Melchor Corp

Number 635 Emerson Street, in downtown Palo Alto a short walk from University Avenue, is the address on file for Melchor Corp, with Gregory Melchor listed as owner. This listing was compiled from public business records and is awaiting the owner's confirmation, so read the details below as a starting point rather than a description the company has approved.

What a firm filed under real estate usually does

The chamber's records place Melchor Corp under real estate agents and managers. Other business directories describe it instead as a holding and investment office, which would fit a company that owns and manages its own property rather than one that lists homes for sale. A business of this kind in Palo Alto usually handles some mix of leasing office or retail space, placing and managing residential tenants, arranging maintenance and collecting rent for buildings it owns or oversees, and advising on the purchase or sale of investment property.

Whether Melchor Corp does any of that for outside clients is not known. If you want an agent to sell a house or find a tenant, ask directly whether the firm takes on that work.

Checking out a real estate or property firm

Ask for the name of the responsible broker and look the record up on the California Department of Real Estate website; anyone brokering sales or managing property for others needs to appear there. For a lease, get the full agreement in writing and read the clauses on maintenance, rent increases and the security deposit. For property management, ask how rent is collected and passed on, what the monthly fee covers and how repairs are approved. An owner who wants a valuation should expect to see the comparable sales behind it, not a single figure with no workings.

Downtown Palo Alto and nearby

Emerson Street runs through the middle of downtown, close to the University Avenue Caltrain station and the edge of the Stanford campus. A property firm based here would typically work across Palo Alto, Stanford, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale, Cupertino and Santa Clara, the northwest corner of Santa Clara County.

The phone on record is 650-323-0791. If you are Gregory Melchor or work with the company, you can claim this listing through the chamber and correct anything here.