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WerkOrder

Practical property maintenance for Kansas City commercial buildings. One useful issue a week, from the WerkOrder team.

How is the building doing?

Oct 15, 2026

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1 min read

How is the building doing?

Most owners answer from the last invoice. Here is what to look at instead.

John Pauley
John Pauley
The winter deadlines nobody puts on one calendar

Sep 30, 2026

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1 min read

The winter deadlines nobody puts on one calendar

Winter readiness is six deadlines from six places, and none of them wait for budget season

John Pauley
John Pauley
Where does a tenant request live after you read it?

Sep 24, 2026

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1 min read

Where does a tenant request live after you read it?

Tenants will keep emailing. The fix is what happens in the minutes after they do.

John Pauley
John Pauley
Building Health Score

Sep 17, 2026

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1 min read

Building Health Score

One rolling number answers "how is the building doing?" better than forty rows of closed tickets.

John Pauley
John Pauley
What is a work order?

Sep 9, 2026

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1 min read

What is a work order?

The difference between two-day closes and three follow-up calls lives in the fields.

John Pauley
John Pauley
Fall is when winter claims get decided

Sep 2, 2026

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1 min read

Fall is when winter claims get decided

The fall checklist for KC commercial buildings, and why the list is the easy part.

John Pauley
John Pauley