Know your why.
Why Choose Crown Maintenance?
If you’re a property owner or manager, you may be familiar with the following scenario: One day you arrive at your property to find the parking lot strewn with litter, or the windows caked with dust, or the sidewalks spotted with grime, or the grass and trees overgrown. Justly upset with the property’s condition and beholden to angry tenants, you phone or email the parking lot sweeper, pressure washer, window cleaner, landscaper, and day porter, and wait for each of them to reply. And wait…and wait. When you do receive replies, they may fail to explain why these problems occurred in the first place or how they can be prevented. In the meantime, you are continuing to write checks to all these providers while trying to explain their failures to the tenants or to the property owner. If this sounds familiar to you, you’ve come to the right place:
Crown Maintenance was founded in 1971,
with the express purpose of preventing scenarios like these. How? The answer is laughably simple: by paying the service providers the dues they deserve.
To explain this, a little context is necessary:
In the past five decades, individual maintenance providers—parking lot sweepers, pressure washers, landscapers, etc.—have fused into single, comprehensive maintenance contractors that provide all a property’s needs. This situation can be a win-win for property managers and property maintenance contractors alike: on the one hand, it allows managers to deal with just one source for all their service needs, and on the other, it allows contractors to expand their service offerings and geographic range without the need for large capital expenditures or long travel distances. But there’s just one problem: property maintenance contractors often pocket a big cut of gross revenues for themselves, leaving little for the people that are actually working on your property!
How much are we talking? While most property maintenance contractors pay their workers anywhere from 40% to 60% of gross revenues, Crown Maintenance pays an average of 90% to their workers. This means that the sweepers, pressure washers, and other workers on your property are the best compensated in the business, and therefore motivated to make your property shine. This business model is a win for everyone: property owners and managers are satisfied with the services; workers are happy to make good money and let Crown handle everything so they can focus on their work; and Crown can concentrate its resources on what it does best: keeping customers happy. And that’s what we’ve been doing for 50 years.
Plus, there are other reasons why Crown has retained its customers for so long:
Prompt communication: the #1 remark we hear from customers is “thank you for your quick reply.” We pride ourselves on answering emails and phone calls faster than anyone in the business
Family-owned and operated: Where other firms are focused on growth at all costs, Crown has deliberately kept its overhead low and its growth slow, so that we can expand our business while keeping our customers happier than ever
Tech-savvy: With Crown, you can expect time-stamped photos, electronic billing, digital insurance compliance, and all the benefits of the latest technologies. No inefficiencies here!
Free inspections and consultations: Because we are on your site all the time, we can provide free inspections of problems like graffiti, vandalism, dumped items, slip-and-fall hazards, or one-time cleanups and offer you a free bid on the spot. Plus, you only have to deal with one person, not 5 people providing 5 different services!
Flexible scheduling and adaptable equipment allow us to customize our services to your needs, whether you manage an industrial site, a business park, a shopping mall, or a residential property.
Why Pay For Property Maintenance?
As the saying goes, “You only have one chance to make a first impression.” Show your customers and visitors that you appreciate them with a clean and beautiful site. A simple lot sweeping or pressure washing may be all your property needs to attract more customers and increase your tenants' revenues.
Employees, visitors, and other personnel tend to adapt to their environments. A well-maintained property encourages them to keep habits of cleanliness and organization.
Reduce your legal exposure from slip-and-fall and similar claims by continually eliminating safety hazards. Dumped items, oil stains, and even small debris could be the difference between tenants' safety and serious injury.
Prolong the life of your asphalt by continual removal of sand, gravel, and other debris. These items are churned into the surface by passing cars, which results in damage and shortened life. Furthermore, hiring broom sweepers can be costly and time-consuming; in this case, regular property sweeping is key.
Reduce landscaping costs by repairing irrigation, removing trees, and cleaning gutters before these issues cause longer-term and more expensive harm.
Control your storm drain-runoff to limit environmental damages and expenses. Regular sweeping, power washing, and inspections are critical when looking to avoid hefty fines.
Lengthen the life of your property’s surfaces—whether its facades, windows, concrete walkways, or flower beds—with routine maintenance. We understand that maintenance costs can be high, which is why we’ve minimized our profit margins and designed maintenance regimens that will lower your costs in the long term.
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