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Real Estate

Enterprise Property Management Platform

Managed 12,000+ units on a single platform

12,000+
Units managed
-89%
Data entry time
72 hrs → 18 hrs
Maintenance response
91% → 97%
Rent collection rate

!The Challenge

A property management company overseeing 12,000+ residential units across 40 properties used a patchwork of five different software tools: one for tenant communications, one for maintenance requests, one for accounting, one for lease management, and spreadsheets for everything else. Staff spent 30% of their time on data entry between systems.

Our Solution

We built a unified property management platform that handles the entire lifecycle — from listing and application processing to lease management, maintenance coordination, and financial reporting — in a single system with tenant-facing and management portals.

Tech Stack:Next.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSStripe

The Full Story

Scalable property management system with tenant portals, automated lease workflows, and integrated financial reporting.

Managing 12,000+ residential units across 40 properties is complex enough. Doing it with five disconnected software tools made it nearly impossible to scale. The property management company's staff spent an estimated 30% of their working hours on data entry — copying information between their tenant communication platform, maintenance system, accounting software, lease management tool, and the inevitable spreadsheets that filled the gaps.

The financial impact was staggering. With 85 staff members, 30% of labor dedicated to data entry translated to roughly $1.2M annually in wasted productivity. Beyond the direct cost, data inconsistencies between systems led to billing errors, missed maintenance requests, and lease renewals that fell through the cracks.

Our platform unified everything into a single system. The tenant portal handles applications, lease signing, rent payments (Stripe integration), maintenance requests, and communications. The management dashboard provides real-time occupancy rates, financial summaries, and maintenance tracking across all 40 properties.

Automated lease workflows were a key feature. When a lease approaches expiration, the system automatically generates renewal offers based on market rates, sends them to tenants, processes electronic signatures, and updates the accounting system — all without staff intervention. Renewal processing time dropped from 2 weeks of back-and-forth to 48 hours.

The maintenance system uses priority-based routing. Emergency requests (water leaks, heating failures) trigger immediate contractor dispatch with automated escalation if not acknowledged within 30 minutes. Routine requests are batched and optimized for contractor scheduling efficiency. Average response time improved from 72 hours to 18 hours.

Rent collection was transformed by automated payment processing and smart reminder sequences. Tenants can set up autopay, receive reminders at 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before due date, and access a payment portal for one-time payments. The rent collection rate improved from 91% to 97%, recovering approximately $720,000 in annual revenue that was previously lost to late or missed payments.

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