Welcome to the Absolute Field Notes
Welcome to the Absolute Integrated Solutions blog — our field notes from Central Ohio property maintenance, multifamily turns, residential remodels, and the operating-partner work that sits between them.
What you’ll find here
We write the guides we wish existed when we started. That means specific, Central-Ohio-grounded answers to the questions property managers, asset managers, and homeowners actually ask us in the field:
- Property maintenance playbooks — how to scope a true preventative program, what work-order triage looks like at 200+ units, what we put in the first 90 days with a new PM partner.
- Multifamily and SFR turn cost realities — what a 5-day turn actually costs, where 70% of cost overruns come from, and how an operating partner differs from a turn vendor.
- Homeowner remodel guidance — Columbus-area cost ranges, what permits really cost, how to read a contractor estimate, and what NOT to skip on a bathroom remodel.
- Before & after project breakdowns — real Central Ohio jobs, with timing, scope, and what we’d do differently.
Why this is here
Most contractor websites pretend their job is to sell. Ours treats you like an adult. You should be able to read a few articles, decide whether we think the way you want a partner to think, and reach out only if the answer is yes. If we save you a phone call by answering the question outright, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Have a question we should write about?
Send it over. Property maintenance partner questions, turn-cost questions, remodel cost questions, multifamily asset stabilization questions — we’d rather answer in writing once than answer in a sales call forty times. Submit a topic here.
