Your 30-day-out inspection countdown routine

Thirty days out is where scores are made: week one for building systems and site, week two for sampled-unit style walks, week three for parts and vendor work, week four for the final sweep and paperwork. That is one version — yours may be better. Post your countdown, day by day or week by week, and what you would never skip again.

However your countdown is built, the principle I will defend is order: systems and site first because vendors and weather control those timelines, units in the middle because the volume is yours to schedule, and the final week for verification only — not discovery. A countdown that is still finding new problems in the last week is a countdown that started too late. What does your last 30 days before an inspection actually look like — and what's the one step you'd never skip again?