Original editorial illustration representing the historic Singer Mansion. LA’s Premier Property Maintenance handled a property-preservation assignment at 820 North Verano Drive in 2013. Property specifications and sale information are based on publicly reported real estate records.
Trusted to Service One of Southern California’s Most Distinctive Estates
Back in 2013, LA’s Premier Property Maintenance was hired to service the historic Singer Mansion at 820 North Verano Drive in Glendora, California.
The property was outside our normal Los Angeles service area, but that did not matter to the client. When a property was large, unusual, or required special attention, I was often the person they called.
They trusted me to travel to the property, evaluate what needed to be done, coordinate the work, document everything, and make sure the assignment was completed properly. That trust was built through years of answering the phone, responding quickly, solving problems, and always doing my best to serve the client.
For me, it was never only about how much money I made on a job. It was about taking care of my clients and their properties—and in return, my clients always took care of me.
A Property With an Extraordinary History
The estate at 820 North Verano Drive is commonly known as the Singer Mansion. The historic residence was built in 1903 and sits on approximately 1.55 acres in Glendora.
With approximately 9,368 square feet, 13 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, extensive grounds, and multiple structures, this was not an ordinary property-preservation assignment.
Properties of this size require more than someone who can perform basic maintenance. They require careful coordination, reliable contractors, accurate reporting, detailed photographs, and someone who understands that the client may be managing the property from hundreds or even thousands of miles away.
That was the responsibility entrusted to us.
Why Clients Sent Us Outside Our Normal Service Area
Glendora was not part of my regular service territory at the time. Nevertheless, the client preferred to send me rather than hire an unfamiliar local contractor.
That has happened repeatedly throughout my career. When clients have a complicated property, an unusual assignment, or a situation requiring discretion and dependable follow-through, they call someone they already know and trust.
For me, that trust is more valuable than any advertisement.
I built LA’s Premier Property Maintenance by answering the phone, responding to assignments, completing the work, and becoming someone my clients could depend on. Once an assignment was sent to me, the client knew that they did not have to worry about whether it would be handled.
Over the years, that approach has taken us to properties throughout Southern California—not because we were trying to cover every city, but because existing clients specifically asked us to take care of their properties.
Documenting the 2013 Property Assignment
The following redacted emails from 2013 document the assignment and some of the ongoing maintenance coordination required at 820 North Verano Drive.
The property involved extensive landscaping, irrigation systems, fountains, pools, water features, ponds, pumps, and multiple vendors. Names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and other private information have been permanently removed.
These communications demonstrate what property preservation looks like behind the scenes. The client did not want to coordinate landscapers, pool-service companies, irrigation repairs, cleanup crews, and other contractors individually. They relied on one point of contact to identify the problems, communicate with the vendors, follow up on the work, and report back.
That was my responsibility.
Turning the Property Around
When we first arrived, the property needed immediate attention. The gardens had not been properly watered, and the grass, roses, and other landscaping were beginning to turn yellow and die. The sprinkler systems were not operating correctly, the pool and ponds required service, debris needed to be removed, and the estate needed a thorough cleanup.
Once we took over the assignment, we turned the property around. We secured the estate, completed the trash-out, removed the debris, restored the landscaping, and got the sprinkler systems operating again. We drained, serviced, and refilled the swimming pool; got the ponds and water features working; provided cleaning and maid service; and coordinated the work needed throughout the property.
In the end, everything turned out beautifully. The landscaping recovered, the grass and roses came back, the gardens looked great, and the pool, ponds, sprinklers, and other property systems were functioning again.
That is what our clients hired us to do: take responsibility for the property, solve the problems, and bring it back to the condition it deserved.
Working With Some of Southern California’s Most Successful Real Estate Professionals
The Singer Mansion was later represented for sale by Sally Forster Jones and her team. Publicly reported sales information shows that the estate sold for $3,375,000 on July 6, 2026.
Seeing the property successfully move into its next chapter was especially meaningful because Sally Forster Jones is also a longtime client, and I continue to perform property-maintenance and preservation work for her and her team.
Throughout my career, I have been fortunate to work with many of Southern California’s most successful real estate professionals. Top agents are trusted with exceptional properties, and they need dependable contractors who can answer the phone, respond quickly, solve problems, and complete the work without requiring constant supervision.
They know that once an assignment is sent to me, it will be handled properly—and they can continue concentrating on their client and the sale of the property.
Proud to See the Property Prosper
It is gratifying to look back at our records from 2013 and then see this historic property beautifully maintained, professionally marketed, sold, and moving into another chapter of its history.
Our involvement represented only one period in the life of this remarkable estate, but I am proud that our company was trusted to help care for it when our client needed us.
To me, this assignment represents what LA’s Premier Property Maintenance is about: long-term relationships, unusual properties, difficult assignments, and clients who know that when they call Eddie, the job will be handled.
Trusted Property Services Throughout Southern California
Since 2006, LA’s Premier Property Maintenance has completed more than 20,000 property-preservation and maintenance assignments for banks, asset-management companies, loan-servicing companies, real estate professionals, attorneys, fiduciaries, investors, developers, insurance carriers, and private property owners.
What Property Preservation Really Means
Property preservation means taking responsibility for whatever a property needs—from the foundation all the way to the roof.
When we are hired by a bank, asset-management company, loan servicer, real estate professional, attorney, investor, or property owner, we become their single point of contact. That may mean securing the property, removing debris, cleaning windows, providing maid service, repairing plumbing, restoring sprinkler systems, maintaining ponds and swimming pools, painting, installing carpet, completing repairs, or performing a full rehabilitation.
Every property is different, and our job is to handle whatever the client asks us to do so they do not have to coordinate multiple contractors or worry about whether the work is getting done.
That is property preservation—we do whatever is necessary to protect, maintain, repair, and prepare the property.
Our services include:
- Property securing, rekeying, and lock changes
- Emergency board-ups and re-securing
- Vacant-property inspections and maintenance
- Debris and personal-property removal
- Estate and foreclosure cleanouts
- Maid service and window cleaning
- Landscaping and brush clearance
- Irrigation and sprinkler-system repairs
- Pond and swimming-pool maintenance
- Plumbing and electrical repairs
- Painting, flooring, and carpet installation
- Property rehabilitation and repairs
- Graffiti removal and paint-over
- Code-violation correction
- Fencing, security doors, and metal barricades
- Property preparation for sale
- Detailed photographic documentation
When a property is vacant, distressed, unusually large, or difficult to manage, experience and dependability matter.
See the Singer Mansion Today
The video below offers a look at the Singer Mansion beyond the 2013 maintenance work described in this post. Credit for the video belongs to its YouTube creator.
If you need help protecting, maintaining, repairing, or preparing a Southern California property, contact LA’s Premier Property Maintenance through LACPP.com.