How to Repave an Apartment Parking Lot Without Disrupting Residents: The Resident-First Construction Playbook

The hardest part of an apartment parking lot paving project is not the paving. It is keeping 200 or 300 or500 residents housed, parked, and not calling the leasing office every hour for three weeks while thework happens. Property managers who have done this before know that. Property managers runningtheir…

Apartment Parking Lot Maintenance Schedule: A 20-Year Plan for Multifamily Owners and Asset Managers

If you operate apartment communities, your parking lots are some of the largest physical assets in theportfolio, and they last for two decades or more. Yet most multifamily reserve studies treat them as asingle line item, replaced every 15 or 20 years, with no year-by-year structure underneath. That workson a…

Apartment Parking Lot Resurfacing: When to Choose Mill-and-Overlay Over Sealcoat for Your Multifamily Property

If you manage an apartment community and your parking lot is somewhere between ten and fifteenyears old, you have probably had two contractors give you two completely different recommendations.One says “sealcoat.” The other says to resurface. The price difference between those two recommendationsis roughly an order of magnitude, and the…