maintenance issues: HELP! It's an EMERGENCY!!! Yeah, right... - 01/23/13 12:38 PM
Over the last few years working in property management software, I haven’t had the joy of getting called in the middle of the night with an “emergency” situation (which, 9 out of 10 times were never emergencies.) Although, I do get a chuckle when I get to hear my customers tell me their war-stories. When I was a site manager, I had a rule I would try to enforce that an emergency is “FIRE, FLOOD or BLOOD.”  Anything that could wait until business hours, should. Nevertheless, I would get calls from frantic tenants and those who I felt were simply bored.My … (6 comments)

maintenance issues: I TOLD YOU SO! (Mother's failed landlord career) - 05/02/12 12:23 PM
I  just got off of the phone with my mother.  Her two renters just gave notice to move, her property manager is threatening to quit and her live-in maintenance man can not be reached.  And it was all I could do to not say "I told you so."  My mother has a giant, soft heart and it gets a work-over often by wayward souls.  This time it was Bob.  Bob the maintenance man. Bob and my mother lived in the same small town and he seemed like such a nice guy.  She had a good "gut" feeling about him.  (We all … (12 comments)

maintenance issues: 10 MILLION-ANT-INVASION! And I'm not kidding... - 02/23/12 02:52 PM
From time-to-time, around our property, I see a carpent ant trail. I have done my research and know that if I follow the trail, eventually I will find a nest. I know there can be several satelite nests that form away from the "mother-load." The trail I see always appears in a similar location and I have followed the trail to a bark-dusted area by a creek bordering our property. I figured the ants were just eating the bark dust as I hadn't seen a "nest" anywhere. But, as a preventative measure, I would dust the perimeter of our home and … (8 comments)

 
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