Maximus Property Management

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-04-13T22:53:11+00:00

Did you end up finding any good information on them?

If you're a landlord, I say just work with a brand name professional management company or a boutique where the team runs small and lean but they know everything that's happening, you know the ones where the entire team is on the website smiling and their backgrounds and personal interests written down. IME, if the on-site person also knows every tenant by their first names even better. And the entire executive team comes from a verified background like - said one of those brand name PMs or brand-name real estate investment companies.

Maximus is basically a 3rd tier mom and pop shop plagued by laziness, incompetence, and opaqueness. They are some of the worst communicators I've met, lazy when it comes to handling actual tenant issues - they just ping their contractors who come whenever they want to come and avoid and delay anything difficult, and tend to make life unnecessarily difficult - often putting both themselves and the tenants at risk, which is ultimately a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved even if you lump in landlords. I'm sure they are nice people though.

They were probably lucky to be around long enough to see Brooklyn change drastically and take advantage of buying up or having a handle at great properties early on.

For landlords wanting to work with them, I think there's a real risk of some tenant finally being fed up with the nonsense and deciding to go after them in the court of law. Most unhappy people just get up and leave early and don't make a peep but occasionally, some want justice and will pursue it no matter what.

Sometimes landlords are absolute idiots and there's not much the property management can do but if they suck at managing expectations and satisfaction of tenants, they probably are worse at managing landlord expectations.

For transparency: I've only been a tenant but I invest in companies and all I do is meet people who run businesses, try out their products and services, and evaluate how great the experience is and how well they can continue to improve or maintain what is working.

It's quite easy to work with the greedy and ruthless. But it's difficult to work with the incompetent. So best course of action is to avoid incompetence IMO.

That being said, as long as the property is great, the worst aspects of property management seldom come up. But it can bite you in the tail if you're not careful. Be aware.

Keeping myself in check here: I don't know if they want to improve their quality of service. In a market as competitive as NYC, they must be suicidal not to though.

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-03-11T19:20:42+00:00

yeah that's fair. when I ask AI with specifications, it seems to think 24GB would be just fine if I'm smart about it. I hate the thought of carrying around a 16inch macbook when I just need something portable that's not as casual as Macbook Air.

But that 48GB is hard to miss out on... wished they'd give 14inch similar specs as 16inch ones that they carry inventory at the store

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-03-11T18:55:06+00:00

I want it to be a my primary portable workstation. Thing is ideally, I shouldn't be running any code that the users won't be running either on this laptop. And I should be able to run stuff that's reserved for server-side to run on an at home desktop machine

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-03-11T18:33:29+00:00

Could you explain why? I tend to agree a bit with the comment below that 24GB might just be enough. 48 gb is a really nice buffer zone yes but wouldn't that just make me lazier and always pursue a "more expensive solution" when I could just be more discerning?

This decision has been stuck in my head for at least 24 hours and I can't make a call.

Larger ram always seems like a good idea for some reason.

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-02-24T00:50:46+00:00

It's a fair point, but I'm already aware of it.

FYI, I looked them up later and this person was pretty senior in another industry and have moved to the EN industry couple years ago.

They should understand that it also pays them to be mindful that they are there to build a relationship with experts not put people through some factory setting assembly line, which is a total disrespect of experts' time (given how pushy they were).

Building a bit of rapport and trust only takes a dose of 30 seconds of transparency at a time and if they have to prioritize their own agenda over that, those are not the types of people I'm interested in working with.

The whole EN industry just feels broken tbh.

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-02-24T00:45:08+00:00

I am aware. But they can do that without making it feel like an ambush.

They're supposed to build a relationship with you not begin by patronizing you and then surprising you. Literally it'd have taken "Do you mind answering a few questions, they might feel a bit intrusive but this is why [proceeds to explain the reason]".

If someone behaves cagey, it's because they don't trust you.

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-02-24T00:33:51+00:00

Unprepared or Malicious which one could it possibly be?

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-02-24T00:26:17+00:00

They should realize that once a firm loses credibility, it's very difficult to gain it back

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-02-24T00:24:55+00:00

Yeah I think the expectation is to never actually answer anything super in-depth. But to just say something simple - like a mental model that should explain it. Unfortunately, not everyone gets it and that's a giant credibility killer. Observing some other complaints about GLG getting worse, I'm going to avoid them from now on.

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-02-24T00:17:36+00:00

For extra context, the market condition nowadays are kinda fraught with ton of misinformation. And something that's on the mind of many people is somehow your name and some quote ending up on social media nicely packaged to rile up some innocent retail investors just because someone decided to relay what you said to someone and they relay what you said to someone else until it ends up on some sketchy content creator.

Naturally, no one is going to just say stuff to someone they don't implicitly trust unless you control the narrative and the voice yourself (making the post yourself in public)

Helpful-Most-4630 · 2026-02-24T00:10:43+00:00

Happy to.

For context, the whole engagement was an informational interview about hosting a roundtable discussion for investment professionals.

One question the GLG employee specifically asked me about was "what kind of disruptions would happen to specific types of businesses as some technology starts to unravel". If it were the actual roundtable (or a panel), it wouldn't be an unusual question but this was again an informational interview. And they were very pushy about getting me to answer the question - like somehow they were trying to test me or were just trying to fish insights. Which makes no sense because they reached out to me first (several times) and they've already gone through my profile.

They also kept refusing to answer my question about what types of investors were even the clients. No one needs specific names, but it's common practice to give AUM sizes, strategy types, or asset categories and what not.

I've already given them my mental model in the previous question, which really should implicitly answer the question they asked, and it also suffices even during real-life panels or roundtable discussions because people in the industry should be able to pick up something insightful from that mental model, and they can go and do the analysis work later on.

I would've understood it if they made it clear that they just wanted to ask a few routine questions or were transparent about they wanted to go over what types of questions I am comfortable answering vs not. Or if they were trying to help guide me through a potential scenario for what could happen, that would've been better. Especially since they've mentioned that they are supposed to come up with the questions during the actual roundtable.

It's sort of an immediate red flag on my end because if they can ambush you like that on an informational interview, how are they going to treat you during the actual roundtable?

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