Readers’ Choice Awards Spotlight

Published September 2024

     Editor’s Note: FLCAJ would like to congratulate these four outstanding 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards winners! (For a full list of 2024 RCA winners, please read the March 2024 issue or visit www.fcapgroup.com/flcaj/readers-choice/.

Sentry Management

Diamond Level Winner—Management Companies
(Winner 2024 and ten previous RCA wins)

     At Sentry Management our purpose is to nurture communities we are all proud to call home. Our reliable services and team-based approach put our communities first, consistently enhancing property values by supporting the board’s endeavors and improving the lifestyles of residents.

     As we’ve grown over the last four decades to become one of the nation’s largest full-service management companies, we have never forgotten that our roots are always local, and our community always comes first.

     Sentry Management makes six distinct promises to every community we serve, ensuring we deliver on what matters most to board members: providing reliable communication, facilitating great meetings, being present in the community, delivering on-time and accurate financial reports, offering streamlined vendor coordination, and providing simplified technology.

     Headquartered in Florida with 15 offices in the Sunshine State alone, Sentry Management’s team of nearly 1,000 experienced professionals embraces the honor to serve our communities every day. We empower our community managers with comprehensive training, dedicated support teams, and constantly-evolving technology. Sentry even boasts a dedicated and robust training and development department known as Communities College, which provides high-quality in-house onboarding and ongoing training for Sentry employees as well as our board members.

     Underscoring our commitment to company culture and employee engagement, the Orlando Sentinel named Sentry Management a Top Workplace in both 2022 and 2023 based on a survey of our Central Florida employees.

     We care deeply for the communities we serve and inspire our Sentry team members to further support these communities through our philanthropic program known as “Giving SMILES.” Sentry also donates to local charitable organizations, raising over $100,000 per year through fundraising events. Sentry Management was also named one of the top philanthropic companies in Central Florida by the Orlando Business Journal for the past four years.

     For more information on community association management services, locations, and careers at Sentry Management, call 407-788-6700 or visit www.sentrymgt.com.

SOCOTEC

Diamond Level Winner—Construction, Engineering, and Building Services
(Winner 2024 and nine previous RCA wins)

     SOCOTEC, a leading TIC (testing, inspection, and certification) company, optimizes the integrity and sustainability of built assets through highly technical consulting services. Our clients rely on our holistic teams of engineers, architects, expert witnesses, and construction advisors to solve their most complex challenges throughout the entire lifecycle of a project, around the globe.

     SOCOTEC has an extensive proven track record of meeting our clients’ aesthetic and performance goals while never losing sight of the end user experience. SOCOTEC has great knowledge of the Florida market for the past 28 years and is well versed in all phases of the built environment, from construction projects to upgrades, maintenance, or repositioning of existing buildings. Our experienced team guides clients through the most technical issues related to the design, procurement, and execution of building envelope systems and develops project-specific, industry-proven, durable, and sustainable design solutions.

     As always, it’s our privilege to serve each of you and your associations.

     SOCOTEC is an international company, with 1,100 employees in 25 countries, and values commitment and excellence, entrepreneurship and innovation, accountability, and social responsibility.

     For more information on SOCOTEC, call 239-514-4100 or visit www.socotec.us.

ONR

Platinum Level Winner—Technology and Communications
(Winner 2024 and two previous RCA wins)

     ONR’s story is a journey of innovation from a humble start to becoming a leader in the community management software industry. It all began in 2018 when visionary entrepreneurs Carlos Guzmán, Alan Guvoschi, Nicolás Turbay, and Ed Rodriguez set off to redefine how building associations operated. The founders would meet in a Miami garage to dream of transforming community management through a visionary approach.

     The early exploration later became refined software, taking ONR quickly up the ranks and turning it into an indispensable tool for building associations across the country. The company has evolved to tackle challenges at every level, ensuring seamless operations—from revolutionizing package handling and enabling electronic amenity reservations and payments to streamlining front desk requests or facilitating electronic voting.

     Today more than 1,000 condominiums and HOAs benefit from ONR. Thanks to its ever-expanding features and a dedicated team of over 50 rockstars around the globe committed to delivering practical solutions, ONR caters to the unique needs of digitally forward property managers, board members, owners, and residents.

     Yes, the story of ONR is similar to that of some of the top companies in the country; it’s an example of how an idea, when combined with an entrepreneurial spirit, determination, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to a vision, can manifest a new reality that changes lives and communities.

     For more information about ONR call 888-362-9711 or visit onrapp.com.

Plastridge Insurance Services

Platinum Level Winner—Financial Services
(Winner 2024 and three previous RCA wins)

     Plastridge Insurance Services is honored to have won the Platinum Level Readers’ Choice Award from FLCAJ. For over 105 years we have served the South Florida community, and our condominium and HOA association division has provided risk management and insurance programs for over 1200 community associations throughout Florida. Our specialized Plastridge team assists clients in mitigating risk by analysis, design, marketing, and placement of casualty and alternative risk financing programs specific to property managers, builders, homeowners’ associations, and their boards of directors. We are proud to have on our team licensed and approved consultants to teach CAM (community association manager) continuing education classes.

     For more information on Plastridge Insurance, call 561-276-5221 or visit www.plastridge.com/hoa-condos/.