Peggy Sanchez, Director of Property Management with RiverRock Real Estate Group. is one of our lifetime members – 34 years of membership! This month we interviewed Peggy to learn more about what she finds valuable about her BOMA OC and BOMA International membership and her aspirations, motivations, and goals . Scroll below to read the full interview!
BOMA OC: What company are you with?
Peggy: RiverRock Real Estate Group
BOMA OC: What services does your company provide?
Peggy: RiverRock is a privately owned, client-centric property and asset management company for office, retail, mixed-use & industrial properties throughout California and Arizona. Our construction management services extends beyond our managed portfolio into the Pacific Northwest and Colorado and our Accounting Services extend beyond California and Arizona available on a national basis.
BOMA OC: What does your BOMA membership mean to you?
Peggy: BOMA has been instrumental in my road to success as a property manager and obtaining leadership positions. I became involved in BOMA early on in my career and BOMA not only kept me on the cutting edge knowledge of my industry but it was a platform that helped me grow personally and provide me so many substantial connections which always led to opportunities.
BOMA OC: What are three lessons that you have learned the hard way?
Peggy:
- The difference between being a manager and leader.
- Leadership is not a certificate you can achieve but an art on how you inspire and motivate people and helping them unleash their potentials.
- Not speaking up and communicating my feelings
BOMA OC: What are three traits that you admire of your closest mentors?
Peggy: BOMA has been instrumental in my road to success as a property manager and obtaining leadership positions. I became involved in BOMA early on in my career and BOMA not only kept me on the cutting edge knowledge of my industry but it was a platform that helped me grow personally and provide me so many substantial connections which always led to opportunities.
- Pushing me to my limits
- The vision to look beyond the present and see a better solution
- Patience
BOMA OC: What is your “personal motto”?
Peggy: Never give up, never stop learning and never quit.
BOMA OC: What is your proudest moment?
Peggy: I have had many proud moments but just to pin it down to a business moment is when I received my BOMA Life Time Achievement Award in 2000 and my mom, who wasn’t living here at the time came from Germany and was at the event and to see that gleam in her eyes and her smile and see how proud she was of me, made me so very proud which will always be a treasured memory.