How often do you inspect your properties

[Kevin Allen]

How often does everyone inspect your properties? Do you replace the air filters monthly yourself or allow the tenants to do it. I was thinking this would be a good reason to access the property regularly. Then maybe have a more thorough inspection just periodically. That way you could make sure the place wasn’t totally trashed on a monthly basis. Then when you do the inspection you could actually checkout the entire house and even fix anything that you may see that’s needs attention before it becomes a bigger problem.

[Jim K.]

i use changing out the batteries in the CO detectors and the smoke alarms as my excuse, as well as the furnace filters quarterly. So I am in the basements on a quarterly basis and up in the kitchen and bedrooms biannually. Tenants don't like to be told they're being inspected. In practice, in the older properties I work on, I'm in and out doing various fixes all the time. I always blame it on a lack of time management skills, but what I'm really doing is watching for developing issues.