10 Benefits of a Real Estate Data Warehouse
A data warehouse stores data such as all your rent rolls, snapshots of your A/R aging data, your general ledger, proformas and such. All the leads ever received, all the visits and all the leases. And a lot more. On this page we list ten benefits of a real estate data...
The Weekly Property Operations Meeting
WEEKLY PROPERTY OPERATIONS MEETING I learn a lot from my customers, and I ask a lot of questions. One question I always ask is “How do you run your operations?” or “Do you have a weekly property operations meeting?” Many companies have a weekly...
How to Analyze Leasing Velocity
Leasing Velocity is an important metric to forecast supply, generate leads, and convert the leads to leases at the right rents. Lets take a look at an example scenario. Company Profile A multifamily developer and operator managing a portfolio of over...
Entrata and Domo Dashboards
Entrata and Domo Dashboards If you use Entrata and want to be able to visualize your data in charts, you can build your own home-grown solution, or purchase a third-party product. There are two third-party options: Use Domo with its own Domo Entrata Connector Use...
Multifamily Leasing Funnel Metrics
The leasing funnel describes how well your company converts leads into leases. This conversation between a client and I illustrates the usefulness of knowing your leasing funnel metrics. This concept is explained by Neil Bawa in this PDF available at Multifamily...
Property management dashboard design guidelines
HOW TO DESIGN A DASHBOARD THAT WILL ACTUALLY GET USED Some property management companies spend months building a single dashboard. And after the dashboard is published, it does not get used. I have seen it many times. Want to avoid this outcome? Here are property...
You want me to replicate an Excel report in Power BI?
Dashboard Project Success Factors In this post I will describe one critical dashboard project success factor; how to frame the reason for building the dashboard. At the start of every dashboard project, I listen for a few signals that can predict if the project is...
How to Calculate Cash on Cash Return
Here’s a simple illustration for how to calculate cash-on-cash return for a real estate investment. RentViewer clients who invest their own cash in real estate are interested in knowing their cash-on-cash return. The key is to separate cash inflows and outflows...