ServusConnect Blog Regaining Control of Your Make-Readys and Renovations

One of the greatest puzzles of multifamily housing management is how to speed up and automate turns and renovations. From lost rent revenue to increasing costs, they can be cause a major change to the margins that you are operating under.This area of the business is also one where technology has not been applied yet. Make ready boards and personal responsibility remain the glue that holds these projects together. However, unplanned absences, oversights, and things like having the magnets fall off the board! A simple technology solution could save a lot of time and energy in this department. Taking the process to the cloud allows seamless communication and automation among maintenance operators, service technicians, and vendors. All this coordination allows people to follow up on completed jobs faster, allowing you to get that unit rented out again.ServusConnects Project functionality can allow you to actively manage projects while also having a set it and forget it approach to decrease lag between jobs and allows the system to push the project forward if you forget to check in on it.The project functionality of ServusConnect can begin based on an output from your current ERP (a move out date or new renovation project) or can be started manually by a project manager. Once the project is created, the project manager can assign all the tasks that need to be done for that project to the various vendors that they want to accomplish those tasks. The project can then work in a waterfall work flow without the intervention of the project manager unless they want to.For example, as soon as the painters were done and completed their task through the Servus App, then the flooring professionals would be notified that they were then able to go into the unit and do their job. This lack of lag time really helps speed up the turn process and helps prevent tasks and projects from slipping through the cracks.Another added benefit of the increased control and data you have over turns is the insights that it can offer you into your property and can offer a comparison across properties. For example, if one renovation costs significantly more than another, you will have a record of why so that you can try to prevent something like that from happening in the future. This increased accounting also allows you to track more closely against your budget which can make planning for next year and any discussions about budget changes that much easier.Enabling property managers to control their turns and renovations proved to be a tough problem. But at ServusConnect, we know the software that we have created will allow your maintenance team to run faster and smoother.