Is your entrance neat and welcoming with well landscaped signage projecting the property's IDEAL image to Residents and future Residents?
- Are your common "green" areas free of weeds, edged, fertilized and looking crisp and clean? We must always lead by example!!!!
- Do all of your buildings have a neat appearance with exposed wood painted, and windows washed? REMEMBER: If you expect this of your Residents, then as Owner/Manager you must set the standard...no one respects a hypocrite!!!!
- If your streets have speed bumps, are they freshly painted so they are not trip hazards?
- When was the last time your catch-basins were cleaned of debris?
- If your MHC is on a private septic system, how current is your pumping schedule and have YOU physically inspected each tank and field for possible shed, fence,
- deck or landscape encroachments?
- Have you reviewed your vacant space inventory and matched it with available
- homes on various web sites/local realtors multiple listing sites/Craig's lists etc? Have you made an offer on any homes and have you contacted any movers to get bids on hauling/setting the home at/to your MHC?
- Is your MHC's business Information Center (aka "Office") the jewel in your crown as a neat, clean and available place to conduct business according to posted hours for Residents?
- Have you or your attorney reviewed lease files space by space to be assured that each Resident's documents are current with legislative and/or "case law" changes?
This very abbreviated list only begins to scratch the surface of what you must do to conquer all the obstacles that stand in your way of being exemplary MHC administrators. Let us be fierce in the desire and follow-through to make MHCs the best they can be for our Residents. In so doing they will provide security for our families' future income!
Joel Erlitz, President
First Commercial Property Corp.
Jserlitz@aol.com
206-985-7275(PARK)
