Jordan Hale
Principal & Managing Broker
Licensed Georgia broker with a background in real estate transactions and landlord-tenant matters. Jordan reviews every lease document and sets the screening standard the firm applies.
04 / About
A brokerage that treats
management as evidence work
JHA Property Management grew out of a real estate and landlord-tenant practice. That origin still shapes how we document, price, and defend every decision on an owner's behalf.
Covington, Georgia. Serving Newton County and the surrounding metro Atlanta submarkets.
Mission
To make rental ownership legible — so an owner always knows what their property is worth, what it costs to run, and why each recommendation was made.
Vision
Property management in Georgia is still largely opinion-driven: rents set by feel, maintenance approved without documentation, statements that raise more questions than they answer. We think the standard should be evidentiary — every number traceable to a comparable, a receipt, or a ledger line. That is the practice we are building, one door at a time.
A / Values
Four commitments we can be held to
01
Evidence before opinion
Every pricing, renewal, and capital recommendation arrives with the comparable set or the ledger line that produced it.
02
One standard, every file
Screening criteria, notice timing, and deposit accounting are uniform. Consistency is both fairer and safer.
03
Answer the phone
Owners and residents reach a person, not a queue. Same-business-day response is a policy, not an aspiration.
04
Protect the asset first
A property that is maintained leases faster, holds better residents, and appraises higher. Short-term savings that cost long-term value are declined.
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Doors under management
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Median time to lease
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On-time rent collection
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Maintenance intake
B / Timeline
How the practice grew
2014
Practice roots
The founding partner begins handling landlord-tenant and transactional real estate matters for metro Atlanta owners.
2018
First managed doors
Management is added at client request, starting with eleven single-family doors across Newton and Gwinnett counties.
2021
Systems build-out
Portal-based accounting, trust reconciliation, and a written screening standard replace ad-hoc process.
2023
Maintenance bench
A licensed and insured vendor bench with a published rate card and 24-hour intake goes live.
2025
Caulker House
Caulker Homes LLC completes the new upper residence in Covington, brought to market under JHA management.
2026
Analysis for every owner
The annual rental market analysis becomes standard for every managed property and free for prospective owners.
C / Leadership
Who does the work
Amara Whitfield
Director of Leasing
Runs the comparable studies, pricing, and placement calendar. Amara has leased across metro Atlanta submarkets for eleven years and knows which portals actually convert.
Devon Ruiz
Maintenance Operations Lead
Manages the vendor bench, triage standards, and the after-hours line. Devon spent a decade in trades before moving to the coordination side.
Priya Raman
Controller
Owns trust accounting, monthly reconciliation, and the year-end packet. Priya's statements are the reason owners stop asking where the money went.
D / Why choose us
What owners tell us matters
Legal literacy
Lease documents, notices, and deposit handling are reviewed by a licensed broker with a transactional real estate background.
Written standards
Screening, turnaround, and inspection criteria exist on paper and are applied the same way to every file.
Accounting you can audit
Monthly statements reconcile to the trust ledger, with receipts attached to every work order.
Local comparables
Pricing comes from the submarket you actually own in, not a statewide average.
Named contacts
You know who handles leasing, who handles maintenance, and who prepares your statement.
No surprise fees
The fee schedule is published and does not change between the proposal and the agreement.
Affiliations
- Newton County Board of Realtors
- Georgia Association of Realtors
- National Association of Residential Property Managers
- Equal Housing Opportunity
- Covington Main Street Association
Next step
Talk to the people who will actually manage it
No call centre, no regional handoff. The team listed above is the team on your file.