Why can't the owner work in a property management company?

The common property management in China is usually the contract management system, which means that the daily maintenance personnel such as gardening, cleaning and security in the residential area are directly provided by the property company, that is to say, all the staff in the residential area are employees of the property company, and the property fees paid by the owners can also be called management fees, because this is really the fees paid to the property company. Property companies are self-financing. So you will often see thousands of employees of domestic property companies, and there is no way to pull out a group of teams just by security.

The advantage of the contract system is to reduce costs. Community service personnel are all property company's own people or their own subsidiaries, and the control cost is obvious. But there are many shortcomings. The first thing is that when the property company in the community is fired, it is not only the property company that is fired, but also the community staff such as security guards and cleaning workers, so you often see on the news that when the new property company enters, it is like a war like a historian, and the new and old management companies are confronted by their own security guards, and so on.

Another disadvantage is also obvious. The management company can only quote one price for several maintenance projects, that is, its own price, which is not comparable with the industry Committee. There will be a lot of black-box operations here.

As far as property companies are concerned, in fact, not all of them like the contract responsibility system, because owners only pay fixed property fees, and the government has clear restrictions on the fees charged by property companies. According to the quality of service, according to what level you belong to, under your management fee, you have to pay the wages of those employees. So in the case of limited funds, you can only try to reduce the fees, and in many cases, the direct result of low fees is to reduce the quality of service. Of course, the consequence of reducing the quality of service is usually to change the property management company. One of the conditions of bidding is usually to improve the service quality while maintaining the existing management fee standard, and then the new property management company will reduce the price, which is a vicious circle.