Category: Building Operations
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Property Management Incidents You NEVER Want to See, and How to Avoid Them
Tell me if you’ve had a morning like this… My morning was going great. I just sat down in the management office of my building with a nice cup of coffee, just the way I like it, from my favorite coffee shop. Traffic was light coming in, with no horn honking or accidents to delay…
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Weekly Building Beat: The CRE Economy, Going Green, and Retail Best Practices
You’ve got a lot going on. We get it. It isn’t easy to find the time to scour the internet for the latest property management and commercial real estate news when you’ve got a job to do. With ‘The Weekly Building Beat,’ you won’t have to waste time searching. We hand-select the best industry content…
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A Brief Guide to Tackling Pesky Preventive Maintenance Tasks
Everyone remembers their first car. The name of mine was Chuck, and it was a 1998 Saturn passed down from my older brother. It was a new sense of freedom to be able to drive myself to school and go out with friends on the weekend. What I wasn’t prepared for was the responsibility of…
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7 Ways for Property Managers to Dance Their Stress Away
Do you ever have those days when you just want to smash a guitar like Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell?” Or maybe Witchy Woman describe you better? “A restless spirit on an endless flight.” Well you can always do like Daniel Powter, “Stand in the line just to hear the new low” and feel sorry…
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Get Rid of Unfinished Work Orders Once and For All
“I absolutely love it when work orders are completed, but I hate it when they pile up and aren’t finished.” Sound familiar? Frustration over unfinished work orders is a pretty common problem, which often leads to a resentment towards incoming work requests. But before you go and point the blame, consider this: Maybe one of…
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Responding to Building Incidents the Right Way
How confident are you that you would be able to quickly react to an incident in your building the moment it occurs? A whopping 49% of property management organizations surveyed just last year on their risk management practices revealed that they don’t conduct Emergency Scenario Training sessions, which are geared towards improving emergency response times…
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Collaboration in Full Effect at Building Engines Client Summit
I’m just back from our Executive Advisory Board Client Summit held in Atlanta this week and reflecting a bit on the many conversations and takeaways from an intense and exciting couple of days. The format we prepared included the usual items for these types of events such as product road map reviews, infrastructure and technology…
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Why Risk Management is Essential for Protecting Your Commercial Real Estate Business
As a member of the commercial real estate market you are no doubt familiar with the concept of “risk management.” But what does it really mean? In short: protection. Think about that for a moment. You would do anything to protect your loved ones and household assets from disaster, be it natural, accidental, or otherwise.…
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The Verdict Is In: See Which 80’s Movie Character Most Property Managers Relate To
Just a few short weeks ago we shared a little Buzzfeed style quiz designed to help property managers determine which 80’s movie character they resemble in the workplace. (And to have a little bit of fun, of course!) While we expected the quiz to be a fun short diversion from your workday, we are astonished…
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Keep the Commercial Real Estate Emergency Preparedness Kit in the trunk of your car
Just as the siren on a Fire Engine fades as it drives away (the Doppler Effect), September/National Preparedness Month is also disappearing into the horizon. It’s a good time to reflect on how you spent your summer, how shocked you are that September is almost over, how cool the Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse was, and how…