Managing buildings means the electrical problems find you at the worst possible moment, usually on a Friday afternoon when three other things are already going wrong. Craig Faria Electrician has provided property management electrical maintenance in Taunton, MA, and nearby areas since 1996, working with management companies and owners who would rather schedule this work than react to it. Having one crew that knows your buildings takes a meaningful amount of noise out of the week.
Craig Faria Electrician maintains a shop in Taunton, MA, and serves property owners in Bristol and Plymouth counties. Our crew provides property management electrical maintenance for apartment complexes, condominium communities, multi-unit residential buildings, and the management companies responsible for them, covering scheduled inspections, panel and breaker checks, common-area and exterior lighting service, receptacle and device repairs, emergency response, tenant-reported troubleshooting, and documentation for owners and insurers. The company dates to 1996, and we belong to the Massachusetts Electrical Contractors Association.
It starts as a handful of small tickets. An outlet in 2C stopped working, a hallway fixture flickers, a breaker in the basement panel trips whenever the laundry runs. Each one gets handled individually by whoever's available, and none of it lands anywhere useful.
The cause is the absence of a system rather than any single failure. Reactive repairs address symptoms without anyone connecting the dots between them, so the same overloaded circuit generates tickets for years. Meanwhile the things nobody sees keep degrading, because loose terminations in a house panel and corroded connections in an exterior fixture don't announce themselves until they fail. Buildings that change management companies lose whatever history existed, and the next team starts from zero.
Getting ahead of it means putting the property on a schedule. Our crew inspects the house and unit panels, checks terminations and breaker condition, tests GFCI and AFCI devices, surveys common-area and exterior lighting, reviews emergency lighting, and looks over the exterior service and metering. Everything gets documented with locations and photos, along with a prioritized list separating what needs attention now from what can wait for the next budget cycle. Repairs get handled during the same visit whenever the scope allows.
What changes is the rhythm of the work. Emergency calls thin out because failures are getting caught early, tenant complaints drop because problems get fixed before they escalate, and you gain a written record showing owners and insurers that the property is being maintained. Managers on a regular schedule tell us the biggest relief is simply knowing what condition their buildings are in.
Maintenance programs live or die on whether they make the job easier, so here's what ours actually changes.
Regular inspections turn electrical work into a planned expense with a predictable rhythm. Emergency repairs cost more and always arrive at inconvenient moments. Buildings on a schedule generate far fewer of them.
Reports with photos, locations, findings, and recommended corrections give you something concrete for a board meeting or an insurance review. That record also transfers cleanly if the property changes hands or management. Nobody has to reconstruct history from memory.
Dead outlets, flickering lights, and tripping breakers come in constantly, and each one is somebody's daily annoyance. Fast turnaround on those tickets protects renewals more than most managers realize. We can take them directly so your staff isn't stuck relaying details.
Not everything found during an inspection needs immediate attention, and pretending otherwise wastes money. Findings come back sorted into what's urgent, what belongs in this year's plan, and what to simply monitor. That lets you spend where it counts.
Power failures and unsafe conditions in occupied buildings can't wait for a scheduled visit. Our crew responds to urgent calls at your properties whenever they come up. Everything we repair carries a one-year workmanship warranty.
Inspections have a way of surfacing projects that go beyond routine repair.
Maintenance visits regularly turn up units needing more than a repair. Multifamily unit renovations and rewiring handles full and partial rewires, kitchen and bath circuits, and the panel work turnovers often require.
Shared spaces generate a steady share of maintenance tickets, and upgrading them removes the recurring ones. Common-area lighting and electrical upgrades cover corridors, stairwells, parking areas, and emergency lighting throughout the property.
Our complete multifamily electrical services include service upgrades, generator installation, and larger projects across whole buildings. Management companies in the region use us for routine maintenance and capital work alike.
The value of a maintenance contractor shows up most on the days when something has gone wrong.
A crew that already knows where your panels sit and how the building is wired diagnoses problems considerably faster. Managers with several properties benefit most, since the learning curve happens once rather than on every call. History with a building is worth real money during an emergency.
Properties rarely cluster in one town, and coordinating a different electrician for each is its own headache. Our territory spans Bristol and Plymouth counties, so buildings in Taunton, Bridgewater, Fall River, and New Bedford can all sit with the same contractor. Billing and scheduling get simpler as a result.
Managers need to know what was found, what was fixed, and what it costs without chasing anybody for an update. Our reporting is written to be forwarded straight to an owner or a board. Questions get answered by someone who was actually on the property.
Residents notice how a contractor behaves in their hallways far more than owners realize. Our crew keeps common areas clean, gives notice before shutdowns, and treats tenants like the reason the building exists. That reflects on your management company as much as on us.
All work gets performed by licensed electricians under proper permits, inspected by the local wiring inspector where required. Our standing in the Massachusetts Electrical Contractors Association keeps the crew current on code across every community we serve.
Annual inspections work well for most properties, with more frequent attention to exterior fixtures and equipment in harsh locations. Buildings near the water in Fall River, New Bedford, or Fairhaven often need exterior components looked at more often because of salt exposure. We'll suggest an interval based on the property's age and condition.
Both work, and we set it up however your accounting prefers. Managers overseeing several buildings often want costs separated by address for owner reporting. Tell us the structure and we'll follow it.
That's entirely up to you. Some management companies route everything through their office, while others give us a direct line for electrical issues to save a step. Either way, you receive documentation of what was reported and what was done.
House and unit panels, terminations, breaker condition, GFCI and AFCI testing, common-area and exterior lighting, emergency lighting, and the exterior service and metering. Findings come back with photos and locations, sorted by urgency. Repairs within scope often get handled during the same visit.
Yes. Power loss, burning smells, sparking devices, and similar conditions in occupied buildings get treated as urgent regardless of the hour. Properties already on our maintenance schedule benefit from a crew that knows the building before arriving.
FAQs reviewed by Craig Faria, owner of Craig Faria Electrician and a licensed electrician working with property managers across Bristol and Plymouth counties from Taunton, MA.
Send us your property list and we'll put together an inspection schedule that fits your budget cycle and your buildings. You'll get consistent documentation, faster response on tenant issues, and far fewer Friday afternoon emergencies.
Business Name: Craig Faria Electrician
Address: Taunton, MA, 02780
Phone: 508-509-0076
Business Hours:
Mon - Fri: 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Sat-Sun: Closed
Emergency Service Available
One-year workmanship warranty.