Property Meld Blog

7 Nightmares of Property Managers and Home Owners

If you are a property manager or own a home that is used as a rental, you probably have experienced a few nightmares of your own. We scoured the internet […]

Simplify Maintenance Coordination with these Tips

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if your maintenance process moved as smoothly as a conveyor belt? A work-order request enters on one end and a happy resident exits on the opposite side. Well, we are here to tell you it can.

Why Leading and Lagging Indicators Matter to Your Maintenance Business

There’s never been a more important time to understand the difference between leading and lagging indicators for maintenance. Leading indicators tell you what’s going to happen, whereas lagging indicators tell […]

How to Set Up a Successful Remote Maintenance Division

Talk to any property manager and the conversation will eventually shift towards maintenance and all of the challenges that come with it. Our property managers would report that over 50% […]

How Property Managers are Handling Maintenance in the Age of COVID

What’s going on in property management in uncertain times, and what you can do to help stop the bleeding.

How to Ensure Maintenance Issues Don’t Stunt Your Company’s Growth

When growth is the ultimate goal, it’s easy to just focus your attention on sales, revenue, and profit. But stable and sustainable growth isn’t only about the bottom line. It’s […]

How Maintenance Affects Your Business’s Bottom Line, Part 2

In our previous post, we stressed the importance of understanding the basic mathematics of your company’s maintenance operation. In other words, you must know how much money your maintenance program […]

How Maintenance Affects Your Business’s Bottom Line, Part 1

Running a profitable, successful property management business is no small feat. There are housing units to be cleaned, shown, filled with new residents and turned over at the end of […]

The Problem with Maintenance and Accounting Systems

Accounting systems and property management go hand in hand. So should maintenance…

HVAC Invoices by Season and Region

Is HVAC seasonal? Well, if You Think HVAC Invoices Only Bite In the Summer, You’re Wrong. Here’s How to Protect Yourself from Sticker Shock At Property Meld, we constantly analyze […]

What KPIs Matter in Property Maintenance?

Some businesses define success as ever-increasing revenues and profits. Yet this simple definition comes with a catch: revenue and profits are lagging indicators, meaning that you’re already feeling the heat by […]

Are You Running Your Maintenance Operation Like a Business Or Is It Running You?

Running your maintenance operation and any other sort of business is quite similar. Are you hitting the business mark?

What Maintenance Satisfaction Says About Your Operation

At Property Meld, we believe that if you want your property management business to be successful, there’s perhaps nothing more vital than ensuring maintenance satisfaction is high with your tenants […]

The Legal Reasons For an Automated Maintenance Process

In a notoriously litigious field of work, property managers should be aware of risk mitigation opportunities.

How the Tech Industry has Impacted Property Management

The intensity and rate at which technology disrupts the world and its systems is exponential. In other words, we’ve only touched the surface of its effects and they’ll likely arrive […]

How to Ensure a Quality Maintenance Process

A quality Maintenance Satisfaction Program means happier residents. Happier residents translate to better reviews and higher resident retention. Positive reviews and resident retention lead to increased revenue and fewer resident turnover […]

Property Management Preparations for Winter

Don’t let the lack of air-conditioning problems fool you…winter has its fair share of maintenance woes.

Showcasing the Benefits of Smart Maintenance to your Vendors

Oftentimes, all it takes to convince a property manager of the many benefits of a smart maintenance solution is a walkthrough of the software. Once they find themselves onboard, however, […]

Top 10 Most Common Property Maintenance Issues

Utilizing our data, we compiled a list of the top 10 most common maintenances issues you can expect to encounter as a property manager.

The Correlation Between Maintenance and Resident Retention

The maintenance process from the resident perspective can affect your bottom line.

How Long Should a Make Ready Take?

In evaluating the time it takes to turn a property, there is a wide range of variables that all property management companies juggle. There are some commonalities that come into play when determining the average time for a turn.

Trends From Thousands of Maintenance Processes

In discovering what makes a maintenance process tick, we have uncovered many similarities in operations across North America. Some of those similarities are good, and some are not so good.

Ensuring Profitability for an Internal Maintenance Staff

Creating a profitable internal maintenance team can be difficult; this article will explain how you can track/ensure your employees are profit centers and not cost centers.

The Cost of Rental Turnover

Vacant properties pose to be an issue because of the obvious loss to your monthly income. Over time that loss of income escalates to a dangerous point for a property owner.

Does Your Maintenance Process Stack Up To Others In The Industry?

Property Meld can send you a personalized maintenance analysis at no charge, evaluating these three components, along with more important factors to prepare you for even higher success.

Maintenance Survival Mode in the Summer Months

Today’s data is showing that the summer months are when 80% of people are moving into new properties and when maintenance issues increase by 57%. Many property managers and owners tend to call this, stuck in “survival mode.”

Why Residents Leave Their Rental Properties

Change in financial situation, bad neighbors, poor communication, and maintenance are just a few reasons why renters leave their units. Read our blog article to get a better understanding of what tenants are balancing when making the choice to stay or leave their rental property.