What proptech actually moves NOI in a 200-unit garden community?

Question

Every vendor deck promises 30% savings. Operators who've actually deployed: what produced measurable NOI impact in the first year?

Dom Beveridge · Accepted Answer

From dozens of deployments, the first-year NOI movers are unglamorous:

1. Centralized leasing with AI triage — one leasing team across 3-5 assets, with AI handling first-touch. Payroll savings are real and immediate.
2. Smart water monitoring — leak detection pays for itself in insurance and loss prevention on garden product specifically.
3. Dynamic renewal pricing, properly governed.

Everything else — resident apps, package rooms, EV chargers — is retention story, not first-year NOI. Sequence accordingly.

Phil Kirschner · Answer

Dom's list is right. I'd add one filter: ask every vendor for three references at YOUR unit count and product type, then ask those references what broke in month seven. The graveyard of proptech deployments is full of tools that demoed beautifully at 50 units and collapsed at 200.

What proptech actually moves NOI in a 200-unit garden community?

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