Why Use a Property Maintenance Company Instead of Contractors?

For anyone using a property maintenance company in Coventry or the surrounding area, using a single point of contact over individual companies is a no brainer. The advantages of opting for professional property maintenance are obvious and numerous. Here are just a handful of reasons why any property owner or housing association may want to go down this route.

Why Use a Property Maintenance Company Instead of Contractors?

Cost Effectiveness

The most important reason for many individuals and companies is that it’s simply cheaper. Individual contractors charge per hour, with a minimum call out charge and very often an out of hours premium (unluckily, the time when contractors are most urgently needed.) However, property maintenance companies in Coventry will often provide an ‘all encompassing’ service that includes all of the aforementioned fees in the cost of the contract.

Put quite simply, if ‘Mr Smith Property Maintenance’ get a call from their client at 3am complaining about a broken boiler or smashed window, one of their contractors will head out there and remedy the problem without so much as a whisper about a ‘call out fee’.

For a landlord with two or three properties, this can be an easy cost saver; for a housing association, hotel chain or public body, it can be the difference between profit and loss. It’s no wonder that any major body will often be seen with liveried vehicles for maintenance companies on site, rather than one man bands or the archetypal ‘white van man’.

Service and Company Knowledge

One thing that any client wants more than a successfully completed job is someone who knows both the company and the properties that they own or manage. This cannot be achieved by using different contractors each time for one off or repeated jobs.

However, not only will a dedicated property maintenance company be visiting repeatedly and learning about the properties on its roster, but very often they will begin the contract having fully surveyed such properties, meaning that, the moment they set foot on site, they are aware of operating practices from day one.

Time Saving

No more running through Yelp and finding reviews for pest controllers, plumbers and electricians; one phone call to a dedicated service desk and the job is in hand within minutes. It’s as a simple as that!

 

Sources:

Maintenance and Repair: How to maintain your ‘buy-to-let’ property, PropertyInvesting.net

Property Maintenance Services Are Beneficial In Every Way, Yatmm

About Jack Jandu

has written 77 post in this blog.