From Friendship to Full-Service Property Care: How Two Chicagoland Entrepreneurs Built Priority Property Solutions

A Problem Bigger Than a Single Repair

For many homeowners, landlords and property managers, maintaining a property rarely involves just one contractor.

A plumbing issue might require one company. A damaged door or wall could mean calling another. Cleaning, landscaping, snow removal, turnover work and general repairs may each require separate vendors, separate estimates and separate schedules.

Dubil and Aguirre saw an opportunity in that fragmentation.

Rather than building a company around a single trade, they began developing Priority Property Solutions around a broader idea: give customers one company they can call for multiple property needs.

The goal was not necessarily to eliminate specialists. It was to eliminate the burden placed on the property owner to coordinate every problem independently.

That philosophy eventually became reflected in the company’s tagline:

“One Priority. Your Property.”

Different Experience, Complementary Roles

Dubil’s previous experience as a business owner gave him familiarity with the challenges that come with building and operating a company: developing systems, managing growth, coordinating people and finding ways to make an organization function more efficiently.

Aguirre’s experience came from a different direction.

With a background in plumbing and general repair work, he brought practical knowledge of how properties function and how quickly what appears to be a small maintenance issue can turn into a larger problem.

The combination gave the two owners different perspectives on the same question.

How do you make property maintenance easier for the customer?

For Dubil, part of the answer involved building the infrastructure behind the service.

For Aguirre, it meant understanding what was happening at the property and figuring out how to solve it.

Those two approaches became central to the company’s development.

Building Around the Property Instead of the Trade

Traditional contracting businesses are often organized around a specific specialty.

Priority Property Solutions is being built differently.

The company has developed services across several areas of property care, including general maintenance and handyman work, cleaning, apartment turnovers and make-ready work, landscaping, snow and ice management, pest control, carpet cleaning, window cleaning and other property-related services.

The common denominator is not a particular trade.

It is the property itself.

That distinction matters because the problems faced by property owners do not typically arrive according to industry categories.

A landlord preparing an apartment for a new tenant may need repairs, cleaning and flooring work within the same week.

A commercial property manager may be dealing with routine maintenance while simultaneously planning landscaping, janitorial service and winter snow operations.

A homeowner may have several smaller repairs that individually would require multiple service calls.

Priority Property Solutions was created around the idea that the customer should not have to become the project manager for every one of those situations.

From Individual Jobs to an Operating System

As the company has grown, Dubil and Aguirre have also focused on the systems behind the work.

Scheduling, dispatch, work orders, estimating, documentation and communication have become part of the larger effort to coordinate multiple types of property service under one organization.

That operational side is important to the company’s model.

Offering multiple services is relatively easy to advertise. Coordinating them reliably is considerably more difficult.

It requires knowing who is going where, what work has been authorized, what materials are needed, what has already been completed and what still needs attention.

For the owners, developing those systems is part of the same problem-solving mentality that started the company.

The objective is to make the complexity of maintaining a property less visible to the customer.

A Business Built From a Shared Mindset

The story of Priority Property Solutions is ultimately less about one specific service than it is about the partnership behind it.

Dubil had experience building businesses.

Aguirre knew how to work through physical problems and repairs.

Both had an interest in helping people and finding solutions.

After meeting through a mutual friend, those backgrounds and interests gradually came together around a business concept that addressed a problem they believed property owners dealt with far too often.

Too many contractors.

Too many phone calls.

Too much coordination.

Priority Property Solutions was built as their answer to that problem.

The company is still developing, expanding its systems and growing its service capabilities, but its original idea has remained largely unchanged: make taking care of a property simpler by giving customers one organization capable of coordinating more of what that property needs.

For Dubil and Aguirre, the business grew from friendship, experience and a shared inclination to fix problems.

Now, they are attempting to turn that approach into something larger—a property-services company built not around one trade, but around the customer and the property itself.