Outsourcing Maintenance Requests

[Matthew Irish-Jones]

HI All,

My partners and I own 25+ units.  We are also managing 10 units for others with another 10-20 on the way.  We are struggling with minor maintenance repairs, dishwasher not working, broken lock, toilet clogged etc...  These jobs are too small for any of our contractors so they won't take them.  For the most part we are doing all of these little repairs ourselves but, with our added growth we will not be able to do this much longer.

Other property management companies in the area are charging $25-$35 per hour for maintenance.  We are finding handymen that are $40-50 bucks an hour.  We are not large enough to hire a full time person yet but, too large to handle all of the work ourselves.

Anyone else had this issue?  Any advice would be great.