HOA and property management
Tell us about your property and management workflow.
Send us the portfolio and the open items. We will scope compliance, cosmetic, and capital work into one schedule, one contract, and one invoice.
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HOA & Apartment Building Renovations
Apartment-building renovation
Portfolio-scale renovation that runs through your agent.
For HOA and management-company portfolios, the day-to-day client is the managing agent and decisions move fast. Perennial Empire bundles compliance, cosmetic, and capital scopes into a single mobilization, so scaffolding, hoist, and permit costs are priced once and ownership sees one construction narrative. We self-perform under all three labor regimes: open shop, prevailing wage, and union project labor agreements. The same in-house crew runs the work under whichever one your project requires.
- Unit turnovers from single units to portfolio rollouts
- Lobby, hallway, and amenity modernization
- DOB, HPD, FDNY, and OATH violation resolution
- Roof, boiler, elevator, and LL11/FISP capital work
Apartment-building scopes we handle
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Unit Turnovers
Flooring, paint, appliances, kitchen and bathroom fixtures, plumbing and electrical corrections, sized for single-unit turns through portfolio-scale rollouts. Same crews, different scale.
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Common-Area Modernization
Lobbies, hallways, elevator cabs, laundry rooms, package rooms, and amenity floors brought to current rental-market expectations. Phased so residents keep full use of the building.
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Compliance & Violation Resolution
DOB, HPD, FDNY, and OATH violations resolved with licensed expediter support. Quarterly violation-monitoring program available for HOAs that want proactive oversight between renovations.
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Capital & Envelope Work
Roof, facade, boiler, elevator modernization, and LL11/FISP repairs integrated into a single mobilization with cosmetic refreshes where timing permits. One rental period on the scaffolding, not two.
Built for professional managers
Reporting that drops straight into your reserve study.
Our estimating package and reporting templates are built to slot into the way professional managers already work. Capital items are surfaced against the reserve study, and weekly look-aheads, monthly requisitions, and close-out documentation arrive in the formats your team already uses.
- Single-mobilization bundling across scopes
- Violation-sweep scoping at estimate time
- Managing-agent reporting and requisitions
- Quarterly violation monitoring between projects
HOA and property-management workflow
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Single-Mobilization Bundling
Compliance, aesthetic, and capital scopes consolidated so scaffolding, hoist, and permit costs are priced once across the portfolio. Managing agents get one schedule, one contract, one invoice.
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Violation-Sweep Scoping
DOB, HPD, FDNY, and OATH violation pull-sheets produced at scoping. Corrective work priced into the base scope where cost-effective rather than carried as a surprise change order.
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Managing-Agent Reporting
Weekly look-aheads, monthly requisition packages, and close-out documentation delivered in the templates professional managers already use for reserve-study and capital-plan reconciliation.
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Reserve-Study Alignment
Capital items surfaced against the managing agent's reserve study so ownership sees a single construction narrative for the property, not four separate projects competing for the same budget window.
HOA and property management questions
How do HOA renovation projects differ from typical co-op or condo work in NYC?
HOA-governed apartment buildings in NYC usually come in two flavors: rental portfolios managed by a property-management company on behalf of an ownership group, and homeowners-association structures common in mixed-use developments and master-planned properties. In both cases the day-to-day client is the managing agent, not a shareholder or unit-owner board, and decisions move faster because governance is leaner. The construction is the same as co-op or condo work; the approval and reporting cadence is different.
Do you work with third-party property management companies on apartment buildings?
Yes. Property management companies are a primary client channel for this lane. We have run repeat engagements with portfolio managers overseeing dozens of buildings, including Beam Living (a Blackstone company). Our process, estimating package, and reporting templates are built to slot into the way professional managers already operate, not force them to learn a new contractor's workflow.
What scopes do HOAs typically bundle together?
The most common bundle is compliance plus aesthetics plus capital in a single mobilization: clear open DOB/HPD/FDNY violations, refresh the lobby and hallways, and roll in any capital items (roof, boiler, elevator modernization) already on the reserve study. Bundling saves mobilization costs, keeps scaffolding and hoist rentals to a single rental period, and lets the managing agent present a single construction narrative to ownership rather than four separate projects.
How do you handle HPD, DOB, and FDNY violations that surface during an HOA renovation?
Violation resolution is a core service and it often lives inside a larger renovation. We pull a DOB/HPD/FDNY/OATH violation pull-sheet at scoping, price corrective work into the base scope where it is cost-effective, and carry a licensed expediter to close violations at ECB/OATH. For HOAs that want ongoing oversight between renovations, we offer a quarterly violation-monitoring program so the managing agent is not surprised at the next annual meeting.
What reporting do you provide to an HOA's managing agent during construction?
Weekly: look-ahead schedule, photo-documented progress, and an open-items list (RFIs, submittals, pending approvals). Monthly: requisition package with schedule-of-values burn-down, change-order log, and safety summary. Close-out: O&M manuals, as-built drawings, warranty log, and a punch-list sign-off package ready for the managing agent's owner report. All of it fits the templates most professional managers already use for reserve-study and capital-plan reconciliation.