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Transform your inspection process and improve quality standards with MRI Inspections Powered By HappyCo — a mobile, real-time operations solution that gives you the flexibility to inspect any unit, property or facility and integrates directly into MRI Residential Management.

This blog was originally published on HappyCo by Ben Chadwell, Marketing Manager

Are you still using pen-and-paper for inspections and documentation?

Relying on manual and paper-based methods for your Operations poses inherent problems — like poor visibility into property conditions and whether or not inspections have even been completed. You also might be contending with low property compliance, inefficient unit turn and missing or lost documentation when your residents dispute damage charges.

Even if you’re performing inspections regularly — your current workflow may be hindering your ability to manage risk, compliance, quality assurance and maintenance and safety. The more properties and units you manage using familiar but outmoded systems like pen-and-paper, the harder benchmarking, compliance, documentation, repair and maintenance become. Communication between property-level staff and your head office breaks down. This lack of visibility is acutely worrying as an asset owner or fee manager.

Problems with Paper

• Your data on paper is non-standardized
• Hours of labor are wasted trying to locate misfiled or incorrectly attributed photos to back up your damage charges
• Inability to instantly access inspections leaves you without critical documentation when you need it
• Poor portfolio visibility and inability to monitor critical trends in real time
• Response times to resident disputes for move-outs or other complaints can take days or even weeks

Onsite visibility without onsite visits

This is where mobile inspection tools shine. Switching from paper-based inspections to mobile inspection software allows you to collect consistent, high quality data on all of your assets to document unit and property conditions, quality and safety standards, staff performance and more. By moving to mobile, you’ll collect standardized data which means you can drive higher property compliance, efficient unit turn and instantly produce documentation when your residents dispute damage charges.

For your bottom line, that means higher cost recoveries at move-out, faster unit downtime, reduced labor and lower liability, among other advantages.

MRI Inspections Powered By HappyCo brings together one of the most innovative property management platforms — MRI Software — with HappyCo’s leading inspections solution for standardized operations. You can now experience the best real-time inspections solution without sacrificing the simplicity of a single platform.

Whether for move-in/move-out, property walks, annual unit inspections or common area and amenities checks, MRI Inspections empowers you to remotely manage your apartment communities everywhere with line-of-sight visibility to onsite operations — so you can drive improved turn and optimize property operations, resident satisfaction and NOI.

MRI Inspections Powered by HappyCo

• Capture 9% more damage charges on average
• Reduce resident disputes by an average of 50%
• Reduce labor hours by up to 60 minutes per inspection

How it Works

HappyCo’s user-friendly inspection solution can be initiated seamlessly from within the MRI Residential Management platform.

With MRI Inspections, your staff can perform Move-in/Move-out (MIMO) and transfer inspections from their mobile devices, eliminating the need for paper forms that easily get lost. When a move-out is scheduled in MRI Residential Management, a move-out inspection is automatically created in the HappyCo native mobile app and scheduled for your property personnel. Your community associate then walks the apartment and records inspection ratings for each room on their phone or tablet.

Because the mobile app offers online syncing and automatic backup, inspections can be performed without the additional expense of data plans. Your residents and staff can authorize inspections with a digital signature. When a move-in inspection has been rated and submitted, a move-out comparison report can be generated, showing the ratings from the move-in inspection versus the ratings from the newly created move-out inspection.

Staff can also edit the inspections with notes, to help residents better understand reports. Because photos and notes can be recorded from the HappyCo app, inspection disputes are mitigated before they even occur. Further, inspection data is available in real time, providing transparent access throughout all management levels. Best practice forms are available for inspecting common areas and preventative maintenance.

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There’s a long list of pressing property responsibilities you depend on your inspections to help you manage: ensuring safe common areas like playgrounds and pools, preventing fires and controlling pests, assuring quality living conditions for your residents, being prepared for severe weather events, protecting against lawsuits from negligence claims like slip-and-fall and raising the environmental sustainability & efficiency of your assets.

MRI Inspections Powered By HappyCo arms you with the information you need to drive better operations, get 360° corporate visibility, improve quality assurance, reduce risk and more with our integrated solution.

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