john steward will give the property management updates. >> good afternoon. our first slide as always is a staffing slide. we've had some improvements in the staffing situation. going through just the changes. we have hired and occupancy specialists, they started two days ago on the 24th. we have somebody in place that we have identified for the property position they're in the hiring process. last time, i was here we were short two maintenance people. we have hired one of them and we have another one that has worked for a couple of weeks that we hope to have an offer for very soon. so we're either fully staffed or we have tempted in position that we plan on boarding very soon. so a lot of positive movement on that front. there we go. the next slide is the work order summary. so i did a little work on this based on the comments that i got at the last meeting and it is, works a little bit better. so, in september, we opened 55 work orders and we closed 55 work orders. this includes emergencies. the average number of days to complete those work orders was 4. of

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