When to hire on-site maintenance?
Hello, I currently help manage a family owned small office building (~50 suites). We're trying to determine if we need an on-site maintenance guy or if we can get by outsourcing everything.

How do you all justify having a full-time on-site maintenance person? Anyone with an on-site guy that does full service leases?

I appreciate the insight and help. Thank you.
[{"id": "d0w45xc", "text": "How are you currently tracking your maintenance expenses?  Take these numbers and try to run a cost-benefit analysis. You should be able to show that an on-site person would keep your costs the same, or lower. Or if the costs are higher, do the higher costs offset the efforts of not outsourcing everything?   ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d0w4c2r", "text": "50 suites sounds like it would justify on-site maintenance staff, but more detail is needed. It comes down to a cost benefit analysis -- start with reviewing your vendor accounts who handle items that your on-site person would be responsible for. If on-site is more expensive, are there additional benefits to on-site you are not currently enjoying?\n\nHope that helps and good luck.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d0w5xy4", "text": "Does your janitorial company offer day porter service? Maybe a day porter could help with some routine maintenance stuff 2-3 days a week (blowing leaves, sweeping parking lot, changing lights, etc.)", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]