John
Grey
Broker / Business Development
john@houstonrpm.com
Broker #0581032
For the past 40 years, John Grey has helped individuals, trusts and financial institutions purchase, manage, and often times create new investment assets. In the early years as a broker with Merrill Lynch, he researched and executed securities transactions for his client’s portfolios.
As Vice President and Portfolio Manager for two large regional banks, John was responsible for, and directly managed over $4 billion of client assets, held in trust, pension, profit sharing, bank common funds and proprietary mutual funds. In his position, as Vice President, Group Products for AIG/SunAmerica, John’s group created and marketed a number of innovative investment products and derivatives, for some of the nation’s largest mutual funds, trust departments and brokerage firms. Sales exceeded $10 billion annually. Since 2005, John has been active in the Texas real estate market, liquidating REO properties for some of these same financial institutions, as well as acquiring and managing investment real estate for both individuals and institutional buyers.
John is a licensed Texas Real Estate Broker, Certified Residential Specialist, a Graduate of the Realtor Institute, and a member of the Institute of Real Estate Management. After, 40 years, John is still helping individuals, trusts and financial institutions purchase and manage their investment assets.
Kathy Grey
Operations Director
kathy@houstonrpm.com
Kathy Grey serves as Operations Director and Realtor for Real Property Management Houston and Xterra Group LLC. Kathy has a 30 year plus history in many aspects of Real Estate, and Real Estate Finance, as well as sales and operations management and Houston Property Management.
Having been a Realtor working primarily for investors and institutions, as well as Investment owner, Kathy has seen all sides of the investment real estate process, and is adept at locating and analyzing real estate as an investment opportunity, as well as negotiating, and problem solving during the transaction to ensure a smooth and timely close.
On the Operations side, Kathy works directly with the RPMH Owners and new prospective owners. Her philosophy is respect and service toward all clients, customers and potential customers. In this position, problem solving and turn around time are critical, and Kathy has a high level of priority to both speed and accuracy.
Kathy is a member of HAR (Houston Association of Realtors) and TRLS (Texas Residential Leasing Specialists)
Joe Nichols Jr.
Accounting Manager
joe@houstonrpm.com
Joe Nichols Jr. currently serves as Director of Accounting and Finance for Real Property Management Houston, and is a Managing Director of Xterra Group LLC which is the parent company of Real Property Management Houston and Xterra Real Estate.
Joe’s experience includes serving as president of Dabar LP for over 15 years with a focus on Management and Finance.
Joe has a B.B.A. in Marketing and Finance from the University of Texas, and served as the Board of Directors for Dabar LP which was the parent company of Unishippers of Houston specializing in the reselling of transportation services.
Teresa Jennings
Leasing Agent
Teresa@HoustonRPM.com
Vicky Upmann
Operations Manager
Vicky@HoustonRPM.com
Vicky came to Real Property Management Houston after working for another property management company for 5 years. In her previous position she was responsible for all aspects of the business. Vicky is excited to be the Operations Manager for RPMH. Before Vicky joined the RPMH family, she also flipped houses and worked in the Banking industry for 8 years.
Originally from California, Vicky and her son came to Houston in 2007 to visit her sister and they never left! Her son recently graduated from high school and moved to sunny San Diego where she loves to visit him, and spend time at the tide pools and hiking along the beach.
As a empty nester, she is never bored. She loves to travel, ride her bike and root for the Houston Astros!
Kim Goldston Fleshner
Social Media/Marketing Manager
Kim@HoustonRPM.com
Kim came to Real Property Management Houston from Dallas, TX with many years experience in web design, marketing, social media and e-commerce website design as well as extensive skills in online reputation management.
Kim worked as a Project Manager for Kari and Company for 10 + years and has detailed knowledge of social media, marketing and web design. She has been a part of the RPM Houston for 8 years
Kim has three grown children and 1 grandson Mason who she absolutely adores. In her spare time, she loves to fish, spend time in Dallas with her family and enjoy watching football with her Husband – GO COWBOYS!
Melissa Thomas
Accounting Manager
Melissa@HoustonRPM.com
Melissa comes to us from the Oil and Gas Industry after 7 years. She has an extensive accounting background and is the person that the owners and tenants talk to when they have a accounting question!
Melissa was born and raised in the Houston area and has a wonderful husband and 2 children. She is a huge Houston Texans fan and loves the outdoors. Her favorite thing to do away from work is spend time with her family and garden!
Mimi Alfaro
Operations Assistant
Mimi@HoustonRPM.com
Mimi is a Native Salvadoran, who applies her bilingual skills on a regular basis. Mimi is our Operations Assistant for RPM Houston. She is responsible for on boarding new Owners as well as turning on utilities for our empty properties and so much more!
Mimi moved to Texas 10 years ago and has 9+ years of customer service experience. Mimi graduated from Cypress Creek High School and attended University of St. Thomas for an International Business major. Mimi is a positive/happy member of our team and enjoys making meaningful connections with everyone she interacts with.
In Mimi’s spare time she enjoys cooking, working out and singing and dancing.
D’Marie Tilley
On-Boarding Specialist
D’Marie@HoustonRPM.com
D’Marie came to RPM Houston from Unishippers, where she was a customer service representative for 22 years. There is no wonder that she was with them so long – she is friendly, organized, and outgoing!
She has been welcomed to the RPM Houston team as our Tenant On-Boarding Specialist and has been with us for 4 years. She receives the tenant applications and processes them and handles their move in procedures.
D’Marie is a native Houstonian and enjoys time with her husband, son but mostly her granddaughter (she calls Baby Girl). She loves country music and watching her granddaughter at Cheerleading competitions.
Tenant Maintenance Coordinator