Building Maintenance Services Sydney for Real Estates, Stratas and Hotels

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Frank Cetinich, CEO, Westpoint Building Services – Building Maintenance Company Sydney for Real Estates, Stratas, Hotel, Commercial and Industrial Companies

Building Maintenance Services Sydney for Real Estates and Property Maintenance Services for Stratas, Hotels and Commercial Clients

Westpoint Building Services Pty Ltd excels in delivering all trade Building Maintenance Services and Property Maintenance Services to Real Estates and Stratas and Hotels, including Preparation For sale and Preparation To Rent (End Of Lease Repairs), electrical, plumbing, general repairs, and Preventative Maintenance, including reports.

WPBS Services uses industry software (ServiceM8), for our building services maintenance contract management to communicate and to book jobs with managers, and tradesmen. This facilitates easier liaison, communication, and scheduling with clients and all key stakeholders.

We are one of Sydney’s growing Building Maintenance Companies.


Building Maintenance Services and Repairs and the Life of Property Managers

As we build sustainable, ongoing relationships with the real estate and strata property managers, we hear common threads to the challenges you face in building maintenance:

  • Tradesman often don’t turn up, and reliability and dependability are at the top of significant issues for property managers
  • Lack of communication is frustrating when property managers need to give feedback information to key stakeholders
  • Property managers are time-poor and need easy, effective systems in place to deal with tradesmen; you need to know when the job is scheduled, that it was completed and completed to a high standard
  • Many tradesmen or ‘handymen‘ as they call themselves, do not have the necessary training, know-how, and experience and leave jobs in ill repair, resulting in multiple callbacks and ongoing frustrations
  • You need the job done right the first time
  • You need quotes promptly, and the work carried out at the earliest possible convenience
  • You need fast turnarounds on emergency jobs
  • You need to keep your landlords happy and their tenants content, and building maintenance repairs are crucial in this respect

We get it.  We don’t want you to have these experiences anymore!

Good news… you don’t have to!

Our Reputation and Commitment to a True Quality Service and A True Quality Job

How We Solve Your Pain Points and Make Your Life Easier with Property Maintenance and Repairs

  • We always turn up, and if we are delayed for any reason, we contact key stakeholders immediately with our maintenance management software
  • You deal with one person, our Director, Frank Cetinich, you will always know the status of your jobs
  • We will manage the whole maintenance and repair process for you, dealing with tenants and tradesmen, as required
  • We are highly skilled and have a team of licensed and insured tradesmen.   We use the best, reliable tradies and ensure they are a cultural fit for us and the customer.
  • The Director has vast experience in all aspects of maintenance and still does fieldwork on the tools.
  • We are rarely called back to a job; we do it once and do it right!
  • You will have quotes within 48 hours of scheduling
  • Once approved, you will always know what status the job is at, will be notified of job scheduling, progress, and completion
  • As we are a smaller company, we can respond quickly to emergency jobs and urgent jobs
  • We are not the cheapest building maintenance company, although our quotes often compete against the industry.  We can guarantee that the job will be done efficiently, to a high standard, reliably, on budget per quote, and on time
  • We are here for the long term. We are looking to build sustainable, ongoing relationships with Real Estate Property Managers, Strata Managers, and Hotel Facilities Managers

If you are a Hotel Operations Manager, please look at our dedicated Hotel Maintenance Sydney page here.

We also offer Commercial Property Maintenance in Sydney.

Building Maintenance Services Sydney

Our Director Frank Cetinich Explains Building Maintenance and Property Maintenance In His Own Words

Building Maintenance keeps all buildings to a certain standard.  If it is a house, this maintenance achieves the keeping of the house or apartment to a habitable, comfortable level, to health and safety standards so everyone is safe in terms of electrical, structural, etc.

The same applies to Commercial premises; people want to work in a safe environment and in a place where equipment is in entire working order.

As clients have a site used to an ever greater degree, the amount of work required and how often it is necessary to maintain that site is greater. People walk around more and work, statistically, there is more chance for something to be broken, damaged, worn out, etc.

When people don’t own something and work hard for it, they often don’t take care of it as much as they would something they own themselves.

Some people take care of the property but generally when there is a rental property the standard of care can be less.  This can be a factor influencing the frequency of building maintenance. It certainly contributes to the reason for it.

When we attend a job for building maintenance, we don’t just fix things ‘for now’. If the repair lasts as long as possible, THAT is our goal. We ensure those who work with and for me share this same goal and values.

Practically and in reality, for my own business, I am losing money if I go back to a job.

Any company will make you repair something at your own cost unless you have a valid reason to justify it is not related to the repair you have carried out and you have not contributed to another fault or issue.  And so they should.

Real Estate, Strata, Hotel, Commercial, and Industrial Property Managers who work for someone will often look for cheaper solutions. They have pressures against budget, are time-poor, and shoulder significant responsibility. Managers also often cast a wide net when looking for workers to do building maintenance for cheaper prices.

Either myself or my team members are usually called back in the next 2-3 months to fix jobs where someone was found to ‘do it cheap’.  This causes a nightmare for Property Managers, extended work hours with calls, emails, and coordinating with the original handyman to get them to go back to the job and attempt to fix the issue.

If a Property Manager has no satisfaction in resolving maintenance work quality issues, further canvassing for new workers is required, etc.  It becomes circular, time-consuming, and stressful.  Almost certainly the most for the Property Manager.

Ultimately, the landlord and tenant are the ones who are genuinely disadvantaged.

The landlord loses money and their profit margin on their property income and value, spending money AGAIN on repairs that should have been carried out by properly trained tradespeople who have studied and learned the proper ways to fix things instead of a handyman who has ‘picked things up’ here and there.

Often a new handyman or new tradesperson needs to be called because the original handyman cannot fix his or her poor work.

We help businesses upkeep their properties and help them maintain the best working conditions of properties possible.

We fix everyone else’s problems that they cannot repair themselves, and I also fix issues that people thought they could fix.

The team at Westpoint Building Services are an extremely professional and reliable building contractor whom I would highly recommend for all of your building maintenance requirements. Frank personally oversaw a team of scaffolders, painters, gyprockers, electricians and asbestos Removalists in the repair and maintenance of our Mosman building in a timely manner. A highly professional team that take pride in their work and deliver a high quality outcome, I would not hesitate in recommending Frank and the Westpoint team in the future.

Mark Harvey, Building Maintenance CLIENT FOR STRATA (GOOGLE REVIEW)


What Is The True Value These Days In Building Maintenance?

It is not fair for a worker to come back a second or even third or fourth time to fix the same thing and have the landlord and sometimes also the tenant pay for those repeat visits.

The attitude out there can be ‘it is working for now’ with the average handyman… ‘we will come back and fix it later‘… ‘She’ll be right!‘When it breaks down, we will just charge for it again and fix it.’

Most people just want the job done.

Managers don’t want the rigmarole of dealing with Fair Trading, waiting months for resolution; the process can drag on for 6-12 months to complete a resolution process.  

True value these days in Building Maintenance, we believe, is paying for a product that will last more than 6-12 months and does NOT need another fix in less than three months for a start.

Frank Cetinich, Director, WPBS Services

How Should Landlords Respond To A Request For Urgent Repairs?

I believe there should be a minimum amount of $500 earmarked across the board as practice for emergency jobs instead of needing approval when there is a health and safety risk to the tenants.

For example, there is no power in the house or electrical cables are exposed, or there are burst water pipes, etc.

By Law, the Residential Tenancy Act states tenants can act earlier instead of a Real Estate and engage someone to the value of $1,000; they pay for this work and are reimbursed.

Tenants may not necessarily choose the right worker to fix an emergency repair if they arrange things themselves.

Tenants do not have the knowledge or expertise to choose a genuinely qualified tradesman in many circumstances, and most people don’t use the Fair Trading website to check that insurance is authentic and current.

The False Economy of ‘Cheap‘ in Building Maintenance

If a tradesperson or Building Maintenance Company are on the tenant contact list for their rental, this is the best solution for all concerned.

Engaging a fully qualified tradesperson and a Building Maintenance Company avoids much pain and trouble in the long run. It makes life easier for everyone and maintains quality, safety and reliability with real estate property assets.

  • Constant, clear, ongoing communication and keeping Property Managers in the know is very important in Building Maintenance.
  • I am always asking for feedback and always open to suggestions and fair, critical appraisal. Without customer feedback, I don’t have an improved business model and quality assurance.
  • Feedback is also crucial to a business in business growth and development.
  • Feedback is also part of forging sustainable relationships and receiving ongoing work, which improves all facets of anyone’s business. No one does everything right all the time.
  • We are all humans and are all learning every day.  I am a lifelong learner and never want that to stop.
  • If you’re not learning, really you’re not living in my opinion.
  • Hence feedback is also crucial and necessary in business.
  • To be open to change for customers in business is very important to me as I am not perfect.
  • I am willing to change and learn to do something different if it helps them, makes life easier for them, and saves time, and conserves resources, saving spend, in business.

Frank Cetinich, Director, WPBS Services

Business is not difficult.  Business is Listening. Doing a good job. Turning up.

As Woody Allen says “showing up is 80% of life“.

Good business is communicating with people.

Meeting up with Managers, Landlords, and Property Investors, where possible, is our preferred mode of ongoing client management. In these days of Covid-19, video telepresence is also a great solution for remaining in true contact and cementing trust. There is nothing like speaking to someone in real-time. You cannot truly get to know a Property Manager across SMSs and Emails (or any customer for that matter where key stakeholder relationships are ongoing).

I make sure I meet and speak to my Property Manager clients. SMSes and Emails are important parts of client relationship, however are not the crucial part of the relationship to ensure ongoing trust, development, improvement and growth.

Face to face can never be replaced. Nothing beats it.

An authentic connection helps you know if someone is telling you the truth, who they truly are and what they truly need.