Make-Ready
The work required to bring a vacant unit back to rentable condition.
Definition
Make-Ready is The work required to bring a vacant unit back to rentable condition. It comes up most often when a vacant unit is being pushed back to rentable condition as quickly and cleanly as possible.
The term keeps showing up because turnover work directly affects vacancy loss because the unit does not earn while it waits. Teams use these terms to connect scope, budget, and the promised ready date.
Use cases
Use Make-Ready to scope the work needed to bring a vacant unit back to market.
Review Make-Ready when the team needs to compare ready dates against actual downtime and cost.
Track Make-Ready so operations can keep turnover pace visible before vacancy loss compounds.