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Send me 12 months of your current PM's maintenance invoices. I'll go through them with a tradesman's eye and tell you exactly what I find — free, no obligation, no sales pitch.
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That's not a small feeling. It costs you money.
You trusted your property manager to handle it. You signed the agreement, handed over the keys, and got on with your life. That's how it's supposed to work.
But then the emails slow down. A tenant reports a leaking tap. You follow it up two weeks later and find out it still hasn't been fixed. By the time a plumber finally gets there, the damage under the vanity has spread to the subfloor — a $200 repair is now a $1,800 job.
Nobody called to warn you. Nobody flagged it as urgent. It just sat there, getting worse, while you were paying a management fee every single month for someone to be across exactly this.
Tenants report issues. Days pass. You follow up. More days pass. By the time a tradesman attends, a minor fix has become a major repair — and the invoice lands in your inbox with no explanation of why it took three weeks.
A dripping tap. A slow drain. A roof tile out of place. Any one of these, caught early, is a $150 job. Left alone for a season, it becomes water damage, mould, or a structural issue. The difference is whether your PM is actually watching — or just forwarding emails.
A bill for $640. No before-and-after photos. No explanation of what was wrong, what was done, or whether the price was reasonable. You pay it because you don't know what else to do — and because arguing feels harder than just moving on.
Property managers pass maintenance quotes straight through. They don't know what jobs cost — they've never picked up a tool. So the quote goes forward, the landlord pays it, and everyone moves on.
Emails get answered. Things get fixed eventually. But "fine" is covering up a slow bleed — overpriced repairs adding up month after month while nobody flags it.
There's no one — not the agent, not the tradesman, not the PM — who has any incentive to push back on a price. That's the gap I fill. And I fill it for free.
Send me 12 months of your property manager's maintenance invoices. I go through them line by line — not like a real estate agent, like a licensed plumber who's done this work. I'll tell you what's fair and what isn't.
Now I make sure landlords don't get taken for a ride by one.
Twenty years as a licensed plumber. I've been on the tools — residential, commercial, Western Sydney and surrounds. I know what a callout costs. I know what parts cost. I know how long a job takes. That's not something you learn in a real estate course.
I went and got my real estate licence because I kept seeing the same thing from the other side: landlords paying invoices nobody was actually checking. The PM didn't know better. The agent didn't care. And the tradesman quoted whatever the market allowed.
Trade Realty Group exists because Western Sydney landlords deserve someone in their corner who actually knows the difference between a fair quote and a rip-off — not just someone who forwards one.
Email me 12 months of maintenance invoices from your current property manager. PDFs, photos, forwarded emails — whatever you've got. No need to organise them first.
I review each one with a tradesman's eye — checking the job, the charge, the parts, and whether the price stacks up against what the work actually costs in the real world.
A written summary of what I found. What's fair, what's inflated, and by how much. No jargon, no spin. Yours to keep — use it however you want.
We know this patch because we've worked it for 20 years.
Trade Realty Group operates across the Western Suburbs of Sydney. If your investment property is out west and your current manager is somewhere in the CBD, that matters — they're not on the ground when things go wrong.
Being local means I know the market, I know the trades, and I know what work should cost in your specific area. That local knowledge is what makes the maintenance audit worth something.
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Email your invoices directly. I'll get back to you within 48 hours to arrange a time to talk through what I found. No obligation — if everything looks fair, I'll say so.
Email me your invoicesOr call direct: 0415 435 555