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This may lead to shorter useful life and premature major replacements, with much higher costs. Capital improvement projects center around replacement of items that have reached or exceeded their useful life. They include projects like roof replace ment, asphalt milling and paving, and balcony or deck replacement. The cost and tentative replacement dates should correspond with your licensed engineer prepared reserve study. The reserve study is a much-needed tool used to forecast the replacement of your major building and grounds components and

“A good rule of thumb for traditional maintenance is one maintenance person...for every one-hundred units.”

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allows for the proper funding to be bud geted and collected accordingly. Proper staffing for a successful mainte nance program requires the evaluation of several items. The following items will help you determine the proper number of porter or maintenance staff needed to

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run your maintenance program: • Community size — acreage

• Number and type of buildings/units • Number of out buildings (club house, guard house, activity cen ters, maintenance building, etc.)

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