Updated August 2026. AB 628 took effect January 1, 2026. The statute has not been amended since. This update adds enforcement guidance published after the effective date. California has introduced a significant update to tenant […]
Artificial intelligence has moved from the margins of property management into the mainstream. Adoption is up, and most operators can point to at least one area where new technology has helped them work more efficiently. […]
A predictive maintenance strategy for a rental portfolio uses work order history, asset age, repeat-call patterns, and vendor completion data to forecast which assets will need attention next, then schedules that work before residents report […]
Property maintenance falls apart for want of visibility rather than effort. When every request sounds urgent, schedules are built on guesswork, and technicians are overloaded without warning, even well-run operations slide into daily firefighting. Predictive […]
Most property management teams track maintenance the way they track weather: they notice it when it turns bad. Work orders get counted, complaints get escalated, and the performance conversation runs on whoever remembers the worst […]
Pull a month of completed work orders and sort them by how close the final invoice landed to the approved not-to-exceed (NTE) limit. In portfolios running reactive maintenance, that distribution is rarely flat. Jobs cluster […]
