For CFOs · Risk Managers · Facilities Directors

Every building you own is telling you something. Right now, nobody's listening.

Water in a boiler room Friday night. A wing drifting toward freezing over winter break. A door opening in a school you closed last June. PropertyAttest puts continuous sensors across your whole portfolio, occupied and vacant, and tells the right person the moment something changes. We install. We monitor. We inform. Your team acts on facts instead of discovering damage.

Occupied campuses Vacant & closing buildings Admin & support facilities Break & holiday coverage
District Property PortfolioMONITORING
84
Buildings monitored
1,240
Sensing points online
1
Open alert
4 min
Avg. time to notify
Elm Street ES (vacant) · Boiler room 41°F ↓District on-call notified
Northside MS · Water event, kitchen · district dispatchedTue 2:14 AM
Portfolio · 30-day evidence report deliveredToday
Illustrative dashboard. Your portfolio, your buildings, your numbers.
3.2×
One Kansas City-area district's property premium growth over five years
50%+
Renewal increases a major Texas school risk pool calls "not unusual"
$7.28M
What Chicago spent over 12 years just carrying 21 empty schools
#1
Water damage: the top non-catastrophe property claim nationally
The Problem

Your premiums price in what you can't see

Districts are paying more every renewal for the same buildings, while the buildings themselves go unwatched nights, weekends, summers, and every day after a closure vote. The losses that drive premiums are overwhelmingly the ones nobody caught early.

1

Premiums are climbing relentlessly

One Midwest district watched its annual property premium more than triple in five years. Texas pool members are told 50 percent renewal jumps are normal. Deductibles are climbing right alongside, which means more of every loss is yours.

2

Detection time is the whole game

A pipe that bursts at 6 p.m. Friday and gets found Monday morning is a six-figure claim. The same pipe caught at 6:04 p.m. is a mop and a plumber's invoice. Nothing about the pipe changed. Only who knew, and when.

3

Vacant buildings are the sharp edge

Closure plans save millions, then leave buildings sitting a year or more awaiting reuse decisions, through freeze seasons, with water pressure on and nobody inside. Weekly walk-throughs can't watch a building 168 hours a week.

The quiet math: the monitoring that catches these events across an entire portfolio costs less than most districts' single-claim deductible. This isn't a technology purchase. It's buying back the detection time your coverage assumes you have.
What We Do · And What We Don't

Install. Monitor. Inform. That's the whole service, on purpose.

We're not a repair company, and you already have plumbers, electricians, and vendors you trust. What you don't have is the fact, at 2 a.m., that they're needed. That fact is what we sell.

What PropertyAttest does

  • Install: battery-powered wireless sensors for water, temperature, entry, and power across every building that matters. Surface mount, no construction, under a day per campus.
  • Monitor: every sensor, every building, 24/7/365, on infrastructure that doesn't depend on a building's own network or anyone remembering to check.
  • Inform: the moment something changes, the right people on your call tree get notified, by phone, text, and email, with the building, the room, and the reading. Delivery is confirmed and logged.
  • Document: monthly per-building evidence reports and a renewal-season summary for your broker, pool, or board. Every event, every notification, every timestamp.

What stays yours

  • Dispatch and repair. Your staff or your vendors respond; you already know who to call, and now you'll call them hours or days earlier.
  • The decision of who gets woken up for what. You set the call tree and thresholds; we execute them exactly.
  • The savings. Early detection means claims avoided, deductibles never triggered, and closure savings that stay saved. That math lands on your budget, not ours.
Read the Fine Print

What your coverage actually says about vacant buildings

Standard commercial property language changes the deal the day a building goes vacant. Many districts discover this after the loss.

60 days

Under standard commercial property provisions, a building vacant for 60 consecutive days triggers vacancy restrictions. Most reuse studies take far longer than that.

Excluded

After that point, standard forms exclude losses from water damage, vandalism, sprinkler leakage, glass breakage, and theft entirely. The exact perils a vacant school faces most.

−15%

Even covered perils, including fire, commonly pay out 15 percent less on a vacant building. The claim you thought you had shrinks before it's written.

School risk pools write their own vacancy language, and it varies. So here's the only question that matters: do you know what yours says about the buildings you closed last summer?

Most business offices haven't read that section since the building was full. We'll walk through it with you in the free portfolio review, and from day one of monitoring you hold a documented, timestamped record of vigilance and notification for every conversation with your pool, your carrier, and your board.

Our no-promises promise: we don't promise premium discounts, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Carriers reward risk management in their own ways on their own schedule. What we promise is simpler: you'll know about every event in minutes, and you'll never again find out about a burst pipe from the smell.
This Is Happening Now

The closure wave is real, and it's carrying risk with it.

Districts across the country are consolidating campuses as enrollment declines. One large Texas district recently approved closing 18 campuses to save more than $77 million over five years. It's the right financial move, and hundreds of districts are making the same one.

Here's the exposure hiding inside every one of those plans: buildings go dark on a schedule, but reuse-or-demolition decisions take a year or more. That's vacant buildings sitting through summer heat and at least one hard freeze season with water pressure on and nobody inside.

Every district running a consolidation plan inherits this same window between "closed" and "decided." The savings are booked on day one. The risk starts the same day, and it runs until the last building is sold, repurposed, or demolished. And the occupied buildings that remain? They're empty 16 hours a day and all summer too.

A typical consolidation plan10-20 campuses
Time from closure vote to reuse decision12-24 months
Freeze seasons per vacant building, typical1-2
Days vacant before standard coverage restrictions60
Hours per week a walk-through actually watches<1 of 168
Closure and savings figures from public board actions and news reporting.
What We Watch

Four signals cover most of what goes wrong in a building

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Water

Leak detection at boilers, water heaters, kitchens, restroom banks, and known trouble spots. Sensors detect the first traces and notify immediately, not on the next walk-through.

🌡️

Freeze

Temperature watch in every wing. When an unheated corner drifts toward pipe-burst territory on a February night, your on-call knows while it's still a thermostat problem, not an insurance problem.

🚪

Entry

Door monitoring on vacant buildings and after-hours spaces. Vandalism and theft are exactly what vacancy provisions stop covering, so knowing immediately is worth real money.

Power

If a building loses power, it loses its heat, its sump pumps, and its eyes. We watch the power too, and your team knows within minutes, not at the next visit.

How It Works

From portfolio list to monitored district in weeks

Portfolio risk review

We map your buildings, occupied and vacant, flag the risk points, and walk through your pool or carrier vacancy language together. You get the exposure picture whether or not you buy anything.

Free · 30 days

Install

Surface-mount, battery-powered sensors, working the day they're placed. Vacant buildings get self-contained connectivity that doesn't depend on district network. Under a day per campus.

Days, not months

Monitor & inform

24/7 monitoring with immediate notification down your call tree: phone, text, email, delivery confirmed. Water at 2 a.m. means your on-call has the building and the room at 2:04, and your vendor is rolling by 2:15.

Continuous

Report & renew

Monthly per-building evidence reports and a renewal-season summary built for your broker, pool, or board. Sensors move with you as buildings close, sell, or reopen.

Every renewal cycle

You can't respond to what you don't know about.

Start with the free portfolio risk review: your building list, your vacancy language, your exposure windows, one page. If the numbers say you don't need us, you'll have that in writing too. Tell us a little about your portfolio and you'll hear from a real engineer within 24 hours.

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