DonTx Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 I'm curious as to how many of you perform Annual Maintenance inspections? What all is checked? What program or check sheet do you use? How do you charge? Thanks, Donald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Knight Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 Donald, I do annual maintenance inspections for a few long time clients. One is a town home association, one is the owner of a chain of convienience stores and one is a group home company. The convienience stores and group homes both started as inspection customers. I have inspected numerous buildings prior to purchase for both customers. After doing the inspection work, After doing several inspections for each client I sent a followup letter suggesting the annual maintenance inspection. I was originally hired by the home owners association to do inspections of all the building exteriors in the development and to provide a recommended maintenance plan for the building exteriors and recommend an annual maintenace budget. I use 3D as my inspection software and have customized forms for all three clients. I use the summary function in 3D to identify items which need repair in the next year, items needing repair in years 2-5 and items that will probably need repair or replacement in years 5-10. I use an Excell Spreadsheet to provide estimated maintenance budgets for each period. I gave all three clients a price proposal based on my estimate of the time required to do the work. All three clients want the report at a different time of year and I can schedule the actual time I'm at the property on short notice. For the group home and convienience store properties I generally contact to building manager the day before the inspection. This lets me schedule this work when I don't have other inspections. For the Town Home Association it takes me a whole day to do the field work. As I only do the building exteriors I don't have to schedule the work with anyone. This job is close to home and depending on my schedule I may do this on one day or parts of two days. Part of this job includes attending an Association Board Meeting which always takes 2-3 hours. I keep trying to expand this part of my business by sending out letters to possible maintenace inspection customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Thomas Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 Steve, Great Info, Thanks from the rest of us. Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonTx Posted September 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 Ditto what Bruce said, Thanks Steve!! I decided to make my own maintenance form via MS Word. I'll probably implement some of your ideas. Donald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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