Prepared for OptimumProp — ~1,500+ units · Rent Manager (power user; integrations in use: Findigs, Butterfly MX, FCO, Avid, Zego, Savant, Blue Moon).
Prepared by David Laskin · PM Automations.ai · david@hyprassistants.com
Each build in this proposal is self-contained — start with one, add others later, or take the set. Every price is fixed; overruns are on the vendor.
Inventory & purchasing accountability is the #1 priority — Fred: 'there is no tracking right now, we want to build a tracking system.' No view of what comes in, what goes out, what it was used for, or whether a portfolio is over budget.
Material is bought in bulk in advance (HD Supply, Chadwell) into per-portfolio depots — with one shared Jersey City depot used by several portfolios — and pulled by supers for jobs, but pulls are logged only on pen-and-paper and never tied to a unit or work order, so cost can't be allocated. Only maintenance directors carry cards; supers pull from the depot.
Accountability is wanted top-down at the maintenance-director / portfolio level, NOT per-super micromanagement: meter each portfolio's R&M spend against a ~$800/unit/year benchmark ($800 × units ÷ 12 monthly), and fire an over-budget alarm that forces an extra approval.
Maintenance work-order intake is manual: tenants submit (Savant email / portal / phone), then office staff re-categorize, re-prioritize, assign, open and close every ticket. Two maintenance directors each oversee ~800 apartments. Tickets also get mis-routed (a 4th-floor 'leak' marked Emergency is really a roof job for the director/roofer, not the building super), and tenants aren't kept updated.
Violations arrive by mail and get hand-keyed into RM as work orders — pure admin time inside customer-service headcount.
Utilities (older NJ buildings, one water/gas bill per building) need a trends dashboard that flags bills up/down beyond seasonal norms instead of catching it on the T12.
Licenses/permits (BBPR/DBPR, etc.) are tracked manually; a lapse means ~6 months to reinstate.
Recurring reports (pest-control analytics, others) are assembled by hand; eviction hand-off to the lawyer is the one un-automated step; leasing tour scheduling + prospect pre-screen still manual.
Hard requirement: everything must live INSIDE Rent Manager — Fred won't adopt standalone third-party portals his team has to babysit.
| Build | Fixed price |
|---|---|
| Inventory & Purchasing Accountability Phase 1 — start hereZero spend tracking today — Fred's #1 priority: no view of what comes in, what goes out, what it was used for, or which portfolio is over budget. | $6,700 |
| Maintenance Work-Order Automation (intake → priority → RM) Phase 1 — start hereOffice staff manually re-keying, re-categorizing, re-prioritizing, assigning, opening and closing every inbound ticket across ~1,600 apartments under two maintenance directors. | $4,600 |
| ↳ Recommended Phase 1 — Inventory & Purchasing Accountability + Maintenance Work-Order Automation (intake → priority → RM) | $11,300 |
| Utility Trend Dashboard + Anomaly FlaggingManually scanning ~150 utility bills, or only catching a spike when the T12 already shows the damage. | $3,200 |
| License & Permit Renewal TrackerA lapsed license that takes ~6 months to reinstate because no one was watching the date. | $2,100 |
| Violation → Work-Order AutomationSomeone opening each mailed violation and hand-building the work order. | $3,500 |
| Eviction Hand-off Step (lawyer routing)The one un-automated step in an otherwise automated delinquency process: manually assembling and sending the file to counsel. | $2,300 |
| Build | Fixed price |
|---|---|
| Recurring Reports Automation (pest-control + more)Hand-assembling recurring reports and doing the analysis manually (currently in 'claw'). | $3,400 |
| Resident Engagement & Reputation WorkflowPaying outside vendors to generate good reviews and suppress bad ones, with no early-warning on unhappy residents. | $2,700 |
Fixed-price builds at AI-assisted speed — one price per build (the upper bound), and the signed price is final. The next slides walk each build; pricing options follow.
A single source of truth for maintenance spend, inside Rent Manager. We model each depot's stock — including the shared Jersey City depot — capture restock orders, and give supers a fast, bilingual way to log every pull (item, quantity, work order, unit) so cost lands on the right unit and portfolio. Each portfolio's repairs-and-maintenance spend is metered against your ~$800/unit/year benchmark; the moment a portfolio runs over its monthly allocation, it raises an alarm and routes to an additional approval. Accountability sits where you want it — at the maintenance-director and portfolio level, not micromanaging individual supers — so you finally know what's coming in, what's going out, what it was used for, and where you're over.
The headache it kills: Zero spend tracking today — Fred's #1 priority: no view of what comes in, what goes out, what it was used for, or which portfolio is over budget.
One fixed price — overruns are on the vendor.
| Build (MVP) | 17h |
| Testing & edge-cases | 21h |
A resident ticket — from Savant email, the portal, or phone — becomes a Rent Manager work order automatically: priority set (and the over-flagged 'emergencies' that aren't, downgraded, with your office able to re-flag), routed to the right person — a building super for an in-unit fix, a maintenance director for a roof job — booked on the calendar, and the tenant kept updated. Nothing re-typed by hand; your team manages the work, not the data entry.
The headache it kills: Office staff manually re-keying, re-categorizing, re-prioritizing, assigning, opening and closing every inbound ticket across ~1,600 apartments under two maintenance directors.
One fixed price — overruns are on the vendor.
| Build (MVP) | 12h |
| Testing & edge-cases | 14h |
One dashboard for the whole portfolio's utility bills, with per-building trends and automatic flags on anything moving beyond its seasonal norm. The three expensive bills this month surface the moment they post — not when the T12 finally shows the damage.
The headache it kills: Manually scanning ~150 utility bills, or only catching a spike when the T12 already shows the damage.
One fixed price — overruns are on the vendor.
| Build (MVP) | 8h |
| Testing & edge-cases | 10h |
Every license and permit tracked with its expiration, renewal lead-time, and contact — with reminders and an escalation before anything lapses, so you never lose six months reinstating a permit no one was watching.
The headache it kills: A lapsed license that takes ~6 months to reinstate because no one was watching the date.
One fixed price — overruns are on the vendor.
| Build (MVP) | 5h |
| Testing & edge-cases | 7h |
A mailed violation is read automatically, turned into a Rent Manager work order with the required remedy, assigned to the super, and tracked against the 30-day cure window through close-out with the inspector — removing the hand-keying entirely while keeping a person on the final close.
The headache it kills: Someone opening each mailed violation and hand-building the work order.
One fixed price — overruns are on the vendor.
| Build (MVP) | 9h |
| Testing & edge-cases | 11h |
When a case crosses your thresholds, the ledger and lease are packaged and routed to the lawyer assigned to that property — with one human approval before anything legal goes out. It closes the last manual gap in your already-automated delinquency process.
The headache it kills: The one un-automated step in an otherwise automated delinquency process: manually assembling and sending the file to counsel.
One fixed price — overruns are on the vendor.
| Build (MVP) | 6h |
| Testing & edge-cases | 7h |
The recurring reports you build by hand — starting with pest-control patterns per building and quarter — are pulled from Rent Manager and your vendor portals on a schedule and delivered ready to read, so you can see the real driver behind repeat issues without assembling it yourself.
The headache it kills: Hand-assembling recurring reports and doing the analysis manually (currently in 'claw').
One fixed price — overruns are on the vendor.
| Build (MVP) | 9h |
| Testing & edge-cases | 10h |
Newsletter and calendar alerts go out to residents from Rent Manager, and 15 days after move-in a satisfaction survey routes five-star responses to a public Google review and anything lower to internal follow-up — replacing the outside vendors you pay to manufacture and scrub reviews.
The headache it kills: Paying outside vendors to generate good reviews and suppress bad ones, with no early-warning on unhappy residents.
One fixed price — overruns are on the vendor.
| Build (MVP) | 7h |
| Testing & edge-cases | 8h |
An interactive preview of the platform this proposal describes — the modules below, populated with sample data, clickable end to end.
Everything is billed at the standard rate of $175/hour, as a fixed price per build. If a build runs over the estimate, that is on the vendor — the signed price is final.
One-time, owned in perpetuity. Split 50% on signing, 50% on delivery. Includes 60 days of post-delivery troubleshooting.
Lower cash up front — 25% setup on signing, then a flat ongoing monthly subscription with hosting, monitoring, and support always included. Cancel anytime.
| Build | Own it outright | Subscription (setup + /mo) |
|---|---|---|
| Inventory & Purchasing Accountability | $6,700 | $2,178 + $363/mo |
| Maintenance Work-Order Automation (intake → priority → RM) | $4,600 | $1,495 + $249/mo |
| Utility Trend Dashboard + Anomaly Flagging | $3,200 | $1,040 + $173/mo |
| License & Permit Renewal Tracker | $2,100 | $682 + $114/mo |
| Violation → Work-Order Automation | $3,500 | $1,138 + $190/mo |
| Eviction Hand-off Step (lawyer routing) | $2,300 | $747 + $125/mo |
| Recurring Reports Automation (pest-control + more) | $3,400 | $1,105 + $184/mo |
| Build | Own it outright | Subscription (setup + /mo) |
|---|---|---|
| Resident Engagement & Reputation Workflow | $2,700 | $878 + $146/mo |
Subscription: the build price carries a 30% service charge covering hosting, monitoring, and support — billed as 25% setup on signing plus a flat ongoing monthly. Bug fixes, troubleshooting, and a small monthly allowance of tweaks are always included. No fixed term; cancel anytime.
These third-party service costs are billed exactly at the provider's charge — no markup. Items marked volume-dependent scale with usage.
| Item | Est. monthly | Volume-dependent |
|---|---|---|
| AI / OCR credits (violations, receipts, reports) | $60–$180/mo | Yes |
| Data collection / portal access (utility, vendor feeds) | $25–$90/mo | Yes |
| Hosting + storage | $25–$75/mo | No |
David Laskin · PM Automations.ai · david@hyprassistants.com · proposal valid 30 days from issue