Estate management is the work AJ Deerey wants next, and it is the work he has the longest record in. For eighteen years he ran his own estate and property business alongside the construction career: 12 to 18 estates and better than fifty homes at a time, inspected, maintained and kept right whether the owners were in residence or not.
His current role is the closest thing to a live reference. He carries four large scale luxury residences from roughly 98% construction completion, through final Certificate of Occupancy, and indefinitely into post-occupancy care.
One property, or a small portfolio, and everything that keeps it running: the buildings, the grounds, the systems, the staff and vendors, the budget, and the problems nobody put on the schedule.
Decades of construction means I don't just coordinate the trades. I've been the trades. That's what separates me from a career facilities administrator.
When something fails at two in the morning, the difference between an estate manager who has built and one who has only administered is the difference between a diagnosis and a phone call.
Naples, Florida is home. He is open to relocation, including outside the continental United States.
An estate manager runs a private property as an operation: the buildings, the grounds, the building systems, the staff and vendors, the budget, and whatever breaks unexpectedly. On the properties AJ Deerey has managed that has meant inspections, preventive maintenance, contractor coordination, capital planning and keeping homes ready whether or not the owners were in residence.
Eighteen years running his own estate and property company, Slab-2-Shingles Home Services, from 1998 until he sold it in 2016, plus his current role since 2022 caring for four luxury residences and a 122-property portfolio.
That was a core part of Slab-2-Shingles Home Services. He managed 12 to 18 estates and over 50 residential properties, inspected and maintained whether the owners were in residence or not.