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Reliable cleaning staff is definitely the biggest challenge. It's all too easy for unsupervised people to flake out hours before you have some renters with hig
by mchannon 9y ago
Reliable cleaning staff is definitely the biggest challenge.
It's all too easy for unsupervised people to flake out hours before you have some renters with high expectations due to move in. Some may have the courtesy to let you know beforehand, others after the fact, and still others will bill you anyway.
Others may not have a consistent work ethic (spit and wipe a few spots and spend the next three hours checking Facebook).
Getting the reliability numbers up is very expensive. I'm starting to see maintenance staff take before-and-after pictures as part of their work.
- kazinator 9y agoSupervision of cleaners, maintainers and repair contractors is a job for the business of property management. Those people can't slack off or do a crap job if they have to report to a management company, with which they aren't affiliated in any way. Property management is a solved problem; it's a problem that the very rich have (or big corporations) that own many properties in many locations. Even if you own a bunch of properties in the same metropolitan area, the same one where you live (so technically not remote), you can't be personally checking on everything that is going on in all of them; when on Earth will you have time for afternoon golf? It's a special case of the structure of any big business. Someone making fries at MacDonald's cannot slack off simply because the CEO of MacDonald's is on the other side of the world somewhere.
- jaggederest 9y agoThe question posed here though is explicitly one about problems experienced operating that business though. If you're managing a property, remote or no, you're doing property management.