Every building you manage. One call.
Add Arabella to your panel and you get a whole network of vetted construction companies and specialists through one point of contact. We scope the job, compare the quotes, run the work and file the paperwork. You approve it and move on to the next building.
- 35+
- Companies and specialists
- 1
- Point of contact
- R0
- To use the panel
- 304Water through ceilingOn site
Sectional title, Roodepoort
- GateMotor not closingPriced
Estate, Benoni
- RoofWaterproofing failedScoped
Office park, Kempton Park
- B12Geyser burstLogged
Sectional title, Florida
The call
Something breaks. You make one call.
We handle
- Job logged against the building
- Tenant or trustee contacted
- Access arranged
- Urgent risk made safe first
Water through ceiling, unit 304
Job clock · sample
Day 0 · 07:42
The repair is the easy part.
A portfolio does not wear a managing agent down with big jobs. It does it with the forty small ones running at once, each with its own contractor, its own quote and its own trail of email. That is the part we take.
The chasing
Three contractors called, two came out, one quoted. The trustees want to know where it is.
The comparing
Three prices on three different scopes, and no way to tell which one left out the roof.
The paper
Certificates, photos and invoices in five inboxes, and an AGM that wants all of it on one page.
We love to quote
Three prices against three different scopes
is a guess, not a comparison.
Every job we price goes to several vetted contractors on one written scope, and comes back to you lined up item by item. Flip it and see the difference.
Contractor A
R18,400
- Repair leak
- Ceiling patch
- Paint (1 coat)
Contractor B
R31,900
- Replace geyser tray and overflow
- Re-waterproof roof section
- Ceiling board replaced
- Paint (2 coats)
- Rubble removal
Contractor C
R24,750
- Plumbing works as discussed
- Make good
- Excludes access equipment
The cheapest one leaves out the roof, which is the cause. The dearest one prices work nobody asked for. The third says “as discussed”. Which one do you take to the trustees?
The paperwork
A pack your trustees
can sign in one sitting.
Scope, quotes, recommendation and close-out, on one page per job, written for the people who approve the spend and answer for it at the AGM.
Job 0142 · Unit 304
Twelve-unit sectional title scheme, West Rand
- Fault tracedGeyser overflow discharging onto the roof slab above unit 304Done
- Photos and measurements14 photos, roof section measured at 12 m²Done
- Written scopeFive items, issued identically to three contractorsDone
- Urgent riskGeyser isolated and ceiling area cordoned on day 0Made safe
Add one name to your panel. Get the whole network.
Every trade a building needs, vetted and kept current, behind a single accountable point of contact. If a job needs one we do not have yet, we find it. You never have to go looking for a contractor again.
The buildings we look after
Residential, commercial and industrial.
The same method on every building: one scope, compared quotes, one accountable point of contact, and the paper filed against the building.
01
Residential
Sectional title schemes, estates and rental portfolios, where every repair needs a resolution and every resident has an opinion.
- Bodies corporate
- HOAs and estates
- Rental portfolios
- Apartment blocks
02
Commercial
Office parks, retail centres and mixed-use buildings, where a fault is a tenant complaint by lunchtime and a lease problem by Friday.
- Office parks
- Retail centres
- Mixed use
- Medical suites
03
Industrial
Warehouses, factories and yards, where the building has to keep working while it is being repaired.
- Warehouses
- Factories
- Logistics yards
- Workshops
How it starts
No tender. No contract.
One building to begin.
- 01
Send us your buildings
A list is enough: names, addresses and who the trustees or owners are. No contract to sign to get started.
- 02
We walk them
We visit, note what is coming due, and put each building on file so the first call is not the first time we see it.
- 03
Send the first job
Anything from a dripping tap to a roof. It runs exactly as it does on this page, start to finish.
- 04
Get ahead of the year
Each building gets a planned maintenance view, so the next job is quoted before it is an emergency.
Questions
What managing agents ask first.
Yes. We are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, public holidays included. A burst pipe at 2am or a power failure on a Sunday gets an answer, a contractor sent and the job logged the same as any other.
Get started
Send us one building.
We will take it from there.
Tell us what you manage and how much of it. We come back to you to set up a 20-minute meeting, at your office or on a call.
Your portfolio
What you manage
How many buildings
Managing agent
Point of contact