Property managers have a primary responsibility which involves the maintenance of the property they oversee. It is important to understand what your firm expects as far as when maintenance should happen and on what kind of regular basis.
Too many property managers get fired due to maintenance issues, so it is very important to consider the following tips to make sure that you can ensure your job security as a property manager.
To avoid this, the first thing you need to do is go over what the firm has decided is the appropriate time to service something. This list will usually be in the form of a log book, but if it is not, make sure you create a log book.
With this log book, you can make a check list so to speak that you can mark off and sign when something is serviced or maintained. This record is a great failsafe to have when the firm wants to know when something was serviced last. Also, when something bad happens, the firm will want to know if you had it serviced or not. If not, they will blame you for the damage, but if there is a log of when it was done, they will usually take full responsibility of the issue.
When something bad happens, it can go very bad for you also as the property manager unless you have a good log book to back you up. Most issues end up in firing if the manager can’t prove when maintenance took place, and some managers even get put on probation with a large pay cut. No matter what happens, you can’t afford to get fired, so it’s important to keep a good log book of maintenance records.
We hope that these tips have been helpful as you go out and do your best as a property manager. In a world of uncertainty, you can take control of the property maintenance by keeping better records and doing a better job of keeping the firm accountable for the issues that end up happening with properties.
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