Trestle’s Kelli Smith Promoted to Advisory Community Association Manager
Trestle Community Management today announced the promotion of Kelli Smith, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, Home Developer, Large-Scale, Active Adult and Single-Family Practice Director, to Advisory Community Association Manager.
Trestle’s Advisory Community Managers and Practice Directors are required to have the most highly developed Community Management experience and skills in the industry. The role is reserved only for the most elite, exceptionally experienced, and credentialed people within the industry, who can bring advanced skills to the Practice area to serve Trestle Clients in an advisory capacity.
“Since joining Trestle, Kelli has fostered strong relationships with our Home Developer partners, overseen a Team of talented Community Association Managers and led her Clients through successful Board Member transitions. She has consistently modelled our focus on Professionalism and Execution,” said Bob Brencic, CMCA, AMS, MBA, President of Trestle Community Management. “I am excited to have someone like Kelli representing Trestle and leading our efforts in such a key role.”
What Services Does Trestle Offer?
Trestle is a firm exclusively dedicated to community association management services. Through specialized Practice Areas, every community type is able to work with an advanced Team who is fully prepared to help them succeed. Trestle does not stop there. In addition to this unparalleled approach to community association management, Trestle also tailors its services to its clients, offering three different scopes of work – Full Management Services, Management On-Demand, and Financial Only Management – each customizable to best serve its Client Associations.
What are Trestle’s Management Practices?
In order to best meet the needs of its Client Associations, Trestle has created specialized Practice Areas. Each Practice is dedicated to a specific Client-type. Through this model, Clients receive a high level of service provided by a devoted and specialized Team of experts.
Trestle has six dedicated Practice Areas:
- Condominiums,
- Mid-Rise, High-Rise and Estate Communities,
- Single-Family Home Communities,
- Large-Scale Communities,
- Active-Adult Communities, and
- Home Developers.
How Does Trestle Support its Clients?
To best serve its Client Associations, Trestle has established partnerships both inside and outside of the community management industry. Through these well-nurtured working relationships, Trestle has identified trustworthy service providers. Proactively anticipating the future needs of Washington state’s community associations, Trestle has also established relationships which allow it to access industry-leading technologies. These partnerships allow Trestle to implement exclusive and advanced technologies, meeting and exceeding its Clients’ needs. The value of these efforts is passed along to its Client Associations as they access vetted and dependable service providers and the most advanced services in the industry through Trestle.
Trestle understands the value of Board Member and Homeowner education, and as such, has prepared its own educational ongoing offerings. Trestle began releasing live Webinars and Webinars On-Demand for community members in 2021. An overwhelmingly positive response has shown the value in extending accessible resources to Clients. Through the full deployment of Trestle’s My-Community Web Portal, the firm provides comprehensive access to endless resources including its webinars, detailed management reports, and user-friendly services for architectural request processing, compliance monitoring, and more.
Trestle continuously invests in Team education and skill building. All of the firm’s Team Members attend continuing education courses offered inside and outside of the industry as well as conferences and educational seminars on an ongoing basis. Trestle approaches education holistically, ensuring that all Team Members are well-versed on the intricacies of the community association management services industry.
Through this approach, the firm holds one of the highest numbers of prestigious community association management credentials in Washington State including the Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA), Association Management Specialist (AMS) and Professional Manager of Community Associations (PCAM) designations.
In addition to Trestle’s website, the firm regularly connects on LinkedIn and Facebook.
Please contact Bob Brencic, CMCA, AMS, MBA, President of Trestle Community Management, at Bob@TrestleCM.com or (425) 454-6404 for additional details.
