Category: Building Operations
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Building Engines’ New Property Management Networking Series
With the new year comes opportunities to increase our networks and better ourselves professionally. There’s no better source of education and insight than connecting with your peers who are facing the same challenges. To help property managers, building owners, and all others involved in Commercial Real Estate management, we have just hosted our first city…
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Quiz: Is Your Property Management Actually Under Control?
From tenant satisfaction and communication to managing work orders and getting the most of your building equipment, are you in-control of your properties? Take the quiz and find out! Building Engines is the Leader in Service Delivery Management We are the only provider to offer ALL of these tenant service tools in a single platform:…
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Kicking the Year Off
While I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions, probably because of my inability to keep them, I do love themes. You can build a plan and rally a group of people around a theme. A resolution is inflexible and individualistic. And as I’ve proven time and again, often unrealistically achievable. A theme is a…
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8 Efficient Ways to Slash Retail Property Maintenance Costs
There is a quote by American author Kurt Vonnegut, which sticks out in my mind when I think about property maintenance in commercial real estate – particularly in retail: “Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” Forward-thinking retail property managers and teams know this, and do everything they can to ensure that…
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Must-Read: Property Management Horror Stories
Halloween may be over, but our love for the candy and the amazing CRE Property Management Horror Stories that were shared will never subside. These stories contained several out of the ordinary scenarios that real-life property managers and building engineers faced while in the line of duty. Never before have risk management, tenant service, and…
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Your CRE Horror Story Survivor, Revealed!
Do you feel that chill in the air? Are goosebumps lining the back of your spine? It must mean it is Halloween, which makes it time to announce the winners of our “Share Your CRE Horror Story” contest! We had a lot of horrifying (and interesting) stories shared by your fellow commercial real estate professionals,…
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Can You Spot the Risk to Tenants?
You may think you know most of the ways that things could go wrong at your commercial property in terms of tenant and property risk, but there is only one way to know for sure – take our “Spot the Risk” Quiz! [qzzr quiz=”287256″ width=”100%” height=”auto” redirect=”true” offset=”0″]
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What’s Your CRE Horror Story?
If you’re in property management, you’re all too familiar with the bone-chilling horrors of outlandish tenant requests, nightmarish equipment failures, and unnerving incidents. Maybe your building is even haunted! We’d like to know how you manage these spooky risk management scenarios! Take our quick Halloween Mini-Survey and share your own CRE horror story, and you’ll…
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Where Are the CRE Property Management Thought Leaders?
An APB (all-points bulletin) is urgently needed for commercial real estate (CRE) property management thought leaders on the Web. They’re currently missing from the front lines of the property operations conversation taking place online – and that’s a problem. I have some ideas as to the reasons why this is the case, but before I go into…
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What 80’s Movie Character Are You as a Building Engineer?
Just as the brilliant 80’s hit from Simple Minds memorably exclaims in the film ‘The Breakfast Club,’ people want to feel recognized and noticed. And it is easy to forget that in the day-to-day hustle and bustle! A while back we ran a ‘What 80’s Movie Character Are You as a Property Manager‘ quiz, and…