The maintenance list I check before every lease renewal

[Giuseppe Cavucci]

Somewhere along the way I stopped treating lease renewal as just a rent conversation and started treating it as a maintenance checkpoint too.

Before I send a renewal offer, I go through every major system in the unit, roof, HVAC, water heater, appliances, and check the age against what's typical for that system. If something's getting close to end of life, I plan for it during the gap between tenants instead of hoping it holds another year.

It's changed the rhythm of how I manage things. Instead of maintenance being something that interrupts a tenancy, it's now something that happens on a schedule I control, usually timed around turnover when the unit's easier to work on anyway.

Curious how others time their bigger maintenance decisions. Do you tie it to lease renewals too, or is it more ad hoc whenever something needs attention?