Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

You NEED to make sure you check your Renovations

22 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Christian Osgood explains why landlords must inspect every renovation before leasing. Unfinished paint, bugs in trim boards, and stray screws signal poor workmanship. Tenants notice these details first, so holding teams accountable for finish work and cleanup is essential to rental-ready units.

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This is why you need to walk through every single one of your renovations, make sure your team's doing what they're supposed to do. It's the little things, but they matter. Check this out. The doors, they just didn't finish painting. Does it look absolutely horrible? No, but that is not a high-quality finish. We're going around, we paid for this to be cleaned. All the trim boards were covered in bugs. There's screws on the floor. I think a lot of people would call this passable, which is sad because it's not. You want to provide great housing. It's the little things like finish painting, clean up after yourselves. That's all noticed when you go to lease the unit.