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Notes from the maintenance desk.

Short, practical writing for property managers and coordinators.

How to triage a maintenance request in under 90 seconds

A six-lane framework for sorting an inbox of repairs without overthinking it.

What to send, when to send it, and what to never let a tenant chase you for.

Scope, photos, access notes, and the one paragraph every vendor reads first.

The structure of a one-page approval that keeps scope, cost, and consequences together.

Patterns by building, system, and vendor — and the preventive moves that work.

Repair Round structures non-portal maintenance communication before work-order creation. AppFolio connects by API; Yardi by SFTP file exchange.