Budgeting for inspection repairs without a crystal ball

You cannot know which units get sampled, but you can budget from your own pre-walk data: fails per unit, cost per fix, and the life-safety items priced first. How do you build an annual inspection-repair budget that ownership believes — per unit, per building, or as a percentage of turns?

The budget that survives contact with ownership is the one built from your own evidence: a season of pre-walk data, fails per unit, average cost per fix, life-safety priced first and separately. Walk in with a guess and you will be treated like one; walk in with your own numbers and the conversation changes. It also gets easier every year, because you are forecasting from a track record instead of arguing from fear. How do you build your inspection-repair budget — per unit, per building, or as a percentage — and does ownership actually believe the number?