Before the housing market, it was either the owner's own house, or the public housing of the rental unit or the public housing of the housing authority.
Self-built housing must be managed by the owner himself, and the rented public housing is managed by the unit or the housing authority, and the housing structure at that time was also simple, and the supporting facilities and equipment were very few, and it was not difficult to manage, and the property company had no soil for survival.
I used to live in an apartment built by our court, with five units and 60 households in two buildings, and all of them were managed by the unit, and the management and maintenance expenses were borne by the unit. Later, the housing reform was sold to us, and we self-managed, self-served, self-educated, and self-supervised.
Several enthusiastic colleagues volunteered to take the lead in management, hired people to clean up, security on duty, and ran very well, but later some colleagues moved away when they had a second house or changed houses, and there were more and more strange residents, and the property fee became more and more difficult to collect. Fortunately, it was expropriated and demolished soon after, and he got out of the sea of suffering in time.
I can't manage my own community, and I can't ignore it, so the property company is about to appear.