Several HIFIS users want a way to be able to track necessary repairs to housing units. It is logical that these repairs be able to be tracked in the Housing Maintenance module, but there is one problem preventing this use: the fact that both the Scheduled Start Date and Actual Start Date fields are mandatory. This prevents a user from adding a Maintenance Log to indicate that maintenance is necessary, but hasn’t been scheduled yet. The simplest solution is to make these fields optional.