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L to R: Lanny Lewis, Valerie Lewis, Luke Lewis
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TOP PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FIRM IS ALSO A TRUSTED PART OF REGIONAL COMMUNITY A TRUSTED NAME in real estate in Baton Rouge since 1990, Lewis Companies is a family-owned business with a focus on “home.” As a full-service real estate, property management and development firm, Lewis Companies can handle everything from small condominiums to large subdivisions, rental or purchase. “When someone comes through our doors, we say ‘welcome home,’” explains Valerie Lewis, founder of Lewis Companies. “We try to make everyone feel at home. That’s how we’ve built our reputation as one of the oldest property management firms in the city.” Investors themselves, Lewis and her husband, Lanny, understand what it takes to maintain a property. Their expertise in leasing, budgeting and association management is invaluable. “We’re running a small business, so we are accountants, maintenance people and real estate experts,” Lewis explains. “We’re able to tie it all together.” Lewis Companies is one of only a few management firms to provide maintenance services and employs certified air conditioning and heat technicians, carpenters, painters, gardeners and more. With a full staff of 30—including some employees who
have been with the company for more than 20 years—Lewis says the business has grown through hard work and dedication. She and her husband went from one of the largest farming operations in the state to real estate investment and then land development in the Bluebonnet/ Highland area, where their office is now located, branching out into management and contracting from there. Lewis’ son, Luke, is a contractor with
LWL builders, an addition to the family business founded in 2012, and owns LWL Maintenance. While the Lewises certainly have a passion for real estate, Luke is also a certified jet pilot and Lanny’s love of fast cars plays out at State Capitol Raceway. Lewis Companies is a member of the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors, the Better Business Bureau (with an A-plus rating), Louisiana Real
Estate Commission, Baton Rouge Growth Coalition and the Business Partnership for Children. The company has been listed the No. 1 property management company in the region by the Baton Rouge Business Report for several years running. “We’ve met people from all walks of life and gotten to know the needs of the community,” says Lewis. “We’ve also watched Baton Rouge grow and strive to be an active part of that community.” Lewis Companies put its words into action after Hurricane Katrina and last year’s flooding by going above and beyond to help displaced people find a place to call home. “The impact of helping those people trying to get settled has stayed with me,” Lewis says. “We worked hard to be able to open a door and give people a place to live.” Lewis admits that property management isn’t necessarily an easy business. There are bills to collect, air conditioners to fix, rules and regulations of homeowners associations to enforce, and investors to answer to at the end of the day. “We often have people send notes and say thank you for being there,” she says. “To be able to get those thank you’s means something to us.”
AT A GLANCE
PRIMARY PRODUCT/SERVICE: Property management and real estate development • TOP EXECUTIVE: Valerie Lewis • NO. OF EMPLOYEES: 30 YEAR FOUNDED: 1990 • PHONE: 225.766.8802 • WEBSITE: lewis-companies.com • EMAIL: info@lewis-companies.com
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