Turn Maintenance Technician – Columbia, SC – $25-26/hr + Quarterly Bonus

About the role

American Avenue Property Management (AA) is a boutique real estate fund focused on managing affordable, single-family rentals across the U.S. We aim to provide residents with the best rental experience through innovative, software-driven operations that manage and improve homes in multiple markets simultaneously. We strive to create safe, comfortable, and quality living environments for our residents.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, repair, and maintain properties to ensure tenant satisfaction.
• Proactively identify and address issues to set a standard for our relationships with tenants.
• Perform general maintenance and repairs, with a focus on property turnovers.
• Handle minor pre-renovation repairs, utility inspections, and basic troubleshooting.
• Manage move-in/out meetings and property turnovers.
• Maintain and document property conditions using handheld technology.
• Ability to perform light renovations ("turning" homes).

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on residential maintenance experience (including painting, cleaning, carpentry).
• Your own truck or van and hand tools (tool reimbursement and mileage compensation).
• Valid driver's license; live within a reasonable distance of the city.
• Background check.
• Experience with crawlspaces, slab houses, and lifting 50 lbs.
• Big plus: HVAC, electric, and plumbing experience.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills.
• Proactive and reliable individual.
• Ready to make a real impact on residents' lives.

Skills

• General Carpentry (painting, cleaning, laying LVP, sheetrock, drywall, etc.).
• Trades (HVAC, electrical, plumbing) preferred but not required.
• Ability to "turn" homes (repairing/light renovation).

Benefits

• Dental coverage for you and your dependents (100%).
• Healthcare coverage starting at 90% for you and 100% for your dependents from year two.
• Quarterly performance bonus tied to your work performance.
• Tool reimbursement of $200 per year.
• 2 weeks paid time off to start, increasing annually to 3 weeks.
• Top of the pay range for EPA Universal + strong plumbing crossover.

Pay

$25-26/hr guaranteed, with a $0.76/mile vehicle/gas reimbursement. Additional bonuses based on performance.

Schedule

40 hours/week, with additional compensation for work orders that run short.