Topic: Ideas for Maintenance Appreciation

Maintenance Appreciation ideas and go......

Happy hour, Home Depot/Lowe’s gift card. Complete “x” amount of workorders in a week and take 1/2 day on Friday. Paid by the company

Flash lights , cordless drills, dinner gift cards, etc.... get to know your maintenance staff and they’ll tell you what they will enjoy or use!

I agree the paid time off will be appreciated as well.

Get them a 5 and 1 from Home depot.

We offer gas cards for those that have to commute!

A good cup like yeti or similar that will hold ice water and keep it cool for summer!

A gift card to maintenance store of their choosing so they can get drill or tools of their choice. Given after a nice lunch

Have a BBQ for them!

And have the office staff do the cooking!

Car wash gift certificates. Yeti type cups with initials engraved

Top golf for whole team

Each summer we get them water bottles and put cooling towels, $$$, and goodies in them and each Maintenace person gets one

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Have a Breakfast Appreciation event for maintenance. Maybe on a Friday.

21 years on the industry and I’ve never experienced that, meaning a specific appreciation day

We did a lunch and asked residents for their testimonials.we also awarded a golden wrench, golden hammer, golden duck tape, and of course the golden fork! They truly enjoyed it.

A day off!

We did a pool luau party before the pool opened for the season and all the leasing chipped in on gifts and made the food.

Keep a stock of cold Gatorade and water for them during the warmer months! It goes a long way and they’ll truly appreciate it. Offer to buy their lunch on a day when they are super busy. Schedule a night out with them and their families, maybe a baseball game or bowling challenge.

Beer and hookers

Tequila and tacos! At least that’s what I would want.

Not doing maintenance.

Last year the company bought yeti type beverage cups and they were for maintenance only, big hit with the techs.

We are creating a brag board for maintenance team so that what our residents post on our sites is printed out and put in the board! One small thing we do

Something every day! Monday: Popsicles and ice cream. Tuesday: breakfast(take them somewhere for the first two hours of the day). Wednesday: have everyone on the team write letters to each maintenance saying why they are appreciated and give to them at team huddle. Thursday: potluck lunch provided by the office staff(or Order in, depends on budget) and Friday 1/2 day-team outing. Bowling or top golf.

I just bought my guys huge insulated water jugs and 8 cases of Gatorade

Top Golf

Casino theme party with casino tables

We had a masseuse come and give chair massages. They loved it!

Cook them breakfast.

No greater appreciation than from residents and they are publically acknowledged. When I would get a compliment from a resident I would ask the manager to set up a time when they could present a balloon and thank you card (provided by the site) along with a gift card (doesn't have to be big) from the resident as a surprise. I would try and attend and of course there were photo ops to use on electronic media including the site newsletter. Our service people are so critical to the bottom line and success of a team. If you tbink about it, leasing is easy. Keeping them, now that's the measure of success.

Tailgate lunch and a pro ballgame!

Save the time and weird ideas - buy them a gift card with the money you’d be wasting and give them each a nice card with something honest and meaningful written inside.
No man (that I know) wants to drive around a golf cart covered in crazy decorations, they don’t want to be forced to sit and eat breakfast with you at the office and finish to cram 2 hours of lost time into their day of work... give them some extra

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Jessica Sloan did an amazing WOW fridge for her techs with contributions from us vendors. She's tagged may share photos.

Cash. Amazon gift card. Free lunch.

I used to have maintenance appreciation week. One of the days I decorated the shop. Bought colorful comment bursts and taped them all over the shop. Sayings such as: “we appreciate you”. “You’re doing a great job”. “Our maintenance team is #1”, and so on. They liked them so much they never took them down. Each day was a special treat. Breakfast one day. Lunch another. One of the days i surprised them with a small cooler and filled it with snacks and drinks and placed it in their shop with balloons attached to it. At the end of “their”week I rented a movie I knew they liked. I asked them to go to the clubhouse. Closed it off just for them. When they got there I had it decorated, had pizza, popcorn and drinks for them and had them sit back and relax and watch the movie. They loved it.

Cupcakes or Take or buy them lunch - $5 starbucks gift cards.

Reach out to vendors and have them donate food or gift cards

Listen to them for once

We are a tiny property. Just me as Property Manager/Leasing Agent and the Part time Maintenance Man. I know that he can't afford to replace tools. On the anniversary of his employment and his birthday, the owners will pay for a new tool. Especially since the company doesn't own tools. Our company makes the employees use their own tools.

Our company is the same. I am the only onsite office personnel and maintenance and we have an onsite maintenance man ... we make them use their own tools and have none for the property.

If you have a superstar opportunity send a letter with a gift card to his/her family telling them the awesome job done and to take their husband, father, spousal equvilent out for a treat or dinner.

A bonus if they are doing a great job...everyone loves money! But if that isn’t possible, then baked goods! Maybe cookies in the shape of tools, cupcakes or donuts!