Welcome!

    Welcome to the inaugural post of the new blog of Shiver Management Group, a real estate company with long and deep roots in Northern Virginia.

This blog is our effort to improve communications with our tenants, vendors and homeowner communities. Along the way, we’ll offer some thoughts and advice we hope you’ll find useful on real estate management, investing and home building.

A little more background on Shiver Management and me: We are the parent entity of several real estate partnerships and limited liability companies founded by the late Jube B. Shiver Sr., a pioneering home builder who helped reshape Northern Virginia and broke through racial and economic barriers in housing. As someone who began his career as a public-school teacher, Mr. Shiver never lost sight of the idea that serving his community was among the highest of callings.

Our affiliated partnerships and companies include: Spring Garden Apartments, a complex of 19 residential buildings in the rapidly redeveloping Hybla Valley in Fairfax County; 211 West Street, near historic old Town Alexandria; and Poupanca Funding, LLC., a three-year-old company whose aim is to acquire, own, manage, develop and invest in other businesses as well as real property.

I joined Shiver Management last year. Among my other duties, I’ll be your lead blogger.

In future posts, I plan to cover a number of important topics, including homelessness, government housing programs, the future development of Hybla Valley’s Route 1 corridor, home-energy efficiency, financial strategies and Shiver Management Group’s recent meeting with Julián Castro, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This blog is meant as a forum for you too. We would appreciate feedback from you, our readers. Please feel free to use the comments section (please respect others and stay civil) or call me at 703-780-6700 for additional information or with questions. I promise to respond.

Thanks for reading and, again, WELCOME!