Wesley Realty Group – Condominium Division

As a former Board member for 7 years who continues to own a condo in Logan Square, I can say that Nic Marin succeeded in collecting delinquencies, convincing vendors to be fair about their services billed when they failed to repair or maintain, and helped a great deal with our finances and organization.
In fact he was so valued by the Board that we changed to Wesley when he left Connected.
I note that four positive ratings have been «not recommended» by Unilocal so this gives a rather slanted view of the condo division. I do not question Unilocal’s actions but those reviews should be read by those wanting a full view of the company.
Having dealt with four different managers over my 8 years in our condo, I understand that a 79 unit with no on site personnel is difficult and challenging to manage, particularly when the Board members are unfamiliar with the rules governing the condo, disorganized and unresponsive to owners and naïve about managing a board of directors. I thought Nic did a good job handling the routine management and the interpersonal issues he faced in Wesley’s last year of management.
In summary, he and Wesley got the job done and those who chose to focus on the big picture rather than interpersonal issues appreciated his long service.

This is specifically about their condo division. One of their sewer vendors (VanDer Bosch) said we needed $ 6,500 worth of work under my unit, which would need to be ripped up to get to the pipe. I pushed for a 2^nd opinion independent of Wesley — as it turns out, the pipe in question is no longer in use and work wasn’t necessary.
Nicolas, Wesley Realty group’s contact for our association was amazingly horrid to work with. Despite Nicolas receiving info from VanDer Bosch re the work in October, Nicolas didn’t contact me about the repairs ’till January. He was then completely unresponsive to my emails regarding questions about the work.
When things seemed fishy to me and I pushed for a 2^nd opinion, Nicolas from Wesley Management was particularly feisty against this telling me I would need to spend my own money for a 3^rd opinion and that I HAD to go through one of their vendors for a 2^nd. He also said that around 6 — 7 of the buildings he manages have similar work done a year — It really smells like there might be something going on that’s unscrupulous between VanDerBosch and Wesley /​Nic.
The condo board of course over road this ridiculous demand and the 2^nd opinion uncovered that the work was unnecessary.
I do not trust Wesley Realty’s condo reps and do not recommend working with them
LESSON LEARNED — always get a 2^nd opinion independent from a condo association, that way you know it’s totally unbiased.