Title:
Many Flooring Options - Leverage vendors to solve daily flooring challenges.
Summary:
In this episode, the many different options on how to solve flooring problems. Many landlords forget that good vendors do refer to other good vendors in order to solve the vast array of flooring issues that landlords face daily. Knowing the options will help Landlords be more profitable!
Recorded:
November 15, 2019
Host:
Kassandra Taggart / Scott Turknett
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Show Notes:
Introduction
.34 Introduction to speaker: Scott with Pioneer Floorcare: Family Owned Business and enjoy helping others
2:00 Believe companies cultures start with the Business Owner.
4:00 Setting realistic expectations is needed in any business.
5:10 You are marring a tenant for 1 year, so you want it to start on the right foot.
5:30 Story of a TLA member had 2’’ water on the floor. The strategy on how it was dried out. How it saved the landlord on not having to do drywall / paint repair.
7:29 What goes through the mind of a landlord when a leak happens
8:56 Question? When do you know you can do it yourself with a shopvac.
9:30 Example if you were to paint yourself vs using a neighborhood kid.
11:00 Sometimes landlords are tight on funds so we have to provide options to fit in the budget.
12:10 Story about a landlord that tried to use RugDoctor themselves to save money.
12:28 Condition you give it is the expectations of the condition you’ll receive it in.
13:30 There is a time and place to be cheap
15:34: Forum Question about clean or replace flooring as they are moving back into the property in the future.
17:27: Carpet stretching is important and why
31:46 Smoking in unit damage
33:00 Painting walls for the smoke damage
33:28 Flooring smells; smoke bomb as an option
34:30 Equipment that reuses water
35:00 Water in septic systems
37:00 Municipality of Anchorage changed the policy about septic system
38:00 Story about a landlord that had a full failure and what happened to the lease
39:00 Landlord Question: Toilet Overflow/Leak
39:50 Types of water classifications
43:00 Story of a landlord that had mushroom in the carpet from a tenant not reporting and landlord opted out of the inspection
45:00 Having the vendor also report issues with the property or tenant.
45:50 Scott personal story of what happened during the big Alaska Earthquake
51.50 Using a tenant to complete the repairs on a rental
57:00 Using Craigs vendor vs a professional
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