Christian Osgood tours a Texas 55+ community during a major storm and finds one tenant's unit completely washed away. He shows pooling water, side-wall leaks, and working drainage solutions, arguing property managers must inspect during bad weather to catch problems before they become expensive.
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One of our tenants has been washed away. We're here checking out the rain damage at our property. We're in the middle of a major storm. Look at the flooding out in that field there. All the water from our campus just flows out there. Actually pretty good stuff, but on a 55+ community, you want to go ahead and do the walk around, make sure that everyone's safe, the drains are working correctly. The last thing you want is actually to have one of your senior citizens wash away in a storm. In Texas, your properties can flood. Check this out, we have water pouring out of the sides of buildings. You don't want it pooling like this. This is something that we want to grade for. But overall, this is what good drainage looks like. We have this trough, all the water is being siphoned in and carried away to an open field. You want to check these things on a rainy day. I think a lot of investors will look at their properties, they'll go, oh no, everything's fine, this is good, on a beautiful sunny day. You need to get out here in the worst of the worst of it, go ahead and get wet, get with the property, and find the little problems like this. That's a fixable, easy stuff. We call this management by walking around. Do it.