Property managers hold a lot of responsibilities between handling the concerns of tenants, coordinating maintenance vendors, overseeing budgets, and keeping tenants happy. Given how stretched thin the role can be, building owners and property managers look to take operational burdens off their plate. One effective way is through outsourced laundry management.
When property managers partner with a laundry room provider, it’s an opportunity to update or enhance underutilized space and create a valuable amenity that keeps tenants happy without adding more responsibilities for the property managers.
At Automatic Industries, we help managers and building owners by renting out space, building out a laundry room, and managing it so property managers can focus on more important aspects of the building.
The Hidden Demands & Costs with Managing Your Laundry Facilities
A community laundry room may seem like a simple fixture to operate in your facility with little to no oversight needed. However, community laundry rooms require ongoing attention, and property managers may find themselves dealing with more responsibilities than they had originally anticipated.
These include:
- Dealing with equipment breakdowns and repairs
- Fielding tenant complaints about downed machines
- Managing service requests and coordinating vendors
- Upgrading equipment
- Dealing with payment issues
- Meeting utility and safety standards for the building
These issues can mount up and take away more time, forcing property managers to shift their focus solely on the laundry room than other areas that may require attention.
How Outsourced Laundry Management Helps
Outsourced laundry management services, like Automatic Industries, rents out space in your building and takes on the responsibility of designing the layout, installing the machine, handling laundry operations, and ensuring that the room and machines are maintained.
These services also conduct preventative maintenance, emergency repairs, handle tenant support and service, process payments, and provide continual upgrades, all at no extra cost.
Why Outsourced Laundry Management Saves You Time
Other than the steady income through renting out unused space in your building, outsourced laundry management services help save you time on maintenance-related issues.
When a machine breaks down, residents often contact the property manager, who then needs to coordinate with vendors and contractors, as well as track the service request and follow up on the issue until its resolved. When you partner with managed laundry services, the service request goes directly to them, so they can assign experienced techs to handle the issue and provide inspections to other machines.
Having a managed laundry service provider allows property managers to focus on core property management responsibilities without having to field tenant service requests or check on the upkeep of the space.
Partner with Automatic Industries Today
If you’re looking for the right partner to take over laundry responsibilities in your apartment building by building out the space, providing maintenance and service upon request, and receive a steady flow of income, you can look to us at Automatic Industries.
We can manage the space and handle the responsibilities and upkeep so you can focus on more important aspects of your building to ensure that tenant retention is high and that they are satisfied with their building and amenities?
Contact Automatic Industries today!