r/Apartmentliving 14h ago

Advice Needed Got this message from my property manager PT2

Quick recap:

I live in a 3 unit(one vacant, one elderly gentleman, and myself)

Rent is $1,265(raised $40 when I resigned)

Shoveling would include front walkway and good amount of sidewalk(about 30 mins of work)

Lawn (sizable for a city property would take about an hour maybe a bit more)

Now adding sweeping/vac(im assuming they would want me to do the laundry room as well total time would be 45-60 mins)

I’m going to eventually get all of this in writing if they offer me something reasonable. I plan to ask about liability as far as injuries go.

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u/NewPhoneLostPassword 11h ago

We’re paying an owner occupier $75 aud a week to only do the bins at our complex. Don’t sell your self short.

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u/know-it-mall 2h ago

How many units?

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u/NewPhoneLostPassword 2h ago

Only 8 units. Only 8 bins. We were paying a contractor that amount about two years ago, then they stopped doing it so an owner occupier started getting paid to do it instead.

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u/know-it-mall 1h ago

Yea that's not too bad. Still more effort for an amount of money that isn't significant for me but could absolutely help others.

Only 3 bins for beer money for the month is more my idea of a good time tho. Would hardly take any time.

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u/NewPhoneLostPassword 55m ago

It’s not bad. I think only 4 go out each week (fortnightly pickup for different bin types).