I called on a Tuesday and had keys that Friday. The place was already furnished, so I did not have to figure out a bed and a table on top of everything else.
M.R.
Resident since 2023
About
Owner-operated, on purpose
Gardenia Properties owns every unit it rents. That single fact shapes how repairs get handled, how leases read, and who answers the phone when something goes wrong.
“I own every building we rent. If I wouldn't put my own family in one of these units, nobody else is going in it either.”
George Rodrique
Founder & Principal, Gardenia Properties LLC
George founded Gardenia Properties to bring a gardener's mindset to rental housing: buy good soil, plant carefully, and tend what you grow. Today the company owns and operates 24+ units across 11 properties in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Carolina and Florida— including furnished transitional housing for people coming out of treatment programs.
The Gardenia Standard
We don't manage units. We tend homes.
Most rental operators optimize for scale. We own what we manage, so we optimize for the feeling you get walking up to a well-kept front door.
Grown, not flipped
We hold our properties for the long term and reinvest in them every season — landscaping, upgrades, and honest maintenance.
48-hour repairs
Maintenance requests are answered same-day and most repairs are completed within two business days. No ticket black holes.
A landlord you can call
You rent directly from the people who own the building. George answers his own phone — residents have his number.
Transparent leasing
Plain-English agreements, no junk fees, and security deposits handled exactly by the statute in each state we operate in.
Our Footprint
Where we are
24+ units across 11 properties in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Carolina and Florida— all owned and operated in-house.
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What residents and partners say
George picked up his own phone at 8pm when the heat went out. Somebody was there the next morning. That is not how my last building worked.
D.T.
Resident since 2022
I place clients coming out of treatment and the month-to-month terms matter. Nobody is locked into a year before they are ready for it.
A.L.
Case manager, partner agency
Residents are identified by initials only. We do not publish names, unit numbers, photos, or program affiliations of anyone who lives in one of our properties.
Photography
Behind the lens
The other thing George does with his attention. Cuba, moving water, and whatever happens to be blooming.
Before he owned buildings, George shot television news in Boston — the kind of job where you get one pass at a scene and the light does whatever it wants. He never really put the camera down.
These days it’s slower work: long exposures on rivers and spillways, a week in Cuba photographing people who were kind enough to let him, and a macro lens pointed at whatever is open on the kitchen table. The same instinct that makes him walk a property himself makes him wait an hour for a cloud to move.
Cuba
Water
Still Life
Prints, licensing, or a question about the work — ask George directly.
Questions about how we operate?
Ask directly. George handles owner-level questions himself, including the ones about terms and deposits.