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Property management glossary
Maintenance & operations

Service-level target

Also called: SLA target

Plain-English definition

An internal goal for acknowledging, responding to, or completing a category of work.

What service-level target means in practice

Targets make expectations measurable without promising that every repair has the same timeline. They should distinguish initial response from final resolution and allow urgent safety issues to bypass the routine queue.

Example

The team targets acknowledgment of routine requests within one business day and immediate escalation of active leaks or life-safety concerns.

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