The Benefits of Maintenance Scheduling for Property Management

Scheduling repairs for your property is challenging when you aren’t working with the right tools. Imagine having to send multiple emails to coordinate maintenance for one service request. Or worse—making several calls to initiate the process. These scheduling approaches can be time-consuming for you and frustrating for your residents. Because so much of your relationship with your tenants depends on timely responses to maintenance inquiries, utilizing the right maintenance scheduling process is key.

Benefits of an Effective Maintenance Scheduling Process

Typically defined as the process of timing planned work and providing the details necessary to complete a task, maintenance scheduling enables you to arrange, organize, and coordinate service requests so your maintenance technicians perform them correctly and in a timely manner. Understandably, there are many benefits to implementing an effective scheduling process for your company.

Enhance Productivity

Building structure into your maintenance process will enable your technicians to focus on their tasks and improve the accuracy and quality of the work they perform.

Boost Efficiency

Being able to track the time it takes to complete a service request can help optimize your resources, resulting in a more efficient operation.

Lower Costs

Identifying problems with appliances and equipment in a timely manner can help save money on repairs and minimize downtime.

Streamline Workflows

By aligning your maintenance requests with the appropriate technicians, you’ll streamline the entire work process.

Reduce Stress

With a more organized approach to maintenance issues, there will be fewer last-minute tasks to worry about—reducing stress for you and your team.

Increase Resident Satisfaction

Promptly addressing renter requests builds trust and improves their overall satisfaction with your property.

Improve Communication

As service issues are created, assigned, tracked, and closed in Rent Manager Express, you and your team are notified throughout the entire process.

Save Time and Resources

An efficient scheduling process saves you time and resources, allowing you to focus on other aspects of your business.

Maintenance Scheduling in Rent Manager Express

The Maintenance Scheduling feature in Rent Manager Express lets you create workflows that effortlessly manage your daily issues and maintenance technician schedules directly in the program. It also allows you to slate service issues for specific blocks of time and assign them to your techs based on their availability.

Once assigned to a service issue, your technicians can view their personal timetables in the rmAppSuite Pro mobile app, giving them instant access while in the field. Additionally, your residents can use the Tenant Web Access (TWA) portal or the rmResident mobile app to select available time slots to schedule service requests on their own. Further, you’ll receive automated notifications when requests are created, scheduled, confirmed, and closed—keeping you informed at all times.

Conclusion

An effective maintenance scheduling process is crucial to the success of any property management company. Maintenance scheduling can increase productivity and efficiency, reduce expenses and stress, simplify workflows, and much more. For more information about the Maintenance Scheduling feature in Rent Manager Express, contact us today at Sales@RentManager.com.