Ron Wenzel

After his family relocated him from Ft. Worth Texas to live in Dallas where he eventually graduated from HS from Noth Dallas High in 1984. Ron decided to enlist in the USAF Reserves where he served our country honorably and for next four years. While serving as an active service member in the U.S., Air Force Reserves Ron also attended Brookhaven Community College in Dallas for two years and eventually transferred to Texas Tech University where he earned his Bachelors of Arts Degree in American History in 1988. His original plan was to either attend law school and or to become an Attorney or even become a Teacher or a Professor. While growing up his entire childhood in and around the real estate and hospitality industry his more apparent and unknown passion at the time ended up becoming even more clear and was always, in the family business of managing, and owning real estate and hotels in Texas.

Rather than simply jumping into the family business head first, he ended up joining a relatively new property management company called American Residential Property Management Company and at the age of only 19 years old. He did this while he was still enrolled in school, and as a new Leasing Consultant, here is where it all began.

Not too long afterward, Ron was presented with yet another opportunity, and he decided to join a much larger group called Southmark Group and as a Leasing Director, and within his first six months he was promoted to an Assistant Property Manager.

Being the competitor that he was and still is today and also being eager to climb the corporate ladder he later joined Dallas based Windsor Mgt. Company and as a Site Manager and all by the age of 21.

Within one year he moved on to Wells Asset Management Company where at first, he was hired as a multi-site manager, and where he eventually became one of the youngest Vice Presidents in the apartment industries history there in Dallas, TX. He worked at Wells for the next ten years, and during his tenure there he oversaw approx.., 32+ multi-family assets in two different states.

There were approximately 24 other assets in and around the DFW area in addition to the assets located in Arizona totaling near 5000+ units.

All the while, Ron was passionate about being involved in the local, state, and national apartment association(s), volunteerism and on furthering his own education. He went on to earn his NALP, CAM, and CAPS designations through NAA during the late 1980s and on into the early 1990s. He also became an ARM and eventually a CPM both through the Institute of Real Estate Management. He is currently enrolled in college courses today, and he will soon receive his BS Degree in Property Management. He is also a CCIM candidate.

He also became very involved with the Dallas and Tarrant County Apt. Associations and later the Austin Apt. Association, serving in many and various positions from committees, committee chairmanships, the board of directors, the executive committee(s), instructing modules of both CAM and CAPSand as a delegate to TAA and NAA. While in Tarrant County, Ron won AATC’s “Professional Designate of the Year” award. He also served on the NAAEI Board of Directors as a member of the educational ciriculmumn development committee. He launched the first CAS module for NAA in Florida and also became a Lyseum Graduate and Designate from AAGO.

After leaving Wells Asset Management in 1998 Ron and his new business partners decided to buy two smaller property management companies and merge the portfolios into a mid-sized Dallas based and full-service property management company comprising of commercial, multi-family, single-family and HOA management assignments. They named their new company, Alternative Management Group, Inc.

Shortly after selling his stock and interest in 2000 and in leaving AMGI, Ron took a position in Austin as a District Manager for Allied Orion Real Estate Services, LLC., Where he helped to develop, oversee and lease-up 14 new Class A and B multi-family assets across the state of Texas. During his short two years there in Austin, Ron won the prestigious “Professional Designate of the Year” award from the Austin Apt Association.

Ron’s achievements finally got the attention of Archon Residential Management Group which was a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs in late 2001 where he was recruited and hired. He then decided to relocate back to Dallas, and within two years he was promoted and asked to relocate his family to Orlando, Florida. For the next six years, he oversaw all of the owned and operated assets of Archon\Goldman Sachs and across the entire state of Florida comprising of Core Plus and value add assets.

In 2010 Goldman Sachs sold their property management platform to Greystar Real Estate Partners where Ron stayed on as a Sr. RPM for the next five years overseeing a portfolio of more than 5000 units.

He also managed to find and carve out time to eventually become the Apartment Association of Greater Orlando’s President in 2010 and then, he eventually became the Florida Apartment Associations President in 2015. Prior to co-founding and establishing Vesteco Real Estate Management Services, LLC., in Orlando, Florida and as the firms new President and Managing Member, Ron worked in various positions ranging from Regional Manager, Area Vice President, and Regional Vice President and over the past 15 years for two other national multifamily companies.

Everything great that he has learned from the many great companies and leaders he has had the privilege of being associated with the Multifamily real estate industry was used to create an even better company called Vesteco. He has been responsible for overseeing a combined 50+ class A and B Multi-Family assets–with a combined portfolio of more than 15,000 units–located in Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Texas and Arizona.

Ron has over 38+ years of experience in the multifamily industry now, and he is also the Qualifying Broker for Vesteco Real Estate Management Services, LLC.