Your Maintenance Strategy for Rentals

[Ehab Shoukry]

Hi all -

I am up to nine SFR rental properties and am starting to get maintenance requests from my residents. Some of them are very minor such as tightening an outlet that has come lose which is a 5 minute fix.

I inherited a maintenance man who does good work but likes to get paid $150 a day whenever I require his services.  This works out well when I need him to change out a couple of window units or do sheetrock repair but to tighten a plug it's not so great.

I'm interested in how folks with multiple properties have agreements in place with their maintenance crews/contractors?  What would be the best approach for me with 9 houses?  I'm not ready to hire a full-time maintenance person.

I was also thinking about buying a home warranty on all the houses as another solution.  I'm open to feedback on that as well.

Thanks,

Ehab