Since 2018 — one family, one neighborhood at a time.
Ox was founded on a simple idea: manage other people's buildings the same way you'd manage your own — started by a family who still owns and operates properties alongside the clients they serve.
Our Story
It started, like a lot of good things in LA real estate, as a leasing operation.
Back in 2018, we were a small residential brokerage focused on filling units across Los Angeles. Over the next several years, we became a familiar name in LA leasing, working with management companies and owners all over the city.
Leasing teaches you a lot about a building. You see how it shows. You hear what tenants are actually frustrated about. You watch how long it takes for someone to fix a leak, return a deposit, or pick up the phone. After a few years of leasing for dozens of different management companies, a pattern was hard to miss: most of them weren't very good at it. Slow response times, sloppy books, deferred maintenance until something broke, and a general sense that nobody was paying close attention to the actual asset.
Around the same time, we started acquiring buildings of our own — small multifamily properties across LA, growing into a portfolio of around 100 units. When it came time to manage them, the obvious move was to hire one of the management companies we'd been leasing for. It went about how you'd expect. The same problems we'd watched from the outside started showing up in our own operating statements.
So we started managing in-house. Not as a business — just because nobody else was going to run our buildings the way we wanted them run. We built it the way an owner actually wants a building managed: tight on R&M, fast on tenant requests, clean books, and a real person on the other end of the phone. As the in-house portfolio grew, other landlords we knew started asking if we'd manage theirs too.
In 2022, we made it official. Ox Property Management launched as its own company — taking the operating discipline we'd been refining on our own buildings and offering it to outside owners. The arrangement is clean: our sister brokerage continues to handle leasing across the portfolio, and Ox runs everything else — operations, maintenance, accounting, owner reporting, the unglamorous day-to-day work of keeping a building running well. So while Ox is a 2022 company on paper, the operating muscle behind it had been built up over years of running our own portfolio.
Where we are now
We own and operate roughly 100 units in-house and manage additional buildings for outside landlords across LA — Mid-City, West LA, Hollywood, the Westside — with a recent expansion into Long Beach. Most of our outside owners came to us the same way: they'd been burned by a previous manager and wanted someone running their building who actually owns buildings themselves.
Why it matters that we're owners
Most management companies get paid to keep buildings running. We get paid to keep buildings running, and we sign the same kind of year-end operating statements you do. That changes how every decision gets made. When we tell you a repair can wait, it's because we'd let it wait at our own building. When we tell you to replace something, it's because we'd replace it at ours.
It's a small distinction. It shows up everywhere.
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If you own residential property in Los Angeles and want a manager who treats your building the way they treat their own — get in touch.