Archives: Journal
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What a facade tells you about the next five years
Before we take on a building we walk its perimeter and look up. The exterior is a fairly reliable public record of every decision made inside.
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Taking over a society from a builder-run committee
The handover is a document exercise long before it is a financial one. What to demand, in what order, and what to do when half of it does not exist.
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Sinking fund or special levy? Funding a big repair without a fight
Every major repair becomes a governance problem before it becomes a construction one. The funding route you choose decides how hard that conversation gets.
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How to read your monthly rent roll in ten minutes
Most owners read the collection total and stop. Four other lines on the same statement tell you far more about how the asset will perform next year.
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The pre-monsoon checklist we run on every building in June
Every leak we deal with in August was visible in May. Here is the walk we do on each building before the first heavy rain, and what we fix in what order.
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Water: the line item nobody budgets properly
Tanker dependency is treated as a summer surprise. It is usually a design assumption meeting a leak nobody has metered.
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The cheapest lift AMC is the most expensive one
A comprehensive contract costs roughly twice a non-comprehensive one. Over five years it is almost always the cheaper of the two. Here is the arithmetic.
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The ninety-day window: how we handle lease renewals
A renewal negotiated ninety days out is a conversation. The same renewal at thirty days is a concession. Nothing about the building changed in between.
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Fire compliance in Maharashtra: what actually gets checked
The annual fire certificate is the easy part. What separates a building that passes from one that gets a notice is usually housekeeping, not hardware.