Your building should earn more and be worth more.

These lessons teach you how, one week at a time.

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It's the framework behind the best-run buildings.

External variables: Residents, what they need; Codes & law, what's required; Lenders & insurers, and your next buyer; The market, rents, rates, demand; Climate, weather and hazards. These feed Your policy: what can't fail, what you can tolerate, how you'll manage it, what resources you'll allocate. People: residents, your team, vendors. 1 Know: Your building's record: what you own and what shape it's in. 2 Plan: What can't fail, and what to fix first. 3 Do: The work, on plan, a loop around Your building: Acquire, Operate, Maintain, Sell. 4 Prove: Review the results, report what was done. Review goes back to Your policy.
  1. List the outside forces that move your building.
  2. Use them to set your policy.
  3. Run that policy as a program, on a loop.

The lesson map follows one simple four-step loop.

Know
Plan
Do
Prove

A self-paced weekly program. We recommend following it in order.

1Know

Your building's record: what you own and what shape it's in.

  1. One Framework That Runs EverythingNov 5
  2. Build your asset register.Know your building.Lesson 1 · Nov 12
  3. Read your community.Know your residents.Lesson 2 · Nov 19
  4. Measure your team.Know who does the work.Lesson 3 · Nov 26
  5. Keep your building's records.Know your obligations and history.Lesson 4 · Dec 3

2Plan

What can't fail, and what to fix first.

  1. Name your risks.Plan for the building, the location and the people.Lesson 5 · Dec 10
  2. Set your service promises.Plan what you'll tolerate.Lesson 6 · Dec 17
  3. Decide what's protected.Plan how to protect it.Lesson 7 · Dec 24
  4. Sort your capex.Plan two buckets and your line.Lesson 8 · Dec 31
  5. What you've built so far.How it all fits together.Jan 7: recap issue

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3Do

The work, on plan.

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4Prove

Review the results, report what was done.

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