Maintenance for properties

[Jeremy Lepman]

I’m an employee for a property management company that only maintains our own properties. About 100 units all together. We currently have a maintenance team of about 15 people that perform maintenance duties and even some rehabs for certain properties. However, we run into a lot of issues we our maintenance team. As with many industries we have staffing problems with our maintenance department. We also have issues finding talented workers that will show up on time. We have tried to develop a team that is able to do rehabs/remodels but they tend to take a long time to complete. Unlike a vendor or sub, there is little incentive to finish the work quickly/efficiently. I was just wondering if anyone else is having these issues or how they have dealt with them in the past? Do most of you use different vendors for rehabs and just have a maintenance team for small fixes? Any help would be greatly appreciated!