Peter LohmannAll Things Residential Property Management | CEO of RL Property Management | Co-Founder of Crane

The real value of NARPM isn’t what most people think 💡

28 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief commentary, Peter Lohmann argues that the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM) still offers a high-value proposition, but its benefits are poorly communicated to non‑members. He notes that while outsiders might cite advocacy, forms, and education as the main perks, the true heart of NARPM’s value lies in the peer‑to‑peer connections forged at conferences, which translate into ongoing informal support—like texting fellow managers for advice on unusual situations. Lohmann challenges the association to find a way to convey this relational benefit to every professional property manager.

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I think the value proposition of NARPM has stayed relatively the same, which is high. It's still really high. Yes. But I think the way it's being communicated does it a disservice. I think if you were to ask a random professional property manager who wasn't a NARPM member, like, what would you get out of joining NARPM? They would probably say something about advocacy and like maybe some forms and some education, but it's that those connections that you form with other property managers at the conferences and you now you're just texting them when you have a weird And like, that's the, that's the heart of it. It's like, how can we communicate that to, to every professional property manager?