What would you do? (Fixing up apartments)

[Clint Larson]

Hi all, I'm a fairly new multi-family owner looking for some advice on getting my units ready without stepping on the property manager's toes too much.

I have two vacant units and a common area that I'm trying to get up to market quality.  Right now my property manager's maintenance folks are spread among their other properties under management; therefore I'm having to wait in line to get these basic things done (basic handyman deferred maintenance items) before the units can be listed. 

If it was you, would you wait until the property manager's maintenance people were available, or would you call up a local handyman and get the items knocked out? 

Thank you.

[John Warren]

@Clint Larson this is a common problem that people have when dealing with small PM companies. If you are local and have good handyman resources, I would reach out to some folks and get the jobs done asap. This is especially true for the vacant units. As someone who manages 32 doors myself in the Berwyn/Lyons, IL area, I find it fascinating how slow property management companies (especially small PM companies) can be at doing the basics of apartments. Vacant apartments equal no revenue! You need to get those fixed up and rented back out asap.