FAQ - frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the most common concerns of both tenants and property owners.
For tenants
No, answering the survey is voluntary. Of course both we and your landlord would like as many people as possible to respond to the survey in order to get different views and opinions. The purpose of the customer survey is also for the results to be used actively in the improvement work. But of course you as tenants decided whether or not you wish to participate. If you do not want to participate in the survey, please call or email us at AktivBo (when you receive your first survey) to avoid us sending you reminders.
Yes, AktivBo guarantees that everyone who answers a housing survey remains anonymous. The surveys contain one randomly generated number so that we do not need to remind those who have already responded, and so that an answer that leads to something needing attention can be traced to the right property.
That is absolutely fine. We give all tenants the opportunity to respond to the survey by telephone.
AktivBo always aims for the results to be fed back to the respondents. However, it is up to your landlord to decide how to present the results. Please contact your landlord if you want to know more. If you don’t receive any feedback, please contact us! We will be happy to help influence your landlord.
Unfortunately not. AktivBo can only accept questions related to the survey. If you have problems with the property you need to deal directly with your landlord.
This depends on how your landlord has chosen to carry out the survey. At AktivBo we recommend letting all customers/tenants have the opportunity to respond. However, this does not need to take place at the same time. Some landlords choose to send the survey to parts or their entire portfolio; others send out surveys regularly each week to a selection of tenants.
Housing and real estate
One must consider each tenant as an important and preferred customer, just like in any other industry. It pays to have satisfied customers. This applies whether you manage housing or business premises, have vacancies or are fully occupied, work in a small town or a big city, are about to renovate or start building a new property. In order to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction, one must create a good customer dialog. A good start is therefore to listen to customers’ views and desires. Using surveys you can capture what is most important to customers in a structured way and then act upon the answers. In other words, your company obtains a basis for performance management that leads to carrying out the right actions, and you can avoid making investments that are not required.
Furthermore, a satisfied tenant costs less than a disgruntled one. Fewer complaints, fewer relocations, fewer tenant adaptations, and a stronger brand are some additional positive effects that contribute to higher profitability.
Thanks to our huge database, we can provide comparative figures in many different areas and on different levels. This means that we support many different specializations in the housing and real estate industry with benchmarks, information, statistics, and data that help in decision-making. Housing companies, construction companies, urban planners, architects, and more. We tailor the benchmarks at the local, regional, national and/or international level. Comparisons can also be broken down into different indexes, sub-indexes, and issues as well as company size, a form of ownership, etc.
With our method of presenting the results, you can also easily identify trends over time and make comparisons on many different levels and parameters. Our digital analytics tool is structured to support this. As an individual client company, you can choose the information you wish to have presented in your custom application. We have aggregated industry data containing development trends for various issues, indices, and sub-indices from 2005 onwards.
AktivBo is built upon a research-based foundation which allows us to continuously carry out qualitative and quantitative studies and meta analyses to follow industry trends. We do this both for the companies that are our clients – but also for non-clients so that we can follow other companies’ developments.
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