CPM®EMERITUS
Senior Vice President
District Manager - Irvine

California Real Estate Broker, License #00614146

Jay Kacirk, CPM ® EMERITUS (key no. 10303), is a Senior Vice President of Eugene Burger Management Corporation, AMO® in Irvine.  Prior to this position, he was the co-owner of Coastside Property Management, Inc., having acquired the firm in 1988.  At present, the portfolio of the Irvine office consists of 15 affordable and 4 market rate apartment communities, as well as an affordable cooperative community.

Jay is an active participant at the local and national level in the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), where he served as 1992 San Diego Chapter President.  He was selected by the chapter as recipient of the "CERTIFIED PROPERTY MANAGER® of the Year" award for 1989.  He is past chairman of the Ethics Committee for the local chapter, and is certified to instruct several national courses and seminars.  These include "Successful Site Management", which has involved the training of over 400 residential managers. 

Jay has also taught property management for the UCSD Extension in La Jolla and for the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). He served a two-year term as Regional Vice President of Region 11 (California and Hawaii) in 1998-1999.  In this capacity he oversaw the activities of the 10 IREM chapters located in these 2 states. In 2000, Jay was awarded the Professional Achievement Award from IREM National.  

As a past member of the Board of Directors of Resident Relations of California, a landlord-tenant mediation firm, Jay has been involved in a variety of programs to provide education and improve landlord-tenant relations in San Diego.  In 1999, he was appointed by the Mayor of Poway to the Poway Housing Commission, where he served for 7 years as Housing Commissioner and Vice Chairman. 

Jay is a former Director on the Board of a non-profit foundation. He served as the president of the Bobby Jo Lewis Foundation, headquarted in San Diego and is a former Board member of the IREM Foundation, headquarted in Chicago, Illinois.

Jay holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in Computer Information Systems from National University. He resides in Carlsbad, California.

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