Why Preventive Maintenance Is the Highest-ROI Decision You Can Make as a Des Moines Landlord

Most landlords think about maintenance the same way they think about the dentist: you go when something hurts. A tenant calls about a broken furnace in January. The water heater fails on a Friday night. The roof starts leaking the week after a heavy storm.

Reactive maintenance isn't just stressful — it's expensive. Emergency service calls, rush vendor rates, water damage that compounds because nobody caught the slow leak, HVAC replacement that could have been a tune-up. Every one of these costs more than it would have with a proactive approach.