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Apartment pest control

Mike Brewer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:27:43 +0000

I received some feedback on the Moth balls and bugs post yesterday and because I’m not sure of the answer I decided to throw it out to the group. Here is the feedback – courtesy of Nathan.

“Thanks for sharing…we will have to try that out at our property!
Any ideas how to get rid of a huge cloud of knats that are hanging out
just outside of my models front door! ”

What I would say is that there has to be a source. I know when I see knats in my home I immediately go to the fruit bowl I keep, more times than not I have to throw something out. It usually solves the problem.

Are there any other thoughts out there relative to this problem?

Apartment pest control, multifamily maintenance

MROinformation.com

Mike Brewer — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:24:10 +0000

Maintenance, Repair and Operations

I really like what Todd is trying to do with this site. Take a look and tell me what you think.

I took the following off of the About Us section of the site.

Most property owners / managers know that property maintenance is the most
controllable expense on the property. When properly budgeted and purchasing
guidelines in place the difference on revenue can be substantial.

Vendor Solutions will utilize 25 years of experience with facility management to
focus on building a relationship between facility maintenance professionals
and MRO (maintenance,repair and operations) product suppliers.

We are committed to your business development and can help streamline your
vendor and sourcing choices in order to obtain the highest value for goods and
services from the most qualified suppliers.

Our clients will also be supported with the resources from these web sites
as well as other value added components.

MROinformation.com

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Apartment Maintenace

Mike Brewer — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:49:31 +0000

Stanley helps you do things right. That was the jingle when I was growing up, at least I think it was.

This site is for all you service guys/gals that ever wanted to just beat the daylights out of something. Have fun with it.

On a marketing note, it seems we could develop some sort of interactive experience like this to market our apartment homes. Something like Community Theater on steriods. By the way, great product For Rent. I love it.

I wonder if we will see the day where an avatar will tour us through our virtual communities not unlike like the business’ that participate in Second Life.

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Maintenance Rally

Mike Brewer — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:55:08 +0000

Have you every needed to get a ton of apartments ready in short amount of time? Set up a contest. When I managed sites in Portland we had just such a opportunity. We created a contest where we hand picked two teams and pit them against each other with the goal being to turn as many apartments as they could in one day. At the end of the day my fellow RM and me judged the quality of each of the turns in order to determine a winner. That day the two teams busted out 8 turns.

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Power Caulk Gun

Mike Brewer — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:13:15 +0000

Now what service guy or gal would not want this toy?