Property management
Why we inspect
After years of managing property for other people, we think regular inspections are the single most important part of the job.
Once a tenant takes possession, most owners and most managers do not see the inside of the property again until move-out. We screen hard and we check with previous landlords, but there is no way to know in advance how someone will treat a home. A tenant can pay perfectly on time, never report a thing, and still hand back a property with problems — often because they have never owned a home and genuinely did not know what to look for.
What goes unnoticed, and what it costs
A leaking supply line under a bathroom sink
Nobody looks under there. A few drops behind a toilet from a failed wax seal is the same story. Left alone, either one rots out a bathroom floor and becomes a renovation costing thousands.
Pine straw sitting on an asphalt shingle roof
Pleasant trees, expensive consequence — it takes years off the shingles. One service call protects the roof.
An HVAC filter nobody has changed
Changing the filter is the single easiest thing that preserves an HVAC system, and most tenants never think about it. We have seen homes where the same filter stayed in for years. The system works harder pulling air through it, blows a capacitor or freezes up, and the technician's bill starts around $250 — assuming nothing else is damaged.
None of this is exotic. It is the same handful of problems over and over, and all of them are cheap to catch and expensive to miss.
What an inspection includes
- Detailed pictures of every room
- Leak check under sinks and around toilets
- Notes on potential issues
- Recommendations for immediate action
- HVAC filter change
- Detailed report in your owner portal
What it costs
Inspections are billed separately from the management fee, starting at $95 per inspection for a typical residential unit with a single air filter. We require 4 inspections a year on every property we manage — we don’t think we can do this job properly without being inside the property regularly.
Set against a plumbing call that never happened, or an HVAC system that didn’t fail, it is the cheapest line on the statement. See full management pricing.
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