Physical Strain and Fatigue

 Number two, physical strain and fatigue. You know, I don't know how many times you can climb stairs, uh, in your day, climb a ladder in your day, get on your hands and knees, up and down, crawling into cabinets, crawling under apartment buildings to resecure duct work, or to pull animals out from under crawl space.

Or to look at sewage pipes and crawl spaces, but it's very physically demanding job, constant movement. Multifamily maintenance requires frequent walking across properties, climbing stairs, and working in confined spaces leading to physical exhaustion. Yes, we sign up for it. Yes, when we are presented a job offer, we look it over.

We're compensated for the work that we're gonna do. We sign our name on it, right, and we say we're gonna do this job for that compensation. I'm agreeing to do the work. I'm agreeing to climb the stairs. I'm agreeing to climb under the buildings. I'm agreeing to crawl into cabinets to find water leaks. I'm agreeing to be up to my shoulders in a ceiling preparing.

Boots on tubs or vent stacks or whatever. I'm agreeing to do that work, but that doesn't mean that it's not exhausting. So there's a difference between knowing what you signed up for and then doing it repetitively all the time. It does take its toll. Uh, so there's the constant movement. There's also the diversity of the tasks.

You have to think about the knowledge. That these maintenance individuals, maintenance workers, need to have plumbing, electrical, HVAC, carpentry pool, roofing appliances. I'm sure I've forgotten several. Um, some, some properties may require their maintenance teams to turn their own apartments, so that could include painting, that could include carpet cleaning, that could include flooring replacement.

That could include doing your own renovations. There are a lot of things that we are expected to know and um, that can create some physical strain and some fatigue.