Eric Andresen:  

Life After graduating from San Francisco State with a BA in Theatre Production Mgmt, I started working for my dad's property management company, West Coast Property Management. I continued doing theatre for several more years with local groups and companies, but the rehearsal and show load eventually got to me. I am hoping that I can get back to theatre work again in the future. I bought the company from my dad in 1993 and the business has grown dramatically since then. We're now also a maintenance/general contracting company and I'm developing a real estate sales company. Our offices continue to be in San Francisco, although we've moved a few times in order to allow for expansion. I married Karen in 1993 and we started our lives in a house in Millbrae. When Karen became pregnant a year later we got closer to her family by moving to Orinda. We now own what was, in 1996, a brand new home in Moraga and although the commute to San Francisco every day is a hassle, I wouldn't give up the "rural" life for anything. We have three children. A son, born in 1994; and two daughters, one born in 1997 and the other in 2001. We spend a lot of our spare time at our second home at Clear Lake, where I always went as a kid. We enjoy traveling a lot, too, with annual trips to Baja, Mexico and Maui, Hawaii. Karen has family in New York and Florida, so we make regular trips across the country and to visit family in Sweden and Norway. We like to snow ski, too, and Karen's parents have a cabin up near Bear Valley. I have served as the president of the San Francisco Apartment Assoc, and as President of the California Apartment Assoc. When I was the president of the Professional Property Mgmt. Assoc. several years ago I was honored to have the challenge of writing what has now become San Francisco's s...Expand for more