Real Estate & Property Management
The deal, the lease and the work order should not be three systems.
This is a business where the record of what was agreed lives in somebody’s phone. A showing gets a text, a repair gets a group chat, a renewal gets an email thread, and the software of record is whichever platform came with the franchise. It works until volume arrives, and then the cost shows up as deals that went quiet, deposits that will not reconcile, and an owner asking a question that takes two days to answer. The systems worth building here are the ones that make the follow-up automatic and the money auditable.
What we hear
The problems that actually show up.
Not a market overview. These are the specific failures that bring people to us in this sector.
The follow-up nobody made
Most lost deals are not lost to a competitor, they are lost to silence. The contact, the note from the showing and the reason to call back in March all exist, in three places, none of which will ever remind anyone.
Commercial and residential are not one problem
CAM reconciliations, escalation schedules and renewal options on one side; turnover, deposits, screening and maintenance volume on the other. Software built for one is consistently wrong for the other, and a firm doing both usually pays for both and reconciles by hand.
Dispatch by group text
Work orders arrive by phone, get relayed to a vendor by message, and are closed when somebody says so. There is no timestamp, no photo, no cost against the unit and no way to tell an owner what was done without scrolling.
Money that has to reconcile to the cent
Security deposits, owner funds and operating cash are not the same money, and in most states that is a licensing matter rather than an accounting preference. Trust reconciliation is where the audit lands, and it is usually the least-instrumented part of the stack.
Outreach that is regulated
Automated texts, drip sequences and a personalized newsletter are all regulated communications. Consent and opt-out are data, with a date and a source, and a system that cannot produce that record on request is a liability rather than a marketing asset.
What we build here
Systems we typically build in this sector.
Some of these are whole products; some are one screen that removed a week of manual work. Both count.
- Agent and brokerage CRM: contacts, listings, showings and call notes on one timeline
- Automated follow-up sequences with consent and opt-out state in the data model, not in a field
- Personalized market updates and newsletters generated from your own listing and closing data
- Commercial lease administration: rent rolls, escalations, options and CAM reconciliation
- Residential management: applications, screening hand-off, renewals and turnover
- Work-order intake, dispatch and vendor management with photo capture in the field
- Owner and tenant portals with statements, documents and payments
- Trust and operating account reconciliation with an audit trail per transaction
- Portfolio reporting: occupancy, delinquency and net operating income off one set of definitions
- Listing and service sites that a buyer can actually find, and that load on a phone in a parking lot
Integrates with
The estate you already have.
We work through supported interfaces, not screen-scraping that breaks at the next upgrade.
Built to
The standards this sector answers to.
Engineered in from the start. Retrofitting conformance costs several times as much and produces a worse result.
Case studies
None published in this sector yet.
We have not delivered and published an engagement in real estate & property management under this firm’s name. We would rather say that here than let a capability page imply otherwise. What is behind this page is the regime named above, the services listed below, and the reference implementations on the engineering page, each carrying a written note of what it is not. If a proven engagement in your own sector is what the decision rests on, say so on the first call and we will tell you plainly whether we are the wrong firm for it this year.
Sources
- 1.Housing Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act (opens in a new tab), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- 2.Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 (opens in a new tab), W3C,
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