About Us
Sedlack
Development is a fourth-generation family business. The company was founded
in the late 1920s in Los Angeles by Czechoslovakian immigrant Netta Sedlack. Netta moved to Hollywood from Chicago in 1919. In Hollywood her husband
tuned pianos for stars of the then-nascent movie industry.
In the late 1930s, Netta and her son John moved south to a sleepy town called San Diego. There they focused on building the real estate investment shop they started in Los Angeles. The timing was fortuitous.
Due
to the Great Depression, prime San Diego acreage was selling for pennies on
the dollar. By living frugally and frequenting tax sale auctions, the mother
(shown right supervising a 1949 construction project at San Diego's Toyne
Street) and son team built up their land holdings.
With the arrival of World War II, demand for defense-industry housing exploded. As John Sedlack (shown left in downtown San Diego in 1939) put it, "We could not build houses fast enough; as fast as the walls went up, the places rented."
Sedlack Development played an important role sheltering the American workers and military families who were boldly confronting the march of facism.
Today Sedlack Development rents, leases, and develops real estate across
San Diego County. From Vista to Imperial Beach, Julian to La Jolla, we provide
residential and commercial properties to San Diego's vibrant people and communities.
We also lease properties in Arizona.