{"id":69708,"date":"2015-01-23T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/renewsblog\/?p=69708"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:27:54","slug":"2015-01-23-act-nowlaterpreventative-maintenance-checklist-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/2015-01-23-act-nowlaterpreventative-maintenance-checklist-landlords","title":{"rendered":"Act Now, Thank Yourself Later: A Preventative Maintenance Checklist for Landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Importance of Doing Preventative Maintenance Walk Through inspections on your rentals\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uncvZKmTTgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During the first few years of owning and managing rental property, if someone asked, \u201cDo I perform preventative maintenance?\u201d I probably would have nodded\u00a0my head and told them, \u201cYes.\u201d However, as I look back, I don\u2019t think we fully appreciated nor understood the importance of preventive maintenance! Early on, I was much busier running around and performing \u201creactive\u201d maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 10 years later, we have come to execute a preventative maintenance plan. Preventative maintenance is so incredibly important whether you own 1 or 100 properties. It can save you time, money, and most importantly headaches down the road.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a title=\"The Key to Saving Money in Real Estate: Property Maintenance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/save-money-take-time-maintain-properties\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Key to Saving Money in Real Estate: Property Maintenance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope this short five minute video helps provide some background on the importance of preventative maintenance and most importantly five areas to look for during your preventative maintenance walkthroughs.<\/p>\n<p><em>As always, it is great to hear feedback. What am I missing? What works for you during your preventative maintenance walkthroughs?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leave a comment below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the first few years of owning and managing rental property, if someone asked, \u201cDo I perform preventative maintenance?\u201d I probably would have nodded\u00a0my head and told them, \u201cYes.\u201d However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1673,"featured_media":69760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landlording"],"acf":[],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}