Jay Kacirk
District Manager/Training

Jay Kacirk, CERTIFIED PROPERTY MANAGER® (key no. 10303), is a Senior Vice President of Eugene Burger Management Corporation in Carlsbad. 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 Carlsbad office consists of 35 community associations and approximately 30 rental properties.

Jay is an active participant at the local and national level in the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), where he served as 1992 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 200 residential managers. Jay has also taught property management for the UCSD Extension in La Jolla. He recently completed a two-year term serving the Institute as Regional Vice President of Region 11 (California and Hawaii). 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.

"In recent years Jay has participated as an instructor for a training program called REstart designed to train disadvantaged single parents as apartment managers."

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 will serve a three-year term as Housing Commissioner.

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