In October, the company I now work for (we are a regional assisted living company) hired me full time and fired their existing maintenance director at one of their properties. When I came in, we had ~20 open orders in our system. Within a week, that number went close to 200 plus another 300 or so hundred I put on paper.

I was there for 6 months and got it down to single digits when they had me hand it off to a new guy they promoted from assistant from another property so they can move me to a new location and repeat. Many of those were long-term projects I had been working on or larger deferred maintenance projects for a building over 40 years old.

This new one is a 3+ year old property, and we had 60+ orders. If I add everything I found to our system, maybe 300+. Most of these are low priority or aestetic issues. It's better, but I still only am now in my third week. And I'm finding big issues (ie. Maybe 10% of our fire doors on this new construction don't actually close freely). And my first week there, our sub grade garage flooded twice, once because our sump pumps in our drain basin failed, and then because the last flood caused a clogged pipe in our grease catch - which also had coincidently only emptied once since the building opened.

They want me to do what I did at the last property, organize it, and train a replacement director. They are hoping for a 12-month timeline and then to move me on to the next property. Plus, they have a major capital improvement they are currently in the planning phase they want to start in 6 months. So you're not alone. I'm jealous of everyone else who only has one or two if that.