I started in maintenance. I have always done my own painting. I can roll an apartment out and cut it in, 800 to 1000 sq ft, in about 2 days. Most painters quote 2k to 4k to do it and want to book a month or more out. We farm out the cleaning and paint in house. that's the most efficient way. Everyone wants contractor skills on a burger flipping wage. That will cost you. Had a job interview once that told me I needed HVAC certs. I told them if I had those certs, I would be an HVAC tech making twice what they are offering. If you don't have at least one tech for every 75 units, your understaffed.

No, we don't. If we had a full time painter dedicated to it we could but normal staffing does not provide the manpower. Our apartments are also very large with vaulted ceilings on the top floor. It takes a professional crew of 3 all day in some of the units. I no longer allow spraying so it's all rolled and brushed.

00 units - yes we still do in house paints. We only contract out on skips / short notice units we can’t squeeze into the schedule.

Texas - I have 3 properties 44unit,144 unit & 77 unit. All less then 4 years old. I have a helper that isn’t EPA, CPO certified
I paint and do turns and of course w/o….I make sure the paint gets matched and paint with a Graco cordless sprayer and I love it.
 

I’ve been places that expected it snd places that didnt.
Seems like anytime companies want to make more money/save more money, it s as l ways falls on the most skilled and overworked people, maintenance .
Never understood why the office doesn’t pitch in. If they gave out handies at 40 bucks a pop and only did 10 a day that’s 12,000 a month…
We could all have really good painters and free up some bandwidth on the company computers since there would be less Temu and Amazon shopping time for them

Most all of your tax credits will.