Three generations in Akron.
We're not going anywhere.
West HillManagement is a family operation. Not a franchise, not a corporation, not afund — two brothers who grew up in this business and decided to do it our ownway.
Where This Started
We didn't learn this from a seminar. We learned it from our dad.
We come from a family of property owners. Our grandparents were from Ellet. Our grandfather worked at Goodyear for 44 years and retired with rental property. He was a World War II veteran who came home and built a life for his family — part of that life was real estate.
Our father did the same thing. He worked at Goodyear, raised a family, and bought properties on the side. When we were kids, he'd take us to what he called "icky houses" — properties he'd picked up that needed serious work. He'd do most of the rehab himself, on nights and weekends, with us tagging along. We didn't realize it at the time, but we were kind of learning the business.
That's where West Hill comes from. Not from a real estate seminar or a YouTube course. From watching our dad have to replace a "commode" and find where water came from in the basement.
"He'd take us to what he called icky houses — properties he'd picked up that needed serious work. He'd do most of the rehab himself, on nights and weekends, with us tagging along."
The Long Way Home
We left. We built careers.
Then we came back.
Eventually we grew up and left. We went to college, built careers, and became small business owner-operators in our own right in Los Angeles, where we started our real estate journey — doing what we'd watched our dad and grandfather do, just 2,300 miles from home.
It didn't take long to realize that California isn't the right place to do it. The regulations kept stacking up. What should have been straightforward — buy a property, rehabilitate it, and rent it to great tenants — became an obstacle course of bureaucracy and new laws. We sold our LA property and started looking at where we could actually build something long term.
The answer was obvious. We came back to Akron in 2019.
Summit County is where we grew up, where our family still is, and where we understand the neighborhoods intimately. The houses here are the same kind of houses our dad used to buy — solid bones, good neighborhoods, properties that just need someone who cares enough to make sure the downspouts drain away from the structure. So that's what we do.
What We Learned
We could do it our own way.
The thing our dad taught us — without ever saying it directly — is that we could do it our own way.
When we take on a property, we start with the systems. The drainage, the foundation, the plumbing, and electrical. The stuff nobody sees but everyone depends on. If the bones aren't right, nothing else really matters. Once the systems are solid, we move to finishes — and we do those tastefully, with materials that hold up over time both literally and aesthetically – not everything needs to be "millennial gray" either. No builder-grade shortcuts. No cosmetic band-aids hiding real problems.
We've renovated quite a bit of properties this way, and we still manage every one of them today. We're not flippers or wholesalers. We're buying and holding properties with excellent tenants because we're building something that lasts — the same way our grandfather did.
3
Generations in Akron
64+
Properties Renovated
0
Properties Flipped
44
Years — Grandfather at Goodyear
Why It Matters
A different kind of buyer.
If you're thinking about selling a property to us, here's what you should know: we're not just buying your property. We're making it part of something our family has been building for three generations. That means we treat the process with respect, and we take care of what you've built.
We're not a faceless company or tech platform sending you postcards. We're two guys who grew up a few miles from your property, we know the neighborhoods because we live in them, and we plan to add value to the neighborhood.
That's a different kind of buyer. And if that matters to you, we'd love to talk.
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