BLK 04 — Approach

Four verbs, repeated for decades.

Hold. Maintain. Reserve. Reinvest. The order matters, and so does doing all four every year.

Walk the block. One verb per building.

Scroll to walk

We buy to keep. A sale is the exception we plan for, never the plan itself. That frees us to make every decision on a thirty-year clock.

Roofs, façades, boilers and risers get attention before they ask for it. We walk every building on a regular rhythm and write down what we see.

Cash set aside in advance turns emergencies into line items. The reserve is sized for the bad year, not the average one.

What the buildings earn goes back into the buildings first: better systems, quieter stairs, brighter halls.

BLK 04.1 — What we don't do

BLK 04.2 — Reading a building

Choose a number on the drawing. This is how we read any building before we hold it, and how we keep reading it afterwards.

01 / 07

Water gets in at the edges, so that is where we start: flashing, coping, drains, the tank and its supports.

Look for — Pooling, patched patches, loose coping