About Us

Robert F. Marvin RPA, FMA, President & Licensed Real Estate Broker at Realty Performance Group

Robert F. Marvin RPA, FMA, President
Licensed Real Estate Broker

President, has more than 28 years of successful leadership and management experience in real estate development, construction, and property management. Before forming RFM Services in 2005 with Nick Harris, Marvin held management positions at the Widewaters Group, Grubb & Ellis Real Estate Services, and Rochester Management. While at Grubb & Ellis, he played a major role in the construction and management of Bausch & Lomb’s state of the art world headquarters in downtown Rochester. Marvin’s background includes extensive experience in the skilled trades, and he is a master electrician and is licensed in backflow prevention. He is currently working towards obtaining his Bachelors Degree in Business Management and has earned the Real Property Administrator and the Facilities Management Administrator designations from BOMI International. Marvin is also a licensed New York state real estate broker.


Nicholas J. Harris, Jr. CPM, PCAM, Vice President & Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker at Realty Performance Group

Nicholas J. Harris, Jr. CPM, PCAM, Vice President
Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

Nicholas has been in the property management business for over 25 years. Prior to forming RFM Services, Harris was a portfolio manager for over six years with the Cabot Group, managing thirteen community associations totaling 1,500 units. In 1998, he joined the Widewaters Group where he was responsible for managing all aspects of a portfolio encompassing 1.7 million square feet of class A office space and prime retail space. Harris has earned the prestigious CPM (Certified Property Manager) designation of the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), as well as the PCAM (Professional Community Association Manager) of the Community Associations Institute (CAI). He currently serves as Regional Vice President of IREM responsible for Chapters in New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting at the Rochester Institute of Technology and is a licensed New York State real estate broker.


Chad T Fetterman CMCA, AMS, Vice President and Secretary at Realty Performance Group

Chad T Fetterman CMCA, AMS, Vice President and Secretary

Chad has more than 20 years of experience in the property management field as a multi-site manager of condominiums and homeowners associations. He has been awarded the CMCA (Certified Manager of Community Associations) designation of the National Board of Certification of Community Association Managers (NBC-CAM). Fetterman was previously employed as a landscape maintenance foreman, where he gained extensive knowledge on plant identification, proper pruning techniques, and identification and treatment of plant insects and diseases, experience which has proven very valuable to Realty Performance Group customers. He has also worked on large renovation projects for residential and commercial properties. He studied Architectural Technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, a branch campus of Penn State University


 Carolyn M. Blanchard, Vice President and Treasurer at Realty Performance Group

Carolyn M. Blanchard, Vice President and Treasurer

Carolyn has been with Realty Performance Group for more than 20 years, and oversees all bookkeeping and office functions and staffing. She has extensive experience in all aspects of the bookkeeping and clerical functions required in community association management and does an excellent job managing our office staff. Prior to joining Realty Performance Group, she was club manager for a large community association in the Rochester area.


 

David P. Hillestad CMCA, AMS, Property Manager at Realty Performance Group

David P. Hillestad CMCA, AMS, Property Manager

David has over 7 years experience as a multi-site manager of Condominium and Homeowners Associations, plus 19 years as Director of Building and Grounds for two upscale Child Development Centers in the Rochester area.  David has earned the CMCA (Certified Manager of Community Associations) and AMS (Association Management Specialist) designations from CAI (Community Associations Institute) an International organization dedicated to building better communities.  In addition to his hands on experience, David has earned a BS degree education, his NYS Insurance Agents License in Property and Casualty, and is certified in playground design and inspection by the National Parks and Recreation Department.


Julie McDonald, Property Manager at Realty Performance Group

Julie McDonald, Property Manager

Julie has over 25 years of experience in Property Management.  She has experience in commercial real estate, student housing, homeowner associations and condominium associations and is also a licensed real estate salesperson.  Julie has experience managing personnel including onsite maintenance technicians, office staff and students as she has her masters degree in education as well.


John Standing, Construction and Maintenance Manager at Realty Performance Group

John Standing, Property Manager

John has over 20 years’ experience in the property management and construction fields.  He has worked in student housing, facilities operations, condominiums and homeowners association.  His extensive experience in the trades  allows him to address issues of a more technical nature which reduce the number of outside vendors needed to perform services for our clients.


David Drake, Property Manager

David has over 29 years of construction and leadership experience as a member of the carpenters union and overseeing his own construction crews. David also has an extensive background in HVAC.  His trades experience permits him to adequately address concerns eliminating the need for more costly contractor expertise. David joined our team in 2021 as an onsite Superintendent who demonstrated his abilities to manage his assigned property and was promoted to Property Manager in 2023.


William Marvin, Construction and Maintenance Manager

William has over 25 years’ experience in the property management and construction fields.  He has worked in senior housing, facilities operations and new home construction for several homeowners associations.  His extensive experience coordinating different trades on construction sites allows him to handle larger capital projects for our clients which eliminates the need for third party project management companies


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  • BOMI International logo
  • 2016 Largest Property Management Firms award

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