As your property manager, TMN works to live up to our responsibilities of responsiveness to tenant calls and superior maintenance of the buildings. We provide the best service we can utilizing both our staff and outside resources. In the case of repeated ant infestations, cooperative efforts with our tenants are sometimes necessary in keeping the problem at bay. We have a few tips about keeping pests, especially ants, OUT!

Ants typically come into a home or office seeking shelter, but more importantly, food and water. Scout ants will determine whether your suite or home is a good place for their colony to live depending on what you have to offer. The best way to deter ants is to seal all your food in plastic, clean up crumbs after preparing or eating food, keep a lid on trash, and bag the overflow. If you collect soft drink containers for deposit return, rinse the containers first, keep in a sealed location, or remove them quickly.

TMN has responded to recent infestations with cleanup, bug spray, ant traps and a professional exterminator. Inspections report overflowing trash, open food containers on the counter, pizza boxes on the floor, and a large container of sticky empty pop cans. In some offices… this is what is attracting those critters. If you eliminate the great food and drink for the pests, you will make your office an uninviting place to visit.

Unfortunately, when called to treat problems like this, we are required to charge for the service call. Please help us in helping you to keep your office environment free of unwanted pests.

The full article can be read at the Town Courier online.

Jill Green, the former financial manager for Fahrenheit Creative Group, has been named the new property manager for TMN. With a bachelors in Communication and Theater from the University of Michigan, TMN has no doubt that Jill will be a fantastic, fun, and fresh addition to the team!

A Simple Maintenance Tip

Once a month, we will be checking in with you at your office. If small maintenance things come up throughout the month please just keep a simple list of them. That way when we stop in you won’t have to try to remember something that happened two weeks ago.

Heating and Cooling Check Up

During the Fall we inspect your heating and cooling system and prepare everything for the winter season. Please let us know if you have heating and cooling issues in advance of that visit so that we can address them when we arrive. Thanks.

Have you ever had an outage that required you to go home for the day?

That is one the things this blog was set up to help with. We will use this forum as a place to notify you when your power or utilities are turned back on. That way you won’t have to call the office repeatedly to find out when the power is coming back on. We will post any news right here for your review.