
Summit Property Group cut vacancies 23% and recovered $1.8M in lost rent with a unified property management platform
A 480-unit residential portfolio was bleeding rent to vacancies and late payments, and maintenance requests were drowning in email. A custom property management platform collapsed listings, leases, rent collection, and maintenance into one system — and the rent roll followed.
Summit's 480 units across 14 buildings were managed on a mix of spreadsheets, a 2016 property management tool that couldn't sync listings, and a maintenance inbox no one owned. Vacancy rate sat at 9.4% — well above the 6% market average — because listings went stale the moment a unit turned over. Rent collection was at 87% on-time, with $1.8M in trailing receivables the accounting team had written off as 'probably uncollectable.' Maintenance requests averaged 9 days to resolve, tenants were churning, and the leasing team spent half its week re-keying the same data into Zillow, Realtor.com, and the internal tracker.
We deployed our Property & Real Estate Management platform with automated listing syndication to Zillow, Realtor.com, and Apartments.com the moment a unit turns over, online rent collection with ACH and card processing plus automated late-fee and reminder workflows, a tenant portal for maintenance requests with vendor assignment and SLA tracking, and lease management with automated renewals and expirations flagged 60 days out. The platform went live in 7 weeks and replaced four tools the property managers were juggling.
We were leaving nearly two million dollars a year on the table in vacancies and late rent and had somehow accepted it as normal. The first month after go-live, our on-time collection jumped ten points and three stale listings leased within a week of being syndicated. The rent roll told the whole story.



