Documents Written by Michael Gantt

These are some handouts I've written for various special training sessions I have conducted for client companies over the last few years, and for speaking engagements with national industry organizations such as NAHRO, NAHMA, and NLHA.  They are all presented in Adobe Acrobat format.  You're welcome to make copies for yourself, and to distribute these freely as long as there is no re-publication without credit to the source, and no exchange of money involved.

The GANTT FACTORS REAC Scoring Hierarchy

This is one of my newest spreadsheet based documents - it presents all of the possible REAC defects sorted according to their Inspectable Area, then by their SCORING SIGNIFICANCE.  In other words, reading from top to bottom, each section goes from highest to lowest scoring defects.  You may find some surprises here, as to which defects are highest scoring.

Units Only version of Scoring Hierarchy - based on a 1.75 point Unit

For convenience in printing and using the above information in Unit preparations.

Handout from November 2007 Mid Atlantic AHMA Conference in Richmond

From a panel discussion

Top Ten Mistakes Everybody Makes

I write a different top ten every time I think about the subject.  This is one "top ten" I wrote for a speaking engagement at the NLHA conference in Washington, DC in June of 2007.  This was a panel discussion with Kenneth Hannon and James Arcara representing HUD and REAC, and with Lisa Tunick, an attorney and expert on REAC related legal matters, as moderator.  I represented the "REAC consulting industry."

"MAHMA Handout"

This is about a 26 page handout that I used for a MAHMA conference in 2005.  It is made up of sections written separately on topics of Setting Up Adequate Preparations for REAC Inspections; Pro-Active and Re-Active Management of REAC Physical Inspections (in speaking outline form); and Reading and Utilizing the REAC Inspection Scoring Report; Making Preparations for REAC Inspections.  I highly recommend the Scoring Report section - it is an eye-opener.

A Conversation About REAC Inspections: Stuff SOMEBODY Should Have Told You, But Never Did

This includes another "Top Ten Mistakes" and how to avoid them by taking specific actions.  It was a handout at a speaking engagement with the Kentucky Housing Association conference in April, 2007.

America's Whackiest REAC Stories!  War Stories from the Trenches of the REAC Consulting Business

A very tongue-in-cheek account of some of the surprising problems my clients and I have encountered.  This was presented at the same NLHA panel in DC in June, 2007.  It includes the story of a property in Chicago where their score varied from 80+, to 57, to 23, to 93 as they were inspected 3 times in a matter of only about six months.  There's the story of how a broken swing or a single small piece of glass can each cost you 6 points, or the inch of copper pipe and the speckles of paint on a sprinkler head - each worth 18 points.  And, there are a couple more stories out of hundreds I could tell, where inspectors made amazing judgment calls or the REAC scoring system resulted in ridiculous results.