Authentic Real Estate and Property Management -

Michelle Close

I must share our incredible experience of working with Greg Flowers. Greg is an excellent real estate agent. He listens to your needs and he is willing to do the leg work to help you find the home you can afford and that you want. Finding a place in the current Santa Cruz market is hard for teachers and those who do work in all areas of education and social services. Greg is delightful, has a great sense of humor, makes real connections with his clients and is knowledgable and professional in every interaction. He will follow up and follow through. Call or request him by name.

Rebecca Yu

Greg Flowers is an excellent property manager!

Long story short: I started leasing my SF rental without a PM during the peak of the pandemic and got some of the most difficult tenants out there. I hired Greg because I had a tenant who disappeared and I didn’t want to deal with it. Greg listened and helped me get through each of the crazy incidents caused by my tenants.

I highly recommend Greg because of his professionalism and patience. He will try his best to solve any of your tenant issues!

Sara Petty

Greg Flowers is very knowledgeable as a realtor and property manager and currently manages 2 properties for me. He was able to quickly lease my property to qualified tenants in a difficult market. As this is a family home it was very important to me to find the right tenant and he found a wonderful family! He is extremely responsive to questions and concerns and I am very confident in his handling of any and all issues that we encounter. I highly recommended Greg for property management.

Heather Diaz

We rented an apartment in Santa Cruz and we worked with Greg. He was professional from the moment we interacted with him, and very responsive. The process was smooth and we loved our apartment. If something happened, Greg is always on top of it and the issue was resolved in a timely manner. I would recommend working with Greg.

Vickie Yee

Greg was our property manager for 2 years and found us excellent tenants. He delivered the rent on time without issue. He was always available for questions or concerns from both owner and tenant, and his rate was the most competitive in the market.

ari salomon

Greg helped me find a tenant for my rental unit and did a great job. He was very responsive and his many years of experience came through when I peppered him with a constant stream of questions as I am prone to do. He is courteous and professional and I would not hesitate to work with him again.

Ralph L.

Perfect property manager (+ coach!) for a first time landlord!

When I purchased my first rental property a 3 years ago, I spent a lot of time researching property managers. I called and interviewed a wide range of PMs, from local area "big" proper managers with a small army of staff, to really large tech companies who provide property management services, and then I came across Greg/Authentic Property Management on Yelp. I asked the same set of questions to all PMs I interviewed and Greg was the ONLY one who took the time to explain to me how things work, what to look out for when we evaluate tenants, where things could go wrong and examples of what he's done in the past to help solve issues.

For me, it was not as much about the rate he charged (which obviously still matters and Greg was very fair), but it was more about finding someone who is very seasoned, is very hands on personally, can be patient with me (as a new landlord) and can teach me things about being a property investor (whether it's the PM side, or just where and how to find more yield and to improve my return). This was important as my rental is a high-end property charging ~$5k/mo so if things go poorly with tenants, I have a lot to lose financially.

The bigger local PMs didn't work for me as it felt like I didn't have a relationship with anyone and my property would just get farmed out. The tech companies definitely didn't work as I was just talking to someone junior behind a computer screen who is trying to run a property management business using software "at scale" (which translates into no service).

Over the last 3 years, we've had 2 tenants and both were fairly high maintenance and demanding. Greg handled every tenant request/complaint professionally and patiently. He personally attended to every situation, often times in person when he didn't need to be. He shielded me from many issues and saved a ton of my time and money. But he also engaged me when he felt that I needed to be involved.

Net-net is that both tenants had ZERO issues with rent payments or tardy rents. Neither tenants left any damages other than normal wear and tear. And most importantly, for a high end rental, I did not have a single month of vacancy since hiring Greg/Authentic!

As a first time landlord working with a property manager, I couldn't have asked for a better experience. I intend to continue working with Greg well into the future and as I continue to increase my rental portfolio.

HIGHLY recommend!

Joseph Go Chua

Working with Greg is awesome, really attentive and really responsive. Is super professional is overall an awesome guy. Rented in Berkeley over the course of the last year and had just a really positive experience. When things would pop up (as they do when living in a home) he was able to get someone to come look at it pretty much immediately.

Would definitely seek out using them again if Im every in the market!