Access and scheduling
The make-ready board sets the model date. The new model apartment has to be painted, cleaned, and punched out by maintenance before a single piece goes in, and the old model has to be empty before it can be turned and rented. We book the carry between the final clean and the first tour.
Inside the community the route is the plan: the gate code or call box, the breezeway or elevator to the unit, where the box truck can park clear of resident spaces or the trash compactor, and which hours the community treats as quiet. Garden-style buildings often mean a second- or third-floor carry up an open stairway, which we walk ahead of time. Evening or weekend work can be booked when daytime tours make the office impossible to clear, and if the property asks for insurance paperwork we issue a certificate listing the owner or management company.

