Property Manager - Excessive Maintenance

[Ragnar Lothbrok]

Good afternoon all,

I have recently put both of my rental properties in the trusting care of a property manager. Things seem to be going well, I drove by both properties the other day and they seemed to be in good shape. However. It seems to be fairly consistent that I will get a maintenance charge. For the past 5 months, I've paid out $730 on top of the 10% PM fee. Certain repairs include $100 to unclog 2 drains, and $125 for a garage door wheel replacement. The later having been done myself for $10 before the new tenant arrived.

I know maintenance is something to be expected, and it is budged for, but this goes a little bit over my most conservative estimate. At what point do you think I should I recognize this as excessive maintenance costs? If this is the case, is it too much to ask them to run every maintenance cost through me first? Or how would you best limit this?