When to Outsource Your Property Maintenance Services
When it comes to deciding how to handle property maintenance services, it often boils down to the question of whether you should use in-house techs or outsource your property maintenance work. Some of the key considerations for this property maintenance services decision include:
For multi-family property managers who will handle the majority of their residential property maintenance services with their in-house team of technicians, it doesn’t always make sense to keep tasks in-house. Sometimes, it is both more cost-effective and operationally efficient to outsource your property maintenance work to local licensed professionals.
Here are some of the considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to outsource property maintenance services and tasks or to use your in-house tech(s):
The best property managers are those who are both responsive and proactive with their property maintenance services. These traits help keep renters happy, which leads to them becoming long-term renters. However, while having the same in-house techs handling all of your property maintenance tasks is great, there also are some considerations:
With in-house techs, there may be a stack of work orders to get through, slowing down your responsiveness to renter requests. And, when you hire a conventional third-party service provider for property maintenance services, you need to make an appointment that works for their schedule, which could take days or even weeks. Thankfully, these aren’t your only choices — there are other options, which include:
Hiring a temporary technician to handle select property maintenance needs seems like a great idea on paper. However, when you hire a temp tech, you’re hiring someone to work a set number of hours — regardless of whether they spend significantly less time doing the job. So if you hire them for eight hours and a project only takes three, you still owe them the other five hours of pay.
At HOMEE, our experts (known as “Homees”) are on-demand professionals who are available when you need them. Using the Homee On Demand app is like keeping an electrician, handyman, plumber, and HVAC repairman on call. You have immediate access to an on-demand professional who will show up at your door in about 30 minutes of you placing a repair order — anytime, day or night, 365 days a year — with just the tap of a button on a mobile app.
Other benefits of using Homee On Demand’s network of local experts for your property maintenance services include:
But, how does HOMEE measure up cost-wise to other in-house or third-party service provider options?
When it comes to the costs of the property maintenance aspect of property management, many things need to be considered. Some of the hard costs of property maintenance services include:
In addition to the hard costs of property maintenance services, some of the soft costs of property maintenance include:
Embrace the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of outsourcing your property maintenance services to licensed and insured Homees. Please connect with us by clicking on the image below. Or, contact our team of experts if you have questions about HOMEE’s solution for residential property maintenance services.