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Apartment Maintenance: Turnover Paint Line

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No doubt the question will come; why is my turnover paint line so off? Why are we over budget so much? 

The law that has been on again off again over the past two to three years is here and it’s real. According to a local STL rehabber blog that I read occasionaly, the EPA is coming out big in the way of fines. 

There is no doubt that many contractors and property owners are going to simply ignore this new law (it hasn’t been publicized much), but it seems that the feds have thought ahead about that. They have instituted a fine system which can charge violators up to $37,500 a day for not following the rules. Most small-time operators would probably not see such large fines, but the EPA is certainly taking a punitive approach to this new rule.

What have you done to prep for this moment? Do you use in-house painters and or contracted third parties to paint your apartments? This will no doubt be a burden for all involved. 

Your, I used to eat paint chips when I was a kid, blog partner

M

Apartment Garbage Disposal Repair

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This one is for you service supervisors out there that need a little video to augment your hands on training. Think repetition. Play to the various ways of learning information.

This video demonstrates how to fix your garbage disposal.

Office teams, how many times have you tried to describe that little button on the bottom of the disposal or that cock-eyed wrench you use to get the motor going again after junior put his hot-wheel down the drain. Why not send this over instead?


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