Snow Maintenance Tips

[Daniel Lehman]

This is my first winter as a landlord and I'm wondering how I should go about snow maintenance. I own a 3 unit and it's about a 15 minute (20 minutes in bad weather) drive which isn't too bad but I am wondering on the timing of when I should go to shovel and salt.

I don't mind going once in the morning and once in the evening, but I'm trying to avoid going more than I have to.

Should I keep an eye on the forecast for that location and try and go when the snow lets up to make the most of my trip?

Should I go when I know there's probably not a lot of snow to shovel what's there and salt?

I don't want to overdo it but don't want to under do it as well. 

Any tips on how you guys handle taking care of snow maintenance and how you time it so-to-speak would help a lot! Thank you.

[James Wise]

Originally posted by @Daniel Lehman:

This is my first winter as a landlord and I'm wondering how I should go about snow maintenance. I own a 3 unit and it's about a 15 minute (20 minutes in bad weather) drive which isn't too bad but I am wondering on the timing of when I should go to shovel and salt.

I don't mind going once in the morning and once in the evening, but I'm trying to avoid going more than I have to.

Should I keep an eye on the forecast for that location and try and go when the snow lets up to make the most of my trip?

Should I go when I know there's probably not a lot of snow to shovel what's there and salt?

I don't want to overdo it but don't want to under do it as well. 

Any tips on how you guys handle taking care of snow maintenance and how you time it so-to-speak would help a lot! Thank you.

 You shouldn't need to deal with snow on anything that's less than 4 units. This is on the tenants to handle.