Our Team | Blue Door Living LLC

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"It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." — Steve Jobs

Ryan Weiss

Managing Partner / Principal Broker

As the former president of the New Hampshire Real Estate Investors Association and the Principal Broker of Blue Door Living, Ryan is a property management expert. Ryan has experience managing over $200MM of real estate and leasing over 1,000 apartments on behalf of his clients at Blue Door Living and at previous property management companies. Ryan's experience in property management began when he was just a kid painting and cleaning the apartments his father owned. Ryan lives with his wife and kids in Southern New Hampshire and is a local market expert. As a multifamily investor himself, he intimately understands the impact of high-quality property management on asset performance and outcomes. Under his leadership, Blue Door Living has become one of the largest and highest rated property management companies in New Hampshire. When Ryan isn't working he enjoys spending time with his family, as well as hiking and reading.

Peter Bartash

Co-Founder / Partner

Strategic operator with experience across real estate development, investment, and corporate governance. He has led capital structuring, turnaround execution, and stakeholder negotiations across multi-entity portfolios in complex, high-stakes environments. He holds a patent in product development and also writes and produces music.

Kevin Dube

Property Management Team Lead

With over 10 years of experience in property management, Kevin Dube brings expertise in overseeing business operations, managing owner communications, and negotiating vendor contracts. As the Property Management Team Lead, he ensures smooth financial processes, including rent recording, and handles complex matters such as evictions. Having worked with both large and small companies, Kevin is skilled in delivering efficient property management solutions while maintaining strong relationships with owners and tenants. Outside of work, Kevin is passionate about coaching youth sports, sharing his leadership and teamwork skills with the next generation. He also enjoys gardening and spending time outdoors, participating in a variety of recreational activities that keep him active and connected to nature. His well-rounded approach to both professional and personal life reflects his dedication to community, growth, and excellence.

Robert Matteau III

Assistant Property Manager

With a background spanning multiple trades and industries, Robert brings a well-rounded perspective to the Blue Door Living team. As Assistant Property Manager, his responsibilities include supporting business operations, maintaining owner communications, processing rent payments, and managing evictions in our Seacoast area. He also serves as our Leasing Specialist for Seacoast properties, where he negotiates rent pricing with owners, creates property listings, follows up with prospective tenants, and handles the various details that keep our rental process running smoothly. Robert's journey with Blue Door Living began as a Maintenance Technician, giving him invaluable hands-on experience with property care and tenant needs from the ground up. Before joining Blue Door Living, Robert built a strong foundation in customer service through diverse roles: Assistant Manager at Rage Cage NH, Senior Certified Pharmacy Technician for Amazon Pharmacy, and Customer Service Manager at Walmart. These experiences shaped his approach to serving both property owners and tenants with professionalism and care. When he's not working, Robert treasures time with his family and children, enjoys video gaming, and channels his creativity for a local haunted house attraction—a passion project he's been part of for over 10 years.

Ryan Stultz

Assistant Property Manager

Ryan is an Assistant Property Manager here at Blue Door Living, LLC. He is responsible for supporting the property management team with their day-to-day operations, including rent recording, eviction processing, and ensuring smooth communication with residents. Ryan's proactive approach helps maintain organized workflows and timely responses to tenant needs. Ryan's experience in property management began in college, where he completed an internship with an off-campus housing company. This role introduced him to the fundamentals of tenant relations and property operations, laying the foundation for his current work at Blue Door Living. Outside of work, Ryan is passionate about outdoor activities. Whether he's on the golf course, skiing down a mountain, hiking a trail, or out on the water boating, Ryan enjoys staying active and exploring the outdoors.

Sadie Crawford

Leasing Manager

Sadie heads the leasing department here at Blue Door Living. She is responsible for recommending rents and leasing terms to our clients, creating professional listings, leading apartment showings, screening applicants, and managing tenant move-ins. Sadie has a background of more than 3 years in customer service. Before Blue Door Living, Sadie worked as a customer service representative at LHR Plumbing & Heating. In this role, she coordinated HVAC service technicians to solve homeowners' mechanical issues, requiring proficient organizational skills. She also previously worked for her family's real estate sales office, where she learned what makes a quality listing photo and learned what's important to homebuyers in a listing. She is now able to advise our clients on the work that must be completed to lease their rentals quickly and for top dollar. Sadie has successfully found apartment homes for over 150 groups of residents in her time at Blue Door Living so far.

Jim Plourde

Maintenance Manager

Jim is responsible for overseeing the maintenance department here at Blue Door Living, as well as for project-managing non-unit turn construction projects for our clients. Jim has a long and diverse professional background in maintenance and the trades. Towards the beginning of his career, Jim worked for a fire and water damage restoration company, and later operated his own painting and wallpapering business for a number of years. He then worked for the highway department of several NH towns for 22 years, before serving as a firefighter and later as the fire chief for Greenfield for 12 years. He credits his leadership skills to this service, and his knowledge of fire and building codes has proven valuable for Blue Door, as he has managed the responses to fires at several Blue Door Living properties. More recently, Jim served as the facilities manager for a large summer camp and conference center. In this role, he maintained the heating, cooling, sewer, other mechanical systems, and all other building components for all 36 buildings of the campus, meaning he is highly familiar with the mechanical systems in our clients' properties. Overall, Jim has a wealth of trades and building code knowledge, allowing him to propose optimal solutions for our clients' special construction projects and manage them smoothly.

Andrew Lambert

Maintenance Coordinator

Andrew is responsible for resolving the many maintenance and repair requests that come in from our tenants and our other team members. As part of that, he manages and schedules our several in-house Maintenance Technicians, and provides excellent customer service in scheduling repairs with our tenants. He also maintains relationships with numerous vendors so that work orders can be completed in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Before Blue Door, Andrew was a project manager for a custom home builder for 10 years. As such, he has the trades knowledge and experience to know what the appropriate solution is for many kinds of maintenance problems, and knows how to do the work for those solutions correctly. Plus, Andrew has a network of trustworthy contractors that he has been introducing to the Blue Door rolodex.

Justin Burke

Maintenance Project Manager

Justin is responsible for managing unit turnover projects from beginning to end, from light repairs to heavy remodels, for our clients. This includes conducting move-out inspections, devising scopes of work and cost estimates, collecting contractor quotes, and performing final inspections to make sure work has been completed to a high standard. Before this current role, Justin was an all-star maintenance technician here at Blue Door Living. Before Blue Door, Justin worked as a maintenance technician for another property management company and as a carpenter for a remodeling company, each for a few years. This experience has prepared him well to devise scopes of work and effectively manage our clients' unit turns.

Jacob Rich

Prospective Client Specialist & Business Development Manager

If you are interested in hiring Blue Door Living to manage your property, Jacob is your go-to contact. He is responsible for discovering prospective clients' needs and educating them on our services so that he and the prospective client can decide whether there is a good fit. Jacob is also responsible for heading business improvement projects at the company, with the mission of continually adding to the value that we deliver to our clients and residents. Before Blue Door Living, Jacob worked in various roles at three other property management companies and a remodeling company. He is detail-, systems-, and process-oriented. His experience and traits allow him to devise effective improvements to Blue Door's operations and to ensure new clients receive the exact help they need.

Maintenance Technicians & Remote Team Members

In addition to our team members above, our team is also composed of eight Maintenance Technicians and ten full-time remote team members. Our Maintenance Technicians complete a variety of repairs on a daily basis to keep our residents' homes and clients' properties in great condition. They come from various construction and maintenance backgrounds. Our remote team members serve in roles across various departments and perform work including leasing tasks, client and resident customer service, maintenance coordination, and accounting.