease-up fee per new tenancy.

No junk fees, and no markup on vendors or trades — you pay what we pay. We also handle full unit rehab in-house when a property needs work between tenants.

Property Management Correspondence

2020 Columbia St., #193
San Diego, CA 92101

Main Office

8889 Rio San Diego, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92108
858.829.7688