That’s an unusual way to work.How can they work to a budget?
All my gutter work is in the budget, most annually, some twice a year some once every 2 or 3 years but always budgeted for.
Huuuum we have some jobs that are done annually like gutter vaccing that is budgeted in but a lot are done as and when required I have no idear if the residents or the owners foot the bill and provided I get paid don’t care how it gets laid ???
I looked at working with one company down here that charge all contractors a % based on how much work they gave you.Like a legal back hander for the work they give you.
No idear , but that’s what happens the softwashing pictures I posted above I will be very surprised if we don’t get it and that’s many thousands of pounds of work That will be authorised by the owners and they must lay for it I assume ????!
I would tell them what they could do with there work wouldn’t be doing that .
The one I do a lot of work for in the Cambridge area charge a fee to manage the H&S aspect as you have to be an approved contractor. Usually a few hundred quid a year, totally immoral and probably illegal but PM work is so unregulated they can get away with it.
The residents pay a service charge of xxx per month for window cleaning and gardening , all the rest the building owners pay , that’s how anchortrust\ Hanover housing works .
If extra work comes up and they continue to give it only to you then put a percentage on and it’s going over budget to the point they need more funds that’s not fair tendering.
That's different type of Property Management, Anchor will own the buildings and the flats will be leasehold or rented from Anchor.
The management companies we work for ask us to quote for lots of different stuff we are approved contractors in a number of areas window, guttervaccing , softwashing , etc sometimes we get asked to vac gutters on a property we don’t clean the windows on beacause that cleaner doesn’t do that work , the softwashing pictures I put up is a point in case we don’t do the windows there but they want us to soft wash the buildings for them as we are an approved contractor to do that type of work . I have no idear how it all works we just give them a price and do the jobs ??? and best bit is getting paid ??
We do a lot of that type of set up
I don’t see that it has to be tendered work the building owners are free to have who they want to do the work for them it’s not public sector work .
I have no idear but we work for some very large management companies and have done so for 18 + years I assumed that was how they all worked ???
As I said your work isn't the "usual" PM type work yours are for the single property owner where usually there are multiple owners that are "managed" in a residential management company. You invoice each Anchor Site and they collect the service charges. Mine and @Cghwindowcleaning work is with the individual flat owners through the PM company whose job is to represent the owners and secure them the best deal they can by tendering the work. I believe for small amounts it doesn't need to go to tender but should always be put to the Residential Management Committee.
I think you do a lot for Hanover housing and similar companies.
That was how I was trying to explain it but You explained it better with less waffle.??
