I have worked with Karen for almost 10 years. Karen has been one of the most sophisticated clients I have worked with in terms of construction knowledge and property management. She consistently provides detailed feedback as we perform work for her. In addition to being very fair and honest, she expects a lot from her vendors, which makes her excel at her job. She has her client’s best interest at hand, and consistently delivers good customer service based on our work requirements. You will get 100% effort every time with Karen.

I have known Karen on both a professional and a personal basis for any years. I constantly have been amazed by her seemingly boundless optimism and tenacious determination not to surrender to adversity. She is a broadly gifted and enthusiastic individual with strong people/sales skills and flourishes in situations requiring customer or client contact. Karen’s years of experience gleaned from a variety of service and management capacities have given her considerable understanding and appreciation of small businesses, their organization and practices, and their concomitant liabilities and rewards. She is an initiator and a creative problem solver. Her clear thinking, her ability to remain focused on a goal and her forthright communication skills make her an asset to any organization.

I have had the pleasure of working with Karen for over a year and recommend her highly for proactive leadership. She provided asset management for our portfolio of over 1,000,000 square feet of Class A Office Buildings as well as having onsite presence at Paradise Village Office Park III, a 270,000 sf Office Project, and Westwood Office Center, a 92,000 sf Office Project. Karen recommended and executed added value changes which improved our operating costs and leasability of properties. I am very pleased to provide a full recommendation on behalf of Karen Kitchens.

Karen Kitchens provided asset management on two of Sun Life of Canada’s retail properties and industrial asset in Phoenix, AZ. In that time she established excellent relationships with all tenants and improved operations significantly. Her efforts have greatly increased the value of all three properties by completing a number of capital projects, providing leasing efforts and reevaluating unnecessary projects budgeted by previous personnel. Additionally, the retail properties had significant arrears and by working with the tenants and their accounting departments, she was able to bring all tenants current. These amounts included amounts going back over three years.

I would like to take this opportunity to provide an excellent reference for Karen Kitchens. Since Karen has taken over the asset management of our buildings, we have experienced a number of positive changes in our common areas. Also, her quality and expedient level of services that is given when calling for assistance and concerns is “like no other”. Personally, I have immense respect for Karen. She is hard working and an outgoing individual with the drive to accomplish anything she sets her mind to.

I have come to know and respect Karen through collaboration with myself and other Project Officers and Branch Chiefs in managing Grants in the Weatherization Program of the DOE. She has effective applied her broad range of education, knowledge and management experience to advance our programmatic and management goals. Due to this experience, she is proficient in analyzing complete situations or challenges and translating them into clear and manageable tasks. She consistently provides solutions and accomplishments for the DOE. Karen is professional, practical, positive and an adaptive team player that can thrive in any environment.