Cardinal Management Group

I have had the opportunity to work with Danny and Peter from Cardinal Management. They are real professionals who know the HOA industry. They represent themselves, their client HOAs, and Cardinal well. Their continued professionalism and keen understanding of the industry they serve make them successful property management professionals.

Today, I went to Cardinal to pick up some keys. Peter Ryan, the manager, found out that I had a credit on an account; it was a wonderful surprise for me! Great customer service. He didn’t have to check it out, yet he did! Thank you, Peter.

Rude, rough, and over stepping his authority, my husband would love the board to do business elsewhere.
This guy is in bed with the Board and gives short shrift to any owners unless they are board members.
Choose another Property Management Company

Danny with Cardinal Management is awesome. I live at a condo complex in Highland Park and we had a hideous management company before. The representative was rude, never responded in a timely manner and charged fees illegally. Danny is always professional and responds quickly and is always respectful. He does his job and for that I am very grateful.

Danny Padilla is an awesome person to work with is a very honorable person he honors his word in every aspect and he takes care of business extremely professional and very well spoken.
Please contact him for your management needs he also best vendors to get the job done in a timely manner… Thank you for the great extreme Danny

I live in a complex in highland park. We switched to Cardinal from a terrible HOA company last year and we expected that Cardinal would do better. Well, it kinda did at the beginning (sort of). Then it hit back to reality. When you have issues and you need to talk to Danny and his crew, what happens is they don’t help you solve the issues. Most of time, Danny would just say, talk to the building maintenance guy or come to the next HOA meeting (which happens ONCE A MONTH. what happens if you have urgent issues?). Another typical answer he would give you is: we can’t decide anything, as everything has to go through the HOA board members. Even for simple things like putting up a simple sign at our common areas to indicate hours of use for the bbq grills which he and the HOA agreed on two months ago. When he did not response to our email inquires, we followed up at the monthly HOA meeting. He said, well, because the HOA board has not reached consensus. At that moment, you just wanna point him to the meeting notes from two months ago, and ask him what is the fact and what is efficiency.
So why are we paying you as our complex manager? What do people hire a management company for? After many rounds of frustrating communication with him, I only can conclude that you can’t rely him to solve anything, all he does is pushing responsibility to others, your neighbors, your maintenance guy, or your HOA board.
Also very recently the neighborhood experienced mail theft. When people made suggestions on fixing security cameras and other measures at the HOA meeting, he was basically saying it won’t help, because the footage will only be turned over to USPS who will refuse to conduct investigation. He told us that the police won’t handle such issues, even when the camera caught people stealing your mails. How he responded to us is very unprofessional and his reactions to some of our inquires were even passive aggressive.

As a Paint Manufacture Vendor Cardinal Management Group is by far the most attentive I have ever worked with. They truly set the bar HIGH Michael Valenzuela Vista Paint Corp

The A/​C on our unit went out and Peter knew an excellent contractor who got the problem solved right away!

I am president of our HOA and Cardinal Management surpasses our other management companies with their expertise HOA matters promptly.

I think this company is terrific. We’ve had probably about six or seven property management companies managing the Surfwood Monterey property over the past 20 years. Cardinal is, by a large margin, the best I’ve seen. They proactively respond to problems (really the only reason ‘why’ you have a property management company) and the communication is excellent (better than excellent, actually).
I love and appreciate being kept informed of issues and the current status of their resolution, in case the resolution time is other than expected (parts needed for repairs don’t arrive on the date expected, plumbers are delayed for X reason, etc.).
If you are considering hiring them for property management, I would highly recommend them.

I am an Escrow Officer and work with many property management companies. Danny Padilla is by far one of the most responsive and professional property managers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Often times I have to wait days to hear back from a property manager regarding time sensitive information. Danny responds immediately. Our lender requested a specific HOA certification form which was being provided by
…something out of his control to provide, yet he still made every effort possible to contact the right people to help expedite the completion of the form. He even found time to correspond with the realtors and lender… and they were several. I was impressed.

About 3 weeks ago I had called Danny asking for help with my gate in front of my unit. His company was not set to start managing our building till July 1. I knew for sure the old management group was not going to help me. By mid day Danny had arranged for a handy man to come fix my gate because he knew how dangerous it was for it to be left broken like that. I appreciated him because he really didn’t need to help me. And I appreciated his efforts and how he prioritized my issue. I highly recommend their company

Danny and his team at Cardinal Management are amazing! I’ve lived in my bldg for 10+ years and I have seen many management companies come and go and Cardinal is by far the best I’ve seen. Danny is very responsive, professional, and gets it done. I absolutely recommend him and his team to anyone!

I am on the Board of Surfwood HOA, a 92-​unit condo in Monterey Hills.
Danny Padilla and Cardinal Management Group have been remarkable and very prompt in carrying out difficult demands of the Board and the residents, fulfilling objectives of a property manager competently and expeditiously. They are thoroughly knowledgeable in resolving 100+ issues and they can be counted on to deliver. I cannot imagine a better management company to work with.

About one year into our current lease with Cardinal MG handling all the heavy lifting– these guys are great!!! Johanna has been so accommodating and helpful since day 1, we absolutely love her! Any issues we’ve had with the house have been taken care of quickly and painlessly thanks to her. Couldn’t have asked for a better management company!

Danny Padilla at Cardinal is a great property manager. He’s always been very helpful since the company took over our condo location. I can’t recommend him and his company enough.

I love these guys! we had a management company in our condo that used to drive me crazy. They weren’t helpful and they would’nt look into common area matters and would always tell you to do it yourself and the vendors they used were generally really bad.
Then we got Cardinal management group. They are awesome! Every time I see something that could use repair, it seems like the next day it’s been done without even notifying them. The keep the place up beautifully, always give you plenty of notice when we all need to coordinate on something, and they use great vendors! They are very prompt, courteous and great at what they do. I was the condo president about 10 years ago and this is about 180 degree improvement!

What a delight, dealing with the people at Cardinal Mgmt — they are very responsive and buttoned-​up.
Often I need to rely on the mgmt company who handles the affairs of an HOA to respond accurately to questions my buyers have. All too often, the mgmt co is difficult to reach and unprepared to answer questions.
Danny Padilla at Cardinal Management Group is great, he should be teaching a class to the rest of them,
Jodi Heath

They are my HOA management group for my apartment complex. Never have had any complaints and when my water heater broke last week they able to find a company to replace it within a day. It was nice not to miss a warm shower. Thanks Again!

I’ve dealt with this guy who works at CMG: Danny Padilla/​Cardinal Management Group/​Senior Property Manager & Partner.
For this unit: 898 Temple Terrace #325, LA, CA 90 042
My wife and I contacted and met up with Danny to take a look at the unit on Feb. 5^th. We loved it and told him that we will take it.
He said he won’t take others application before ours go through.
Danny emailed us the application first thing in the next morning on Feb. 6^th. We paid $ 105.00 to do the credit/​background check and emailed him all documents (paystub/​bank statement/​2 application) at the same time.
He emailed us in the afternoon saying he’s recommending us to the landlord.
It’s Feb 13^th today. Never heard back from him.
I emailed him 5 times /​texted him twice. No answer whatsoever.
It’s completely OKAY to say that we didn’t get the unit.
BUT it’s NOT OKAY to just ignore us.
Can’t believe we have wasted so much of my time/​money on this.
Do NOT deal with this management on anything.
EDIT: He JUST got back to us.