How to Speak Maintenance - Tips For And From The Multifamily Industry
How to Speak Maintenance is a weekly series that focuses on why it's so important for everyone in the multifamily industry should learn to speak maintenance, how it can build relationships between office and maintenance teams and create a better experience for our residents. Join our host Jason Fein, National Maintenance Service Director with Camden. Jason and Becca Ramati, with the Texas Apartment Association Education Foundation (TAAEF) will have new topics and guests each episode. This podcast was originally a live video series also available on Facebook. It is a project of TAAEF who works to raises awareness of careers in the multifamily. There's room to grow in the Texas apartment industry. www.roomtogrowtx.org
Episodes
26 episodes since 2021
How to Speak Maintenance - Environmental Sustainability and Maintenance
On this episode of How to Speak Maintenance host Jason Fein with Dominium and TAA's Sarah Chezbro talk with Jake Reid, AMLI about how eco-friendly and sustainable maintenance practices can benefit both property owners and residents alike while ...
August 21, 2024
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33:46
How to Speak Maintenance - Resident Education
Join us for a new episode of How to Speak Maintenance discussing resident education and the top 5 things you wish your resident could do for themselves. Join Jason Fein an...
June 10, 2024
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23:28
How to Speak Maintenance -Technology for Maintenance and Training
Join Jason Fein, Dominium, and TAA's Becca Ramati for a new episode of How to Speak Maintenance. Today we'll be talking to Dominic Maddalena with Camden Property Trust and Dan Clapper, CPTD with Interplay Learning as we talk about technolog...
May 22, 2024
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21:40
How to Speak Maintenance: Stories from the Field Pt. 2
Join us as we share more stories from the field of how “speaking maintenance” can impact careers in meaningful ways. Join host, Jason Fein, Camden Property Trust, and TAA’s Becca Ramati and hear from our guests Jason Simpson and Dominic Maddale...
November 17, 2023
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Season 2
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29:19
How to Speak Maintenance - Apprenticeship Programs for Maintenance
Hear success stories from maintenance apprenticeship programs and why programs like these can be transformative for your company. Join host, Jason Fein, Camden Property Trust and TAA's Becca Ramati who will be joined by Coby Racine, a graduate ...
November 10, 2023
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23:08
How to Speak Maintenance - How Speaking Maintenance Can Benefit Your Career
On this episode of "How to Speak Maintenance" we’re sharing stories from the field of how “speaking maintenance” can impact careers in meaningful ways. Join host, Jason Fein, Camden Property Trust and TAA’s
September 29, 2023
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27:50
How to Speak Maintenance - Technology and the Service Field
On this episode of "How to Speak Maintenance", Jason Fein with Camden Property Trust and TAA’s Becca Ramati will be joined by Adrian C Danila CAPS, CAMT with RPM Living and TJaye Cupit Sanders, CAM, CAPS with Madera Residential to discuss how n...
August 10, 2023
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25:23
How to Speak Maintenance - Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork!
Join us for a new episode of How to Speak Maintenance. Today, host Jason Fein, Camden Property Trust and TAA's Becca Ramati will be joined by Floyd A Smith of The Dinerstein Companies and Audrey Kupovics with AMLI Residential to discuss the imp...
July 05, 2023
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Season 2
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24:06
Assessments and Hiring for Maintenance Positions
Join host Jason Fein with Camden, TAAEF's Becca Ramati and our special guest Sarahlee Reyna with Indio Management for a new episode of How to Speak Maintenance. Today, we'll be talking about hiring for maintenance, assessments and how to make t...
May 30, 2023
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21:53
How to Speak Maintenance - On-Call & Emergencies
In the rental housing industry are emergencies still considered “Fire, Flood or Blood” or have expectations changed? How does this affect being “on-call” for our maintenance and service teams? How can we rethink this pain point for our current ...
April 27, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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24:16
How to Speak Maintenance - Mechanical Asset Tracking
On this episode of How to Speak Maintenance we will be joined by Missy Saez with LDG Development LLC and Robert Hills with Camden as we discuss mechanical asset tracking and the importance of preventative maintenance. Like Robert said during th...
September 22, 2022
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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25:45
How to Speak Maintenance - What's a Mainten-ger?
Join us today for a new episode of "How to Speak Maintenance." Our host, Jason Fein with Camden and TAAEF's Becca Ramati talk with Michelle Bridges-Pahl with Century A/C Supply all about their "Mainten-ger" training, what it is and why it matte...
August 25, 2022
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Season 2
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20:42
How to Speak Maintenance - Pool School!
On this episode of "How to Speak Maintenance" host, Jason Fein with Camden, will be talking to our guest, Grant Almquist with Texas Apartment Pool ...
August 11, 2022
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Season 2
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19:34
How to Speak Maintenance - Hire, Engage and Retain Your Team
What an amazing episode of How to Speak Maintenance with Mark Cukro, President of Service Team Training. Mark shares so many important take aways with us about about hiring, training, speaking maintenance and more.
June 30, 2022
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30:44
How to Speak Maintenance - Technology Tips!
On this episode of "How to Speak Maintenance" we're talking about tips, tricks and technology to improve the day to day, communication and to help get things done! Join Jason Fein with Camden and TAAEF's Becca Ramati as they talk with special g...
May 12, 2022
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22:26
How to Speak Maintenance - Walking Your Property!
How to Speak Maintenance is back! Join Jason Fein and Becca Ramati and our special guests, Andrea ...
April 14, 2022
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21:06
How to Speak Maintenance - Bringing you new episodes soon!
Thank you for listening to "How to Speak Maintenance". We're going to take a short break as we prep for more great episodes! While you wait, check out past episodes or check out our other series, "Hints from HR" You can find it wherever yo...
February 21, 2022
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Season 1
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0:30
How to Speak Maintenance - Making training a priority - part 2
Want to know how you can make going on vacation much easier for you and your team? Making the time for training for your maintenance team is so important! Join Jason Fein, Becca Ramati and our special guests, Chelsea Odom, with Camden, and Russ...
January 27, 2022
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28:17
How to Speak Maintenance - Making training a priority!
TAAEF How to Speak MaintenanceWant to know the $500 Billion mistake companies are making in not making training a priority for the maintenance teams? Take a listen and learn the importance and tips to help make training happen!
January 20, 2022
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29:50
How to Speak Maintenance - Fire Safety
Join us for "How to Speak Maintenance" with host Jason Fein and TAAEF's Becca Ramati. In this episode we're talking about fire safety, that we're ready for winter and making sure that we're all thinking about preventative maintenance for our sp...
January 13, 2022
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31:09
How to Speak Maintenance - Holiday Break!
Thanks for taking the time to listen to How to Speak Maintenance! We're going to take a break for the rest of December and will be back in January.If you haven't already, check out our other podcast, "Hints from HR." We fe...
December 09, 2021
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0:23
How to Speak Maintenance - Getting Ready for the Holidays!
The holiday season is here! Join us as we talk about getting ready for the holiday season and why it’s the perfect time to learn to Speak Maintenance. Cayce Coon with Madera Residential will join Jason Fein and Becca Ramati to discuss what you ...
December 02, 2021
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25:24
How to Speak Maintenance - Getting rid of the whiteboard!
On this episode of "How to Speak Maintenance" we're talking about getting rid of the whiteboard but really it's about how how teams (both in the office and maintenance) are increasing productivity by utilizing technology! Thank you to Christy T...
November 18, 2021
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28:35
How to Speak Maintenance - Don't Skip the PM Work!
Being proactive instead of reactive when it comes to maintenance work can save you some major headaches, unhappy residents and after-hour calls. On this weeks episode of "How to Speak Maintenance" we'll be talking about the importance of preven...
November 11, 2021
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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28:08
How to Speak Maintenance - It's Getting Hot in here...AC season!
Summer in Texas is H-O-T! When A/C units across the state are being turned on they need more care than just flipping a switch. It may be cold now but what can we do today or before it is hot again to save time, money and being out in the heat f...
November 04, 2021
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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25:30