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POAS offers snacks!
Due to corona virus situation, it is a safe choice to skip tenant events this year as well, so we wanted to offer another tenant benefit instead. According to the customer survey conducted in February, the most desirable benefit was a discount code for home delivery of food, so we decided to go for it! Also, we wanted to support local restaurants during these times.
POAS offers tenants a €15 discount code to Foodora food delivery service! We will send instructions on how to redeem the discount to our tenants via email. NOTE! There is a limited number of codes available, so redeem your benefit soon! The codes are valid until 31 July 2021.
Enjoy!
More information on tenant benefits:
POAS Marketing and tenant activities team
markkinointi@poas.fi
POAS introduces a new tenant survey tool. All our tenants receive a general survey once a year, which is sent by text message to your mobile phone (by e-mail if the phone number is not known). We will ask your feedback also after moving in and out, as well as on how we handled Notices of Defects. With the new tool we are able to collect more comprehensive feedback, and answering the survey is easier than before!
In the future, we will report the feedback received during the previous year annually. Tenant feedback is utilized in the development of our services and housing complexes, so we kindly ask you to answer the surveys. As before, Finnkino movie tickets are drawn among the respondents.
Water is not endless. Clean water is a dwindling natural resource and water resources are unevenly distributed. Finnish person uses an average of 155 liters of water a day, when a global average is 22 liters/person. Drinkable water is also consumed for many things other than drinking or cooking, such as doing dishes, laundry or taking a shower.
Energy saving can directly reflect in housing costs. In addition to money, the pursuit of energy efficiency saves the environment as well as improves indoor air conditions and living comfort. Energy and water costs are typically 30-40% of a housing company’s maintenance costs. Your own consumption habits also have an effect: the effect of residents’ consumption habits on the housing company’s consumption level is +/- 5%.
POAS reduces water consumption by various means, such as installing water saving components in the water fixtures of our apartments. Current standard showers’ water flows with the speed of 12 liters/minute, but older models or large rain showers can flow even 20 liters in a minute. Shortening your showering time by few minutes can save tens of liters of water per day.
Tenants can get a shower coach from POAS office to measure time spent in the shower. Shower coach is a hourglass that you can attach on the wall of your shower. Sand flows for 4 minutes.
Report leaking water fixtures
Leaking water fixtures, such as toilet seat, water taps or pipes, increase water consumption in your building. Sometimes a leak can be almost unnoticeable and therefore incur significant costs before the issue is located and repaired. So that increased water bill would not increase your rent, we are kindly asking you to locate the leaking water fixtures.
How to locate leaks
- Observe the toilet seat: do you notice purling sound or water surface ripples? These can be signs of leaking fixture.
- You can also conduct a test with toilet paper. Place a piece of toilet paper inside the toilet seat on the back wall, or under a water tap in a dry sink. If the piece of paper gets unmistakably wet, the water fixture is leaking.
- Report leaks to POAS by filling out a Notice of defects
Thank you for helping us to reduce water consumption and take care of the environment.
POAS is upgrading its telephone systems, and therefore employee’s direct phone numbers will change. You can check the new phone numbers on our website.
During the change, there may momentarily be old contact information in Kodinportaali and other systems. We’ll update the contact information everywhere as soon as possible.
Customer service will continue to assist customers in the familiar office number:
+358 40 668 6008
Pirkan Opiskelija-asunnot Oy (POAS) sells its residential properties of Karosenkatu 3 and Karosenkatu 4, a total of 125 apartments, located in Annala, Tampere. POAS is developing strongly by producing new rental apartments for its target groups. The sale of these properties enables the construction of new, affordable rental apartments. Buyers are Innovest Kiinteistöt Oy and Nordic Business Investments Oy. The properties will be taken over by the new owners on 1 May 2021.
POAS has secured the status of tenants living in the properties: rents will not be increased, nor rental agreements terminated during the next 12 months from the transaction, provided the tenant has fulfilled their agreement obligations. The amount of the transaction is not public.
More information:
Timo Jokinen
CEO, POAS
Jukka Hämäläinen
Innovest Kiinteistöt Oy
Jyri Linden
Nordic Business Investments Oy
UPDATE ON 19 January 2021: The issues on our website are now fixed, and all our online services are available normally.
We have encountered a technical problem in our Tenant portal and application page. Due to the issue, the sites show a notification saying that the connection is not encrypted. This is not a cyberattack, and our customer information has not been compromised. We are currently inspecting the issue together with Visma Tampuuri, the service provider.
We recommend that you avoid using the tenant portal and inserting any personal information to application in case you get the notification mentioned above. The Apartment search can be safely used to explore apartment options, but we recommend that before applying, please wait until the problem has been fixed.
You can contact our customer service in all matters concerning your rental agreement or housing application. See contact information here.
We apologise for the inconvenience!
Introducing our new support athlete, biathlete Saana Lahdelma.
Our 21-year-old support athlete has been successful in youth biathlon: in 2019 she won the Finnish Championship in the distance of 12.5km with the time of 42:35.5. She represented Finland in IBU Youth & Junior World Championship Biathlon 2020 in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Also this season her goal is participating in international championship competitions.
Representing Mikkelin Hiihtäjät sports club, Saana has also competed in cross-country skiing. Find out more about Saana’s sports achievements from Finnish Ski Association’s website.
Saana, who lives in our housing complex of Tieteenkatu, is studying in Tampere University. Tampere’s shooting ranges and versatile exercise opportunities make her training easier, but she also emphasizes the importance of home: “The apartment plays a big role in my recovery. You need to be able to feel comfortable and calm down at home.”
Good luck Saana!
You can follow Saana on Instagram!
New staff from 1st of October onwards: Elli-Noora Niemelä joins our office’s customer service team. Elli-Noora’s duties include processing housing applications and renting apartments. She has previously worked in a house management agency Pamis as a property secretary.
Verna Rantala has started as an administrative engineer. Verna, who graduated as an engineer of energy and environmental technology, worked as our property assistant during the summer. As an administrative engineer, her duties include management and development of our ERP systems as well as acting as data protection officer.
Welcome to the team!
Installation of plastic recycling bins is finished and all of our housing complexes have plastic collection bins. The collections bins as well as signboards were updated with plastic recycling instructions. Please pay attention to these new waste collection arrangements when you take your waste to waste collection points!
There are these kind of signboards in waste collection points.
What belongs / does not belong to plastic waste?
All following empty, clean and dry plastic household packaging can be thrown into the plastic waste collection bins:
- Plastic food packaging such as yoghurt pots, butter tubs and packaging for colt cuts, cheese and ready meal (photo)
- Detergent, shampoo and soap packaging
- Plastic bottles, cans and jars (preferably flattened)
- Plastic carrier bags, bags and wrappings
DO NOT put these into plastic waste:
- Dirty plastic packaging and mixed waste
- Packages that contain remains of hazardous waste (such as different chemicals)
- PVC packaging (marked as “03”)
- Other plastic products (such as toys, buckets, dishes) or plastic packaging waste from companies
Please note that the recycled plastic waste should be clean and dry. Rinse or wipe the packages before throwing them into the collection bin. If you need to use hot water or washing liquid to clean the packages, might be better for the environment to just throw those into the mixed waste.
More information and recycling instructions can be found from here.