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Scoring for Common Areas?
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:12 am
by a guest
When Common Areas have doors and windows deficiencies the scoring is for one building, if the
property has multiple common areas is it divided like buildings with the same deficiency?
Re: Scoring for Common Areas?
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:54 am
by Michael
Common Areas are not assigned to the property as a whole - Common Areas are considered part of the building where we find them.
Each building can have (or not have) Common Areas. Multiple common areas within one building score according to the charted values.
Scoring Common Area defects is one of the most complicated topics, but what happens is that Common Areas end up having a very significant effect when we have only one building that has lots of Common Areas and a negligible effect when we have many buildings with few Common Areas.
Example 1: We have a single senior high rise with many Common Areas so that Common Areas are worth around 13.5 and ONE fogged window in a Community Room ends up being worth 7 to 8 points.
Example 2: We have ten identical garden style buildings, and each has none of the major Common Areas like Kitchen, Community Room, etc. Instead, each building has only a Common Hallway, Mechanical Room, and Storage area – the Common Areas end up being worth maybe 4 points. That 4 points gets
divided between ten buildings, so each building has a total possible points loss of only 0.4. A fogged window in the Hallway cannot exceed 0.4 points, and will in fact be worth only about 0.2 points… barely significant.