Leverage Your Existing System!

Recently I was visiting someone at an upscale apartment community. I struck up a conversation with the Property Management and being me, I asked her what PM system they used. She told me and said he didn’t like it. No names needed here. I asked her why she did not like the system and discovered a crucial reason.

It turns out that she has to fill out a report in Excel every week and email it to the Regional Manager. All, I repeat all, of the data on this Excel report is from the PM System. I suspect that not only does each Property Manager fill out and email this report, there is someone at the corporate office that consolidates the data and creates another report.

This very manual process could easily be automated with a custom report. It might cost a few thousand to create it but it would be a quick return on investment in process efficiency and accuracy. All it takes is for corporate to talk to the on-site Managers about there system needs.

Leverage the system you have!

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