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How we run a turn program.

The trades in a unit turn are not hard. Doing them in batches, in the right order, with an inspection at the end, is where vacancy is actually recovered. This page is the method, not a claimed engagement.

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The property

Multifamily units returning to income.

Vacated units requiring cleanout, make ready and final detail before they could be shown and leased, alongside the common areas residents and prospects walk through on the way.

Bought unit by unit, a turn carries its own mobilization, its own scheduling call and its own quality argument. Ten units bought that way are ten procurements. The trades are identical each time and the overhead is paid ten times.

Run as a program, the same work carries one schedule, one standard and one acceptance process. That is the entire difference, and it is worth more than any per unit price negotiation.

The work

What a turn actually contains.

Make ready is a sequence of small scopes where the order matters more than any single task.

Cleanout and debris

Interior cleanout and removal of what the previous resident left, with the load hauled rather than staged on site.

Make ready detail

Kitchens, baths, appliances, cabinetry and fixtures brought to a showable condition.

Floors

Hard floors and finished surfaces cleaned last, after the work above them is complete.

Common areas

Breezeways, entries and shared surfaces cleaned on the same schedule, so a clean unit is not reached through a dirty building.

How it runs

Batched, sequenced, inspected.

The schedule is the product. These are the controls that make a batch of turns behave like one job.

  1. Batch the unitsUnits are grouped so a trade completes across several at once rather than mobilizing per unit.
  2. Sequence top downCleanout first, work above the floor next, finished surfaces last, so nothing finished gets walked over.
  3. Set the acceptance standardInspection criteria are agreed before work starts, so acceptance is not a negotiation at handover.
  4. Run common areas in parallelBreezeways and entries are cleaned alongside the units instead of as a separate purchase later.
  5. Inspect and recordEach unit is walked against the criteria and photographed, filed by unit with the invoice.

What you get back

Throughput, and a record per unit.

The result a manager can act on is throughput, not the condition of any single unit.

Units come back in batches against a single schedule, at one acceptance standard, with the common areas brought along rather than left to be noticed later by a prospect. Each unit carries a photographic record filed against it.

That record is what lets a turn be approved from a desk. An undocumented turn is a conversation. A documented one is an invoice you can sign.

Straight answers

What managers ask about turn programs.

What is the minimum number of units?

Batching starts paying immediately, but the model is built for volume. If you have a steady flow rather than a block, a standing program is usually the better structure.

Do you handle the exterior at the same time?

Yes, and it is the common miss. Breezeways, entries and walkways are what a prospect sees before the unit, and they are cheapest to clean while we are already on the property.

Who sets the acceptance standard?

You do, and we agree it in writing before work starts. That is what stops handover becoming an argument.

The work

Make ready, in sequence.

Cleanout first, work above the floor next, finished surfaces last.

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