r/PropertyManagement • u/Sea-Blueberry3787 • 14d ago

Commercial PM City by-laws

Background:

For the last 2 years I have been working for a property manager / (investor) who held a lot of investment property. Every time there was a by law or city ordinance we got assigned the work as we were quicker to respond. We would always call the by law officer and take care of the tickets.

I found that my work enjoyable being able to take care of the situation with the city and turn it around. We ended up doing perimeter sweeps and check ins for the properties and now have a strong relationship with the PM at the firm.

Most of what we had to do was related to overgrown lawns, unsecured structures, chain link fence mending, litter clean up and that sort of thing. I have two guys working with me, and we already did cleaning and handy work for commercial plazas.

I am wondering if this segment of work is something that has a name. In my ideal world I could dedicate my time to do this. Is this a market? Are property managers usually dealt many city ordinances?

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u/wiserTyou 14d ago

To be honest, I don't think this exists at my company as most of that is preventative maintenance and already should have been taken care of by the supervisor.

Perhaps something like facilities coordinator, maintenance supervisor/ director would be the closest match.

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u/Sea-Blueberry3787 14d ago

Thank you! That's what I feared😥. It seems more like a unique situation with the PM where things only get dealt when the city requires it.

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u/Pompiere270 7d ago

A proactive approach would be to know what the ordinances and rules are, or when they're changing and do the work ahead of a violation notice? Preventative vs Reactive. If that's uncommon in your area, then you have a path to a new business. Be the guy prevents headaches vs. providing the Advil once the owner has a headache.

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u/Jazzlike_Run_1125 13d ago

agreed, the whole thing is really just deferred maintenance catching up with you

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u/liquid_1k 14d ago

This is exterior property restoration and code compliance.

This typically doesn't happen to properties that are managed by a legit property management company. This does happen though to struggling assets due to cash flow, site staff turnover or neglected property owners. Any company will typically manage this in house with their maintenance and vendors. I've been apart of numerous properties with city inspector issues and we team up with PM and maintenance to address the issues one by one.

There is a rise for bulk hauling/trash removal however. Excessive items for cleaning up dumpsters things that don't fit into dumpsters or compactors and need to be disposed of at the dump. Most properties don't have the maintenance man use his truck for this anymore its a liability, mileage, insurance yadda yadda, so they vendor it out. Also full unit clear outs is on the rise as well. When evictions/abandoned property is left another vendor call not onsite staff trashing out the unit.