Outsourced Routine Inspection Management for Real Estate Agencies

Each routine inspection is a short visit inside a long trail of admin. It takes time to book the diary, send the notice, write the report and chase the repairs. Your property manager could spend that time with owners and tenants. Routine inspections can earn a fee, but the admin around them can eat into it. A dedicated PMVA virtual assistant takes that admin trail off your team, inside your own software. Your property manager still attends each inspection and makes the decisions.

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Inspection Scheduling and Entry Notices

Your routine inspection calendar stays organised, month after month. Homes that sit near each other are grouped into the same run, so your property manager can see them in one trip. Entry notices go out on time, on the dates your team sets. Each one goes through your software with the notice your state requires, such as Form 9 in Queensland. Tenants get an SMS or email reminder before the day. Once your team sets the cycle, your assistant runs it as a standing task.

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Your property manager finishes the visit without extra time spent writing up the report. Before the routine inspection, they review the lease and the last report. On site, they record what they see in notes and photos. Your assistant turns those notes and photos into a report in your template, sorted room by room. Each repair your property manager recommends goes in with the timeline they set for it.

Notice and Frequency Rules Tracked Monthly

A routine inspection can fall overdue or get booked too early without anyone noticing. Each state and territory sets its own rules on notice and how often you can inspect. Your team records the limit that applies to each property. Software reminders help, but they do not replace a person checking the admin. Every month, your assistant checks each inspection date on your rent roll against those limits. Then they flag any that are due, overdue or booked too soon to your property manager.

Owner Reports and Maintenance Follow-Up

Owners get the routine inspection report once your property manager signs it off. Repairs do not get lost in a list of open work orders. Each repair raised becomes a work order in your software, and your assistant requests quotes from your approved trades. Your property manager or the owner approves any spend. Your assistant follows up open work orders every week until each one is closed.

Routine Inspections FAQs

How Often Can Routine Inspections Be Carried Out?

Around four a year in most states, but not everywhere. Victoria allows one every six months at most, and none in the first three months of the agreement, according to Consumer Affairs Victoria. Queensland’s rules, Tasmania’s Act and the NT rules set a three-month gap instead. A Queensland tenant can agree in writing to more frequent inspections. Tasmania also allows one in the first month. An NT agreement can set a longer gap. The NSW rules, WA rules and SA rules allow up to four a year. The ACT rules allow two a year, plus one in each of the first and last months of the tenancy.

Do PMVA Virtual Assistants Attend the Property?

No. Your property manager carries out the inspection and deals with everything on site. Our assistants are based in the Philippines. They handle the admin around the visit, inside your software. They do not show properties or give property advice. The on-site judgement and every compliance decision stay with your licensed team.

How Much Notice Must You Give Before an Inspection?

At least seven days in every state and territory except Tasmania, which needs at least 24 hours. Most states also require written notice, and Queensland uses the Form 9 entry notice. Western Australia caps notice at 14 days and South Australia at 28, so a notice can go out too early. Tasmania’s Act sets its 24 hours. We prepare each notice to the timing your team has set for that property. Our state-by-state guide has the full table.

Who Stays Responsible for Compliance?

Your agency. The duty to give proper notice and keep within the limits sits with your agency, under its licensee or principal (the title varies by state). We do not take that duty on. We make it easier to meet. Notices go out from your own software, so it holds the record of what was sent, when and how.

Which Property Management Software Do You Work In?

If your team uses PropertyMe, Property Tree or Rex, your assistant can work inside the same platform. That also applies to Console Cloud, legacy systems such as Console Gateway and REST Professional, as well as the inspection apps your agency already uses. In our records, each assistant completes more than 200 hours of property management training before they start. That happens in our own academy. You issue their logins and control their passwords. You decide what they can reach.

How Is Tenant Privacy Protected in Inspection Reports?

Your assistant works only in the systems you approve. You can change their access at any time. That matters, because inspection reports show the inside of a tenant’s home. Each assistant works from our office in the Philippines on one dedicated PC with its own IP address. Backup assistants use that same PC. Our office runs CCTV, download limits and two-factor authentication. Our real estate outsourcing page lists the privacy questions to ask any provider, including us.

What Happens When a Property Manager Leaves?

The inspection cycle stays with the property, not the person. We saw this with Sarah, Head of Property Management for a large Canberra agency. She says her inspections kept running as property managers came and went. Her case study adds that new team members “can focus on clients rather than auditing their portfolios.” If your assistant is on leave, a trained backup steps in. They work from the same written processes under our Zero Downtime Commitment.

How Do We Get Started?

It starts with a strategy session. From there, our Australian consultants map your inspection process with you, from the day a property falls due to the day the owner gets the report. You do not need to tidy your processes first. The map shows which steps need your property manager and which admin a dedicated assistant can take on. For the first six weeks, the consultants meet with you twice a week.

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