How much to pay a super for small condo building?

What is the monthly going rate for a super for a 4 unit condo building? The super has minimal duties ( taking out the trash, shoveling snow, cleaning the interior of the building). This is not a live in super and our current super usually just comes once or twice a week. Thank you.

Is he on call 24/7? Who do tenants contact during emergencies? If the guy has to unclog toilets or deal with firemen in the middle of the night it could bring the price higher.

He can't actually fix anything himself. When we had a plumbing emergency we did call him, bit he just gave us the name of some plumbers to call. He's more of a reference than a handyman.

I am going to go with no comment on this one.

He's a good guy and he does a good job, but he's asked for a raise ( double what we currently pay him) and we want to get a grasp for what the going rate is.

Is his name Walter?

No his name is Walter.

Does anyone have a cost or a range of costs per week/month that they pay a super who has minimal tasks given the small nature of this building?

Why not just take your garbage out yourself? Seriously, you are a 4 unit building and no one can drag some garbage pails to the street twice a week??

LongTimeSloper wrote: Why not just take your garbage out yourself? Seriously, you are a 4 unit building and no one can drag some garbage pails to the street twice a week??

:oops: :oops:

What's the going rate for paying people to not be retarded?

Damn I have to go with DR on this one.

You can pay a local kid to shovel for $20. Taking out the trash is way too easy to pay. Cleaning the indoors? Just pay once a month an hourly cleaning lady. Who has a super that doesn't live in the building? For that matter, just get some good contacts and do it yourself.

Weird.

Mama and DR: Hush up.

jbrooklyn, when can I start? I'd like 20k a year, I'll work the equilivant of 200 hours (4 hours a week for 50 weeks). I'll even do repairs.

...I've got the skills.

Can anybody do anything for themselves anymore. If you call the fire dept you, deal wth them. If it snows, shovel it. If the area around you apt is dirty, clean it. God, people are sooooo lazy around here.

hey, why_not, I was just coming here to say that for $200 per week, i will come by and spend 2 minutes taking your garbage cans out. Seriously, this is outrageous!

you want to give a 'super' who doesn't even fix things a raise? And, yeah, what mama said, pay someone $20 bucks to shovel and take your damned garbage out yourself!

On the other hand I live in a bigger building (about 60 units)

The live in super is not supposed to do any work in any of the coop units. His job is to take care of the trash, keep the floors and sidewalk clean, change light bulbs and make a phone call if there is a bigger problem. He does a no-so-good job at that. However the entire budget for maintenance which includes cleaning supplies is about 40K a year.

He does not have to pay rent and gets tons of side jobs, but the coop does not pay much for a super.

ringrunner wrote: On the other hand I live in a bigger building (about 60 units)

The live in super is not supposed to do any work in any of the coop units. His job is to take care of the trash, keep the floors and sidewalk clean, change light bulbs and make a phone call if there is a bigger problem. He does a no-so-good job at that. However the entire budget for maintenance which includes cleaning supplies is about 40K a year.

He does not have to pay rent and gets tons of side jobs, but the coop does not pay much for a super.

Well, fuck, fire him and I will do that job!

The going rate is about $20-$25 per hour. Make sure to give him a 1099 at the end of the year

Mamacita wrote: [quote=ringrunner]On the other hand I live in a bigger building (about 60 units)

The live in super is not supposed to do any work in any of the coop units. His job is to take care of the trash, keep the floors and sidewalk clean, change light bulbs and make a phone call if there is a bigger problem. He does a no-so-good job at that. However the entire budget for maintenance which includes cleaning supplies is about 40K a year.

He does not have to pay rent and gets tons of side jobs, but the coop does not pay much for a super.

Well, fuck, fire him and I will do that job!

We can't. We would have to evict him (and his family) and replace him with another Unionized employee.

we are an 8-unit building (only 5 apartments are owned). we have a guy that does garbage, changing bulbs in hallways, vacuums every few weeks. he gets $75 a week. if it snows, he gets $75 when he needs to shovel.

yes, we could do it. but since it took us 6 months to decide to buy garbage cans i'd rather give the responsibility to someone else--and he never, ever gets the dates wrong and our trash is pretty tidy.

LongTimeSloper wrote: hey, why_not, I was just coming here to say that for $200 per week, i will come by and spend 2 minutes taking your garbage cans out. Seriously, this is outrageous!

you want to give a 'super' who doesn't even fix things a raise? And, yeah, what mama said, pay someone $20 bucks to shovel and take your damned garbage out yourself!

Damn, I'm being underbid already.

Yea, you should be able to get 200 hours a year (50 weeks at 4 hours a week) for the bargain price of 5k ....about $25 an hour. That's 50%
off Longtimesloper's rate. ...but I'm no longer doing it (unless the recession get worse and I end up eating ramen)

BrooklynJack wrote: The going rate is about $20-$25 per hour. Make sure to give him a 1099 at the end of the year

20 to 25 an hour to take garbage out??? Wow-what a racket!

brooklynpotter wrote: we are an 8-unit building (only 5 apartments are owned). we have a guy that does garbage, changing bulbs in hallways, vacuums every few weeks. he gets $75 a week. if it snows, he gets $75 when he needs to shovel.

yes, we could do it. but since it took us 6 months to decide to buy garbage cans i'd rather give the responsibility to someone else--and he never, ever gets the dates wrong and our trash is pretty tidy.

$75 to shovel? Unreal, I paid a local man $25 to shovel (that is what he asked for) the last time it snowed. Damn, I am in the wrong business around here!

i think that's insane as well, and in the suburbs my mom pays @$100 for not a whole lot of shoveling. but that's what it costs and no kids are doing it.

as for the $75, i will say that it's for the entire storm, plus keeping ice melt stuff out there so nobody trips. which is still insane, but it's easier to have the mangement company deal with it than have us deal with it.

In my building I pay one of the tenants $120 per month to take out the garbage and clean the interior twice a month. Its a 6 family building. he is not responsible for snow removal

The super lives in the building so its easier for him. I would recommend offering $200 per month if he has to travel. if he comes twice a week he will spend about 30 minutes per visit or 1 hour per week. that comes out to $50 per hour.

Please!! Someone hire me to do this work!

One neighbor does the shoveling (except he was out of town the last storm, hence, paying the $25), one neighbor does the gardening, another 2 neighbors split cleaning the front yard, another takes the garbage out and changes lightbulbs and we all keep our floors clean. A couple of times per eyar, we hire a cleaning peson to do the entire building. it's not hard.

I'm italian! I am great with "cleaning" and "garbage disposal"
Give me the job!

....scabs! all of them. Hire me. I had my resume in first.

Back off why_not, I am gonna have to find you and kick your behind!

Is that Mrs. or Mr. LongTimeSloper threatening to kick Mr. Whynot's behind? If Mrs., may the rest of us watch? It sounds even more entertaining than cage fighting.

LOL! booklaw, you know if I am a Mrs. or a Mr.

yes, must watch.....