Company

Select Key Holder's®, a division of Harbor Property Management Group, is a highly specialized established residential and commercial property management group servicing clients in Fairfield, Litchfield, Greater Hartford and New Haven Counties Connecticut, Westchester, New York, New York City, Long Island and the resort community known as The Hamptons, and is a member of the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM). The group specializes in the complete management of mid to large size luxury homes and residential estates on up to twenty acres. Select Key Holder's® has established relationships with high net worth and ultra-high new worth clientele and Fortune 500 corporations throughout the continental U.S. managing their corporate residential properties, while their executives are away from the property on business assignment. Our clients include executives from the following industries: Investment Banks, Commercial Banks, Insurance Companies, Computer Software Companies, Pharmaceutical Companies and Aerospace & Defense Companies, to name a few.

A Few of Our Corporate Family of Clients

UBS
Morgan Stanley
Smith Barney
Greenwich Capital
General Electric
Merrill Lynch
Mastercard
Abbott Laboratories
Lockheed Martin
IBM
PepsiCo
AT&T
Bayer Pharmaceuticals
JPMorgan Chase
American Express
Bristol Myers Squibb
Time Warner
Paine Webber Group
Eli Lilly & Company
Coldwell Banker

Select Key Holder's® also works together with leading real estate brokers throughout Connecticut and New York to meet the needs of their clients. Commonly a property is purchased or sold and left unoccupied for several months to a year and sometimes longer. Select Key Holder's®, a multi-faceted firm furnishes and maintains the integrity of the property through security, maintenance, and routine inspections of the property. Our services make the buying and selling experience simple, it offers the owner of the property peace of mind and satisfies most household insurance policies.

Select Key Holder's® has become the leading residential estate property management group managing estates with an average value of $1.5 million. The group is projecting to have a banner year managing a portfolio of $300 million in residential property alone in 2010. Select Key Holder's® works closely with domestic and international repatriate and expatriate corporate executives and their firms to meet their personal and professional needs while making the often complicated residential transition to their new home.

Select SettledIN

Select SettledIN, is a virtual concierge service designed for the homeowner's integration into their new home. SettledIN, is a virtual service that presents the homeowner a prototype of how their home will look furnished, prior to the date that they take occupancy. A Select SettledIN staff architect creates interior designs to meet the client's needs.

1. Always Give Your House an Occupied Appearance: If your house looks occupied while you are away on business or pleasure, would-be burglars will assume that someone is home and will move onto the next house. Most professional burglars are in the business of getting in and out, they don’t want a confrontation, so give the impression that someone is always home with interior/exterior lighting. Keep the place illuminated. Keep the radio and television on a timer to go on and off at various times of the day!

2. Don’t Run Electrical Cords Through Windows during Christmas: About 81% of burglaries occur through the first floor. Remember a thief is looking for the path of least resistance. A window slightly ajar with an electrical cord is often a burglar’s point of entrance in to your home.

3. Don’t Rely On Friends, Neighbors Or Family To Manage Emergencies That May Arise At Your House: Responding to a home emergency at all hours of the day is not only burdensome, it is also a monumental responsibility. We share the story of how many of our clients come to us after the fact. They thought that they could rely on a neighbor, friend or relative and when an emergency occurred, they were unresponsive or did not know how to take appropriate corrective action. At Select Key Holder's® Home Surveillance, we are experienced in responding 24/7 in virtually every conceivable emergency from an alarm call to a gas leak to a broken pipe. We work with local law enforcement and are on call. While these occurrences are sometimes uncontrollable, at Select Key Holder's® we take preventative measures to avoid disasters like these. So, ask yourself, are your neighbors, friends, or relatives capable of responding in an emergency.

4. Insurance Coverage On Your Empty Home. Are You Truly Covered? Most homeowner insurance policies carry a stipulation stating that insurance coverage is subject to being void if your house is left unoccupied for a given period of time. Also, insurance premiums on vacant properties can be significantly higher than on occupied homes. Other factors, such as reduced coverage or cancellation due to vacancy can be averted by having a key holder service perform routine surveillance.

5. How to Make the House Look Occupied: Put lights on multi-functional timers, altering light pattern. Rotate blinds and curtains. Leave a radio on loud, Move the vehicles around Contact the Post Office and Paper Delivery & put a hold on the mail and newspaper. During the winter, have the driveway & walk way shoveled. Don’t leave a message on your answering machine indicating that you are away.

6. Security System Working? A recent study showed that 41% of alarmed homes in Connecticut that were burglarized, the security system was not working. Have your security system calibrated three-times per year, including contact on windows, doors, and sensors. Run a test on your system once a week.

7. Don’t Leave Apparatus Near the House: Keep ladders, tools and any apparatus that could give a would-be thief help into your home locked in the garage of your house, not outside. Remember, thieves can be creative.

8. Don’t Leave Keys In Hiding Spots: Burglars know where to look for keys in popular hiding spots.

9. Don’t Give Burglars Easy Access: Make sure all trees and shrubs are trimmed near all doors and windows where intruders might hide.

10. Secure the house: Install dead bolt locks, window locks, bars placed into the tracks of sliding doors.

Other Tips

11. Prevent Disaster: Turn gas off, flush toilets, run water to avoid pipes freezing, monitor climate/heat.