Backoffice Admin Outsourcing
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Category: Family Office
Book of the Month
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Workforce Planning and Scheduling
Unreasonable Hospitality
The Fricks Collect: An American Family and the Evolution of Taste in the Gilded Age
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Supportive Accountability: How to Inspire People and Improve Performance
Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing
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Books
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Wine A Tasting Course: From Grape to Glass
Types Of Wine Glasses
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (American Alliance of Museums)
The Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collection (Winterthur Decorative Arts Series)
The Visual Handbook of Building and Remodeling
The Simple Art of Napkin Folding
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Collections
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Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (American Alliance of Museums)
The Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collection (Winterthur Decorative Arts Series)
For the Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library
Collection Care: An Illustrated Handbook for the Care and Handling of Cultural Objects
Caring for Your Cherished Objects: The Winterthur Guide
Basic Condition Reporting: A Handbook, 5th Edition
Housekeeping
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The Pocket Butler's Guide to Good Housekeeping: Expert Advice on Cleaning, Laundry and Home Maintenance
The Folding Book
Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook
Laundry: The Home Comforts Book of Caring for Clothes and Linens
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
Field Guide to Stains
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How EstateSpace Is Revolutionizing Estate Management
Do you want technology that services your needs and much more? Find out how EstateSpace can help elevate all.
Why Estate Managers Need Technology That’s Built for Them
Estate managers run households like small businesses, but the tools they’re using can’t keep up. Enough with the tedious spreadsheets and endless text messages. Estate managers need technology that’s built specifically for them, so they can avoid burnout, stop working 24/7, and focus on their favorite parts of the job.
The Importance of Budgets
As the hired talent IN CHARGE of adhering to, and managing budgets, it is YOUR responsibility to ask for, and receive operating budgets from your Primary. Let’s talk about all the scenarios, from being hired, to establishing and evolving your Real Property Asset(s) budgets.
HR Q&A With Lisa Petrello and Stella Martins
Estate Manager Stella Martins and HR Advisor Lisa Petrello, from GTM Payroll Services, discuss important household HR issues including pay, PTO, termination, Covid, and what to include in an employee handbook.
Nines: Technology Built for Estate Managers
Estate managers deserve technology that’s built specifically for them, that’s tailored to their unique needs. Every household is unique, and they’re always changing. Estate managers need a dynamic, flexible tool that can keep up with — and tame — the chaos.
Online Scheduling and Payroll with Deputy
One of the responsibilities I take on as an Estate Management EA is to handle the admin for scheduling staff and submitting their timesheets for approval. At any given time I have to track staff at over a dozen locations throughout the country, which can makes this a very time consuming task.
EMN Guide // HomeZada for Home Inventory
HomeZada is a great tool for building a home inventory. It’s cloud-based, offers a desktop client and mobile app, and is highly intuitive, cutting the time it takes to get work done. While HomeZada is very easy to navigate, we’ve put together this easy set-up guide to get you to the home inventory tool as quickly as possible. PRO MEMBER CONTENT
Employment Contract Templates
As of January 1, 2022 all domestic worker employers in Chicago will be required to provide a written contract to their workers. Below are comprehensive sample contracts for home cleaners, nannies / childcare workers, and caregivers created by Arise Chicago. PRO MEMBER CONTENT
Slack for Your Estate Team
Of all of the things that need to be streamlined and organized, communication should be at the top of any Estate Manager’s list. Slack pulls a huge portion of minor texts and emails out of your inbox and into a repository for the entire team to reference and creates a platform for targeted group communication. Here’s how to set up Slack for your team. PRO MEMBER CONTENT
California’s ‘Silenced No More’ NDA Act SB-331
Recent headlines revealing that Jeffrey Epsteins’s House Manager and Staff had been instructed, and bound by non-disclosure agreements, to share nothing of the activities going on in the home brought the topic of NDA’s to the forefront of conversation.
Chicago’s Domestic Employee Contract Mandate
Under a new rule for the City of Chicago that takes effect Jan. 1, anyone who hires a domestic worker must provide them with a written contract in their primary language, as requested by the worker, regardless of their status as an employee or independent contractor.