Insights
Practical guidance for people responsible for commercial property in South Florida. What actually fails, why, and what it costs to leave it.
A fair share of no-cooling calls turn out to be something the site could have settled in five minutes. The rest go considerably faster when the right information is ready before the phone rings.
The certificate of insurance is the piece of paper that decides whether your contractor gets through the loading dock. It is worth understanding before the morning of the job.
Storm damage to rooftop HVAC is rarely dramatic. It is water where water should not be, debris in a condenser, and a unit that runs for three more weeks before it stops.
Most kitchens keep a temperature log because somebody will ask to see it. Kept properly, it is also the earliest warning you will get that a compressor is in trouble.
Refrigeration almost never dies without warning. It declines over weeks, and every one of those weeks is a chance to fix something cheap instead of something expensive.
Every LED quote arrives with a payback figure on it. The number is only worth anything if it was calculated from your run hours and your electricity rate rather than from a brochure.
Most maintenance disputes are not disagreements about facts. They are disagreements that exist only because nobody wrote the facts down.
Almost every property has a maintenance schedule somewhere. The useful question is whether anyone has looked at it since the year it was written.
Most disputes over maintenance invoices are not about dishonesty. They are about an invoice that never explained what the money bought.
A grease trap is the cheapest piece of equipment in a commercial kitchen and the one most likely to close it for a day.
Broken storefront glass is two jobs on two different clocks. One of them has to happen today and the other should not be rushed.
The vendor comparison that matters is not the hourly rate. It is what happens on the third call, when the first two did not fix it.
Most landlord and tenant repair disputes are not really disagreements about the lease. They are disagreements about what actually failed.
Almost everything that goes wrong on a commercial roof during a storm was visible on the roof in May.
A kitchen exhaust hood removes thousands of cubic feet of air a minute. If nothing is deliberately putting that air back, the building will find its own way, and you will not like it.
Tell us the property and the problem, and we will come back with a window.
