real estate South Coast Property Specialists (Carlene Franzen) Tips #1079:
More Covid Safe Plans in Place Who month Vol 16 thought Septembera 15th 2017ago that we would be in this position with 28 April December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018
Covid after the previous 18+ months of keeping it at bay? Regardless of how we got into this position of skyrocketing infections, hospitalisations and now deaths, the question we as a local business are addressing is “what are we doing about it?” The real estate business is an interesting one as we normally conduct our business in other people’s houses. Whether it be presenting to vendors and landlords why they should list their property with us or by showing prospective purchasers or tenants through the property we have listed we find ourselves in environments that we don’t have huge amount of control over, infection wise. As a local business the health of our staff and our customers, whether they be vendors, landlords, tenants, strata owners or contractors is of paramount importance. We have naturally already had our Covid safe plan in place since the start of the pandemic but with Omicron racing through the population extra steps have been needed to be put in place. For example, due to Omicron’s increased infection rate we need to make sure that if one of our sales staff were to contract it, then we need to ensure it doesn’t spread to the rest of the sales team. This would be “disastrous” as it would mean that we would not be able to help our vendors sell their properties. So, wherever possible, all our sales staff are working in different locations, for example they are not all in at the office at the same time and meetings between them are held on zoom so they keep each other updated with the status of new listings, offers and sales. Similarly in Strata, we have implemented new protocols surrounding the mandatory holding of annual general meetings for each complex. These are now all held electronically using zoom and we have been experimenting with new technologies to enable electronic voting by unit owners. We have made mask wearing mandatory in all locations except for physically being outside and providing that social distancing is occurring. All staff are provided with sanitiser and training on how to be Covid safe. We have even managed to order some rapid antigen tests so that will be another tool in our anti-Covid kitbag. So where to from here? Hopefully this wave will peak shortly but who knows if another variant will come along which may have different characteristics. Certainly the politicians were right when they said we need to “learn to live with Covid” as it doesn’t look like it is going away anytime soon. But rest assured, we are doing everything in our power to keep our little local business going in the safest way possible for our staff and anyone that we come in contact with.
beagle weekly : Vol 242 January 14th 2022
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