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RealtyCom Assistance during the Covid-19 Crisis

With so many residents working from their homes during the COVID-19 crisis, making sure your community offers the best internet speed possible to meet this growing demand is critical. If you’re experiencing a service issue, need to evaluate your services or need help with your Service Provider, RealtyCom Partners would be happy to help you at no charge and with no on-going obligation. RealtyCom can proactively approach broadband Service Providers with the opportunity to increase bandwidth to your communities and residents, or work out a contract amendment that could provide additional capacity for your properties.

In addition, the larger franchise operations like Comcast have committed to opening their wireless networks to non-subscribing customers so that wireless internet can be accessed by anyone. Comcast, Cox and Charter are also offering a promotional 60-days of free internet service for customers impacted, and others are also offering group discounts on equipment and services to enable school-aged children to complete their studies at home. We continue to work closely with the providers and our clients to ensure residents can take advantage of these services during this difficult time.

Please reach out to our team at info@realtycompartners.com for assistance.

By Annie Manfredi|2020-03-27T12:52:45-06:00March 27th, 2020|

FCC Policy Changes May Impact Multifamily Communities

By Phil Veletzos

The FCC continues to consider changing current policies related to apartment communities and other multitenant environments. What they adopt will have important impacts to private property rights of Owner-Operators, Managers and Developers of multifamily communities, as they construct and manage telecom facilities, and the Service Providers who deliver broadband services to their assets.

Limiting the Use of Telecom Infrastructure?

Among the issues up for consideration, are rules governing telecom infrastructure and if Owners should be prohibited from the current practice of granting limited use of infrastructure to select Service Providers at a property – either on an “exclusive” or “non-exclusive” basis.

Proponents of change argue that discontinuing the current practice of allowing limiting use contracts will spur competition by allowing many more Providers to use existing infrastructure. How many Providers would depend ultimately on the desires of the resident population. As conceived within one of the Nation’s first such initiatives (San Francisco Article 52) a resident’s express desire for a Service Provider would start a process where that provider, even over the objection of an Owner, could be granted the right to “install the facilities and equipment necessary to provide communication services or use any existing wiring” to reach the Resident’s […]

By Phil Veletzos|2020-03-20T13:13:48-06:00March 20th, 2020|

RCP Coronavirus Response

RealtyCom understands that our clients are working to ensure the safety and wellbeing of their employees and their communities during this most uncertain time. Likewise, RealtyCom is focused on protecting our employees while continuing to do ensure that we meet our client’s needs during the Coronavirus outbreak.

Some of our operations may be impacted as we work to accommodate staff who need to work remotely for their health and the health of their families. We further anticipate telecom Service Providers to have operational impacts to their revenue processing and contract processing departments. We are doing our best to mitigate any impacts to our clients. If you have any pressing needs or have any questions or anything we can help you with, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us personally.

Our personal mobile numbers are listed below and we’d be happy to help you in any way we can:

Cristy Boucher COO/VP, Client Services Email 415-488-3148	Phil Veletzos SVP, Construction Email 415-250-9783	Annie Manfredi CEO Email 415-595-7604
Catherine Ratté VP, Accounting Email 415-990-8561	Rush Blakely President Email 972-261-8280

Stay healthy,

Rush Blakely

By Rush Blakely|2020-03-13T18:00:41-06:00March 13th, 2020|