Planning inspections, done well
Practical guides on the geography of property management — routing an inspection day, mapping a growing portfolio, and keeping quality up as you add doors. Written by people who did this by spreadsheet first.
Inspection Planning
The Annual Rental Inspection SOP
The full routine inspection procedure: cadence, notice to enter, the walkthrough, the route, occupied doors, the owner report, and closing the loop.
7 min readThe Part of Inspection Planning Nobody Schedules For: Occupied Units
Occupied inspections run on the tenant's clock. Split them from vacant doors, batch the notices, and plan two routes instead of one.
7 min readThe Rental Inspection Checklist That Doesn't Miss the Expensive Stuff
A room-by-room rental inspection checklist that ends with the safety block: detectors, GFCI outlets, the water heater, the under-sink cabinet.
6 min readHow Often Should Rental Properties Be Inspected?
A tiered inspection cadence, the state entry laws that cap it, and the arithmetic for whether one person can actually run it.
7 min readInspection Planning: How to Plan an Inspection Day Across a Rental Portfolio
A step-by-step method for planning an inspection day: export your doors, flag what is overdue, plot it on a map, and sequence 8-12 properties per route.
7 min readInspection Apps Schedule When. They Don't Plan Where.
Inspection software sets due dates and captures findings. None of it maps your portfolio or orders the stops. Here is how to plan the day anyway.
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