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The Renter Experience In Property Management With Ben Doherty
Description
Leasing is one of the hardest aspects of property management. What if you had a way to offload some or all of your tasks related to leasing?
Today, property management growth expert Jason Hull chats with Ben from Sunroom. This service allows property managers to offload leasing to leasing professionals who care about property managers, owners, and tenants.
You'll Learn…
[01:26] Offloading Leasing: What is Sunroom?
[09:01] ShowMojo, Tenant Turner, vs. Sunroom, oh my!
[016:35] Better ways to do Property Showings
[020:23] How Sunroom Vets Tenants Better
[24:21] Integrating with Other PM Software
[31:30] Net Promoter Scores for Property Management and Leasing
[37:12] Learning to LET GO as a PM Entrepreneur
Tweetables
"Some of y'all entrepreneurs are control freaks. Let's be real, and you need to let go of some of this stuff and let somebody else do it a little bit better."
"We have a lot of egos as entrepreneurs. We think our way is the best way all the time, and we need to see that maybe somebody else could do this better."
"Property managers tend to do best if they just convince owners to do pets. You're going to get more tenants, you're going to get more money."
"One of the biggest time sucks for a property management company is dealing with prospective tenants."
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Transcript[00:00:00] Ben: So what we do is we partner with property management companies and become their leasing arm. So if you're a newer property management company, you're focused on growing doors and you just mainly want to focus on that, right? One of the most important things is you got to get leasing. If you don't get leasing, you're not going to lease the doors quickly, which then your owner investors are not going to be happy about that.
[00:00:22] Jason Hull: Welcome DoorGrow Hackers to the # DoorGrowShow. So if you are a property management entrepreneur that wants to add doors, make a difference, increase revenue, help others, impact lives, and you're interested in growing in business and life, and you're open to doing things a bit differently then you are a DoorGrow Hacker. DoorGrow Hackers love the opportunities, daily variety, unique challenges and freedom that property management brings. Many in real estate think you're crazy for doing it. You think they're crazy for not bebecause you realize that property management is the ultimate, high trust gateway to real estate deals, relationships, and residual income. At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management business owners and their businesses. We want to transform the industry, eliminate the bs, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. I'm your host property management growth expert, Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow. Now let's get into the show.
[00:01:19] Jason Hull: All right. Ben, welcome to the #DoorGrowShow.
[00:01:24] Ben: Thanks for having me, Jason.
[00:01:26] Jason Hull: Good to have you. So Ben, why don't we start by you giving us a little bit of your background, qualify yourself. You've done some cool stuff and I'm in the market where you did some of this cool stuff. We just realized in the green room that we're practically neighbors in Austin, market downtown, and I'm up in Round Rock. Ben, tell us a little bit about y