As with any other role that involves managing numerous different sections and elements of a business, the role of property manager for a commercial premises is a multi-faceted one, and you can often feel as if you are constantly fighting numerous proverbial fires rather than taking tangible and productive steps forward.
With that in mind, here for your information, are four fundamental elements of commercial property management which are often neglected.
1. Property Exterior
Often, commercial property owners and managers spend an inordinate amount of valuable time concentrating on the interior of the building, which of course is entirely necessary.
Conversely, however, the exterior of the property is often neglected, even though there is a wide plethora of safety issues and concerns associated with managing the outside of a commercial building. Such considerations include the following:
- Aesthetic appearance including painting and repairing broken signage
- Accessibility to and from the building (including proper provision for the physically disabled)
- Ensuring the areas outside of all fire doors are clear from debris and overgrown shrubbery
- Roofing inspections
- Inspections concerning the structural foundations of the building
2. Vertical Transportation Systems
Whether you only have one elevator within your building, or rather a series of elevators and escalators, a faulty vertical transportation system can cause serious injury to multiple tenants and in some cases may even result in fatalities.
By far the best way to ensure your elevators and escalators are in full working order and are entirely safe is to employ the services of professional, renowned, and respected elevator consulting services. Such companies will take away the stress and worry of maintaining such machinery and ensure your tenants and visitors are safe and secure when operating the systems.
3. Janitorial Services
Even before the outbreak of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, your responsibility to keep your property clean, safe, and functional has always been of uymost importance.
If your tenants are long-term residents, it may well be likely that they are responsible for keeping the building as clean as possible; for example if you lease your building to a theater company, they will likely have their own janitorial services which they pay for themselves.
Either way, you have a legal and moral obligation to uphold your side of the proverbial bargain and professional commercial cleaning services Miami should be on hand and employed regularly, especially when your building is closed.
4. Property Operation Manuals
It is the responsibility of every commercial premises manager to provide an updated and thoroughly comprehensive property operation manual to each successive tenant, and to neglect such a responsibility may result in costly financial reimbursements to said tenants or their associates.
Essentially, a property operation manual, often also referred to as a building owner’s manual, is essentially the proverbial bible for the tenants to refer to in virtually any eventuality and situation.
Your manual should contain everything from fire safety guidelines and evacuation routes to environmental risk management plans and security plans.
