Annual Unit Inspections and checklists

Annual Unit Inspections

Annual inspections are important not only for safety reasons, but can be used to collect valuable information about your property.

It is easy to be unaware of minor everyday issues that can put us, our families and our neighbours at risk. Most of these risks can be prevented with regular visual checks and a bit of maintenance.

Taking the time to identify a problem in it’s early stages gives you the chance to take action and correct a minor problem before it grows into something more significant. By taking that preventative action you can help to save the time, stress and money you would otherwise spend. It could be the difference between hiring a contractor to secure a wall and hiring one to rebuild it entirely!

A key piece of your annual risk management plan is to perform inspections of the entire property as well as inside the units in order to help identify these risks.  Some co-ops with property managers  have built an annual unit inspection into their contract.  Others have maintenance staff to handle the inspections.  If you have property management, you might consider speaking to them about adding annual inspections to their contracts.

It is key that inspections of the property are done every year!