Author: Kyle Maikath
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Think Long-term to Improve Tenant Relationships
Unfortunately, a recent survey by Jones Lang LaSalle found that companies often take a more short-term approach when dealing with real estate decisions. This could potentially expose firms to risk and result in missed opportunities. Within the last few years, more organizations have been focused on reducing costs. However, cutting back on preventive maintenance could cause…
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Canadian Court Case Highlights Need for Record-Keeping
Building owners need to be mindful of their impact on local watersheds and, in some cases, may be required to take extra steps to protect wildlife.
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Staying Ahead of Repairs with Regular Inspections
To stay on top of maintenance issues, building managers may need to conduct regular inspections of their properties.
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Learning to Read Good in Building Service Technology
Working for a private company, it is easy to become narrowly focused – focused on the people who buy and use your product. It’s kind of like election goggles. You become focused on solving specific and immediate problems, cutting costs and applying technology to real world situations – things with tangible and foreseeable results. I…
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Obama Nominates Joe Donovan to Administration Post
We love each and every one of our customers, and their successes even more! Today we’re putting the customer spotlight on our favorite emergency preparedness expert. Joe Donovan, SVP at Beacon Capital Partners, was recently nominated by President Obama to a key Administration post as a member on the Board of Directors of the National…
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How Technology Has Changed your Workplace
According to a recent BUILDINGS article, the vast majority of American companies (90%) plan to invest more in productivity-enabling technologies by 2015. Leading-edge technologies are a known strategy for companies to reduce expenses, increase productivity, and even attract talent. But what do they mean for the average worker? Here’s 3 ways technology has changed the…
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3 Ways to Get Your Team on Board with New Technology
It’s rarely easy to initiate a new order of things. As someone who often deploys BEI to new customers with no prior system or technology in place, I am familiar with the challenge of showing users the value of a new process. The software and methods associated with using it can help them in their…
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The Power of Pressing the Flesh
That said, there is something to be said still for the in person meeting. I have many strong relationships with clients that I have never met in person. Some I speak to almost daily and feel that I know them like old friends. When you finally meet these “old friends” in person, something changes.
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How Well Are You Meeting Your SLAs?
So your company signed a ho-hum SLA with your tenants. It outlines the level of services that are expected and details around your company’s standards to preserve and maintain the property and its related services to the occupants. You’ve set the parameters of your responsibilities and deliverables and the tenant is reassured and content to…