General Maintenance
Property maintenance plays an essential role in nearly every aspect of property management. First and foremost, property maintenance plays a huge part in resident satisfaction. When residents submit a maintenance request, they assume it will be handled quickly. If it is difficult to submit a request, they don’t hear back, or the scheduling process is a hassle, residents will soon grow dissatisfied, increasing resident turnover.
Property maintenance is the general upkeep of a property such as repairs, improvements, and preservation of a residential unit. Developing a streamlined maintenance process is essential to a property management company’s success and, if done right, can also be a profit center. You can expect maintenance to be a requirement at every property your company manages. Property maintenance responsibilities can include:
- Regular inspections and routine maintenance to ensure that all electrical and plumbing are operational.
- Upkeep, landscaping and snow removal
- Building repairs
- Safety checks to ensure the single-family home or residential unit is habitable.
- Rodent and pest control
- Completing turnover maintenance during a move-out
Property Improvement
Emerson Properties provides the team needed to make improvements to enhance the condition of your property. These improvements add value to your property, make your rental more attractive than similar properties, or reduce the long-term maintenance costs of a property. Improvements increase the value of your investment.
Examples of home improvements could be:
- Remodeling kitchen, a bathroom or entire unit
- Replacing old appliances with new ones
- Upgrading flooring and lighting
- Replacement of windows
- Adding a deck or new egress
Home improvements are additions to a property that are intended to increase its value, as opposed to repairs that are required to restore a property to an acceptable state for rental purposes.