Readers’ Choice Awards Spotlight

Published December 2023

     Editor’s Note: FLCAJ would like to congratulate these four outstanding 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards winners! (For a full list of 2023 RCA winners, please read the March 2023 issue or visit www.fcapgroup.com/flcaj/readers-choice/.

Access Management

Diamond Level Winner—Management Companies
(Winner 2023 and two previous RCA wins)

     Access Management is honored to receive the Diamond Readers’ Choice Award from FLCAJ. As a recognized leader in the property management industry, Access Management specializes in full-service community association management and has proudly served premier communities throughout Florida since 2008.

     At Access, “Hospitality is our foundation, your happiness is our focus” is not just our slogan, but our way of life. Our experienced and dedicated team of industry professionals are centered on demonstrating the award-winning “Access Difference” by providing unsurpassed service to our valued communities and boards through effective communication, strong attention to detailed financials and recordkeeping, and a proactive management approach.

     Coupled with the utilization of industry-leading technology, our foundation in the hospitality industry allows us to administer a friendly, customer service-centric approach to association management. We believe it is important to be involved within the community and active in organizations that provide valuable resources in this rapidly changing industry. This involvement provides our team with practical knowledge and insights from leaders in this field, best practices, research, and tools we use every day.

     Access Management serves community associations throughout the state of Florida in Orlando, Ocala, St. Augustine, Daytona, Broward, Tampa, Sarasota, Naples, Ft. Myers, and the Panhandle as well as the Carolinas, with convenient office locations in Celebration, Naples, Tampa, Sarasota, and South Carolina.

     For more information on Access Management, call 407-480-4200, email contactus@accessdifference.com, or visit 
www.accessdifference.com.

ADT Community Association Program

Diamond Level Winner—Safety and Security
(Winner 2023 and nine previous RCA wins)

     ADT Community Association Program is the first choice in security for community associations and is the nation’s premier provider of security system monitoring, service, and smart home technology, providing world-class customer care and service to communities through customized bulk agreements. This includes 24/7 monitoring by our own state-of-the-art monitoring centers and “concierge-level” customer care and service provided by our exclusive community association service center. Our employee technicians are highly trained and vetted security professionals.

     The ADT brand is among the most well-known and trusted brands in the security industry today. With 148 years of experience, ADT is a leading provider of security, automation, and smart home solutions serving consumer and business customers through 200 locations, nine monitoring centers, and the largest network of security professionals in the United States.

     For more information on ADT, visit www.adt.com/community-associations.

Asphalt Restoration Technology Systems

Diamond Level Winner—Asphalt and Paving Services
(Winner 2023 and nine previous RCA wins)

     When I (Connie Lorenz) received the email this year telling me that we had won the Readers’ Choice Award again, I was thrilled! When I received the news, as chance would have it, I was in the middle of cleaning up my office and getting it ready for the new year, dusting off and stacking my previous years’ plaques; and much to my surprise, I counted nine of them! Realizing this was the tenth year that the RCA have been around and that we have been winners ALL 10 years makes us quite proud to be the recipients but even prouder to know that we have such an amazing support system like FLCAJ and its readers!

     For those of you who don’t know, I am also an asphalt consultant who oversees milling and paving projects across the state. I spent 42 weeks in hotels in 2022 alone! Not only do I oversee new milling and paving projects, but also I am asked to come in and inspect bad paving projects, or at least those that clients think are bad.

     I was returning from one of these “bad paving projects” in St. Petersburg when I received a phone call from one of my clients for whom we had just completed some asphalt repairs, sealing, and striping. She wanted to reach out to me personally to share that in her role as a project manager who has overseen many, many crews, from landscaping to underground utilities and from roofing to roadways, she had never met a more professional team than mine, starting from her initial phone call to us to her final invoice; and even better, she LOVED my logo!

     There are so many times we will reach out to complain to a company about how angry or upset we were with their team, their product, or their performance, but how many of us reach out to say, “Excellent job!” or, “You hit our project out of the park!”? This is why I am so grateful to FLCAJ for offering the opportunity for vendors and contractors to have a place where we can receive recognition from you, their readers! Receiving this award is one of our greatest accomplishments, and “thank you” for believing in us 10 years strong! We think you’re spectacular, too! 

     For more information on Asphalt Restoration Technology Systems, call 800-254-4PDC (4732) or 866-REJUVN8 (735-8868) or visit asphaltnews.com.

Blue Stream Fiber

Diamond Level Winner—Technology and Communications
(Winner 2023)

     We at Blue Stream Fiber are beyond proud to be recognized as a Diamond Level Readers’ Choice Award winner. This was our first year to be nominated, and seeing the support from the readers whom we interact with daily is humbling. We pride ourselves in putting our customers at the center of everything that we do, and we look forward to another year of supporting all our communities throughout Florida. 

     Blue Stream Fiber is a Florida-based, fiber-optic provider with over 40 years of experience, offering customized fiber internet on a 10 gig-capable network, Total Home Managed WiFi, world-class TV powered by TiVo, and phone service to HOAs, condominiums, and neighborhoods throughout the state. Our focus on reliability, customer service, great products, smooth installation, and creation of a tailored plan to serve each community makes us a true partner to the associations we serve.

     From our beginnings in Coral Springs, Florida, Blue Stream Fiber has grown to serve over 100,000 homes throughout Florida and has been recognized for our efforts by multiple organizations, including our 2023 BIG Innovation Award presented by the Business Intelligence Group, inclusion as one of the 10 Most Innovative Telecom Solution Providing Companies to Watch by CIO Insight, #1 Fastest Cable Providers by BroadbandNOW, and a Top Workplace by the Sun Sentinel. These accolades are a testament to the work our team puts in each day to ensure we can provide our communities and customers with the services they deserve.

     To learn more about Blue Stream Fiber, our fiber infrastructure, and whether your community qualifies to have fiber built at our cost, please reach out to 888-960-2855 or visit bluestreamfiber.com/bulk.