Article:
Condition Assessment: The Advantage of Decision Support
For real property professionals fiscal responsibility and sound budgeting require broad portfolio condition assessments. On the other hand, the cost of conducting such assessments is seen as a huge hit against an agency's increasingly limited operating budget.

Is there any way to reconcile the need for comprehensive real property portfolio condition assessment and the need to control operating expenses? This article looks at methods of condition assessment, as well as a systematic decision support procedure to reduce the cost of this important aspect of real property asset management.