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Release Date: 09/25/2026

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Could the way you're marketing your rental properties be costing you weeks of vacancy?

In this episode of the #DoorGrowShow, Jason Hull sits down with Kori Covrigaru, co-founder of PlanOmatic, to discuss how professional listing media can help property management companies lease properties faster, reduce vacancy costs, and attract more owners.

Kori shares what he's learned from more than two decades in real estate photography, including why professional photos, floor plans, and 3D tours can make such a difference in today's competitive rental market.

They also discuss how outsourcing photography can save your team hours of driving and administrative work, allowing you to grow your portfolio without adding unnecessary overhead. If you're looking for ways to fill vacancies faster, improve your property management brand, and give your team more time to focus on growing the business, this episode is worth a listen.

You’ll Learn

[02:14] Kori Covrigaru’s Story and PlanOmatic
[04:18] Why Professional Photos Help Properties Lease Faster
[06:36] How Better Listings Attract Property Owners
[10:03] Scaling Your Business Without Adding Overhead
[12:28] How PlanOmatic Works and Integrates With Your Software
[15:30] Photography Pricing and Who Pays for It
[17:36] How AI Virtual Staging Improves Rental Listings
[23:58] Providing Photography Services Across Different Markets
[28:31] Building a Client-Focused Business Through Communication

Quotables

“But the biggest reason why it actually makes sense and there's a high ROI for our customers to use us versus what you described as properties with professional photos lease faster.” — Kori Covrigaru Pasted

“You attract who you are.” — Jason Hull 

“It's better to know that nothing is happening than to not know that something is happening.” — Kori Covrigaru

Resources

DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind

DoorGrow Academy

DoorGrow on YouTube

DoorGrowClub

DoorGrowLive

Transcript

Jason Hull (00:01)

Five, four, three, two, one. All right, we're live. Hey everybody, I'm Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow. We are the world's leading and most comprehensive coaching and consulting firm for long-term residential property management entrepreneurs. We've been doing this for over 18 years, roughly about now, and we have brought innovative strategies and optimization to the property management industry.

 

We are on a mission here at DoorGo to transform property management business owners and their businesses. We want to transform the BS or eliminate the BS, transform the industry, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, help the best property management entrepreneurs win. And we're particularly genius at three key things: rehabbing property management companies so they make more money, optimizing their growth engines so they add more doors without having to waste money on digital marketing. And we help them figure out and get their ops dialed in so they get more freedom.

 

Now let's get into the show. Alright, today's guest hanging out with me here is Cory. And Corey, say your last name for me. I'm gonna try it. Kavrigaru. That is an A. Really? What how do you say it? It's Kovrigaru. Kovrigaru. It could be Kovrigaro. It's Roman.

 

Kori Covrigaru (01:07)

That is an A. You got an A. Yeah, it's covrigaro. But you know what? It could be covrigaro. It's Romanian.

 

I don't speak Romanian. My father and his family were born in Romania. Means bagel maker in Romanian. Yeah, you nailed it. We're off to a good start.

 

Jason Hull (01:21)

Interesting. Okay. He's runs bagel you know, meets bagel maker in Romanian. Okay. All right. Very cool.

 

Yeah, my brother Bryant actually he runs a property management business. He actually was a Mormon missionary in Romania. So he speaks Romanian. So

 

Kori Covrigaru (01:37)

Wow.

 

Buona di miniatso. That means good morning. That's about, yeah, the count of 10. We can do it again. That's...

 

Jason Hull (01:40)

There you go. That's more than I ever knew. So now everybody knows. Thank you. All right, cool. So

 

so Corey is the the co founder of Plan O Matic. And

 

Kori Covrigaru (01:54)

Yes.

 

Jason Hull (01:55)

we're gonna discuss today how high quality listing media can help properties lease faster, reduce vacancy costs, and create a better experience for both owners and prospective residents.

 

Corey's going to share insights for more than two decades of building one of the nation's largest real estate photography companies and what today's property manager should know about standing out in a competitive rental market. And it has gotten tough to get leasing handled in some markets right now. They've got a lot of inventory, the market shifted, it can be difficult. So we're going to get into that. All right, cool. So

 

Corey, give us a little background on you so those that are listening can understand what how did you get into entrepreneurism and decide to be crazy like the rest of us and start a business? And like how did this lead to Planomatic? I think it was the short answer is by necessity. I realized early.

 

Kori Covrigaru (02:48)

I think it was the short answer is by necessity. I realized early on

 

that it was unemployable and in order to provide an income for myself and eventually my family, had to figure

 

Jason Hull (02:56)

And eventually my family.

 

Kori Covrigaru (02:58)

out how to start a business. So I got into Planomatic. I was an entrepreneur major at the first school. I attended SUNY Buffalo my freshman year. played soccer there and transferring to Western Michigan. They didn't have an entrepreneurship major there, but I kind of continued upon that path for myself. And then at some point,

 

Jason Hull (03:05)

Buffalo, my freshman year, I played soccer there, I ended up transferring to Western Michigan. They didn't have an entrepreneurship major there, but I kind of continued upon that path for myself. And then at some

 

point in college I met someone who had written software or decreased work plans quickly on site, started helping him with his business, and then eventually licensed that software, started my own business, brought my co-founders on board, and then eventually we started using other software, of course. That's how I kind of got into it.

 

Kori Covrigaru (03:17)

In college, I met someone who had written software to create floor plans quickly on site, started helping him with his business, and then eventually licensed that software, started my own business, brought my co-founders on board. And then eventually we started using other software, of course, but that's how I kind of got into it by happenstance.

 

Jason Hull (03:34)

I knew that you know A O B was probably not for

 

Kori Covrigaru (03:34)

But I knew that, know, J-O-B was probably not for me. And

 

that's what led me to the path I'm on. 22 years.

 

Jason Hull (03:42)

Twenty

 

two years planomatic. Very cool. Very cool. So cool. So what is Planomatic? Yeah. So Planomatic provides professional photography, floor plans, three D scans, AI virtual staging, and more services to the single family rental property management industry nationwide at speed and at scale. So that's kind of like

 

Kori Covrigaru (03:50)

Yeah. So Plan-O-Matic provides professional photography, floor plans, 3D scans, AI virtual staging, and more services to the single family rental property management industry nationwide at speed and at scale. So that's kind of like our...

 

you know, if you're familiar with EOS or traction, that's our, that's our elevator pitch. We provide professional photography floor plan, 3D scans, AI virtual for single family rental specifically. We did use to service the for sale by agent space or the traditional real estate agent that sells homes. And we actually pivoted a hundred percent to the single family rental property management industry in

 

Jason Hull (04:09)

You know, if you're familiar with EOS or traction, that's our that's our elevator pitch. We provide photography floor technology scans for single family rentals specifically. We did use to service the for sale by agent space or the traditional real estate agent that sells homes and we actually pivoted a hundred percent to the single family rental, property management industry.

 

Kori Covrigaru (04:32)

2020, 21, sort of around that time.

 

Jason Hull (04:36)

Okay, okay, got it. So three D scans, pro photography, speed, scale. So for property managers, why is it important to do this stuff well? Why can't they just send out one of their team members that's got an iPhone and just sort of wing it? Okay. Well there's there's a lot are a lot of reasons why that's not the optimal solution.

 

Kori Covrigaru (04:57)

Well, there's a lot. There are a lot of reasons why that's not the optimal solution. Now, look,

 

I'm not going to say that, you know, it's the same for every property manager and every price range and every market across the U.S. That's not the case. But generally speaking, windshield time is what really cuts into profits.

 

Jason Hull (05:05)

same for every property manager and every price range and every market across the US. But generally speaking, windshield time is is what really cuts into

 

Kori Covrigaru (05:18)

And so what we're able to do is reduce that windshield time. That saves money and makes you more efficient.

 

We also save a lot of the back office having to download, upload photos, color correct them, download them, sort them, upload them to that folio, build them, rent, find wherever your PMS is. And so we save a ton of time by being integrated with your property management software. But the biggest reason why it actually makes sense and there's a high ROI for our customers to use us versus what you described as properties with professional photos lease faster.

 

Jason Hull (05:31)

Upload photos, color correct them, download them, sort them, upload them, tab folio, building, random, wherever your PMS is. And so we save a ton of time by being integrated with your property management software. But the biggest reason why it actually makes sense and there's a high ROI for our customers to use us versus what you described is properties with professional photos leads

 

faster.

 

Kori Covrigaru (05:55)

So

 

we're

 

able to get out to your property often same day or next day and deliver those assets the day later. So that's like an average of two and a half days from order to delivery when you can have professional leasing photos up on the Zillow platform, up on apartments.com or wherever else you

 

Jason Hull (05:56)

Yeah. We're able to get out to your property often the same day or next day and deliver those assets the day later. So that's like an average of two and a half days from order to delivery and then you can have professional leasing photos up on the Zillow platform, up on Parliament.com, or where

 

Kori Covrigaru (06:11)

may advertise your single family rentals. so by reducing the windshield time and the time it actually takes to get those photos on, we can reduce the time by about 14 days.

 

Jason Hull (06:12)

else you may advertise your scene family rentals. And so by reducing the the windshield time and the time it actually takes to get those photos up, we can reduce the time by about 14 days

 

and lease that property about 10 days faster once it hits the market with those pro photos.

 

Kori Covrigaru (06:22)

and lease that property about 10 days faster once it hits the market with those pro photos.

 

Jason Hull (06:27)

So two weeks two weeks less. Two weeks less. On average it takes about two weeks from rent ready to get professional listing photos up on the portal. We can do that for you in two to two and half days.

 

Kori Covrigaru (06:30)

Two weeks less on average, takes about two weeks from rent ready to get professional listing photos up on the portal. We can do that for you in two to two and a half days. And

 

then we can also save your team time so that they're not dealing with going out to

 

Jason Hull (06:39)

And you can also save your team time so that they're not dealing with

 

Kori Covrigaru (06:42)

a property and taking photos and uploading them in the background and doing all that stuff. They can focus on tenants or maintenance issues or communicating with owners or just not have to grow your staff as fast as you grow your business.

 

Jason Hull (06:47)

tenants or maintenance or or communicating with owners or just not have to grow your staff as fast as you grow business.

 

Got it. So it this gives you leverage, especially during times where leasing gets heavy like the summer and there's an increase in workload and workflow happening, then you can just outsource this piece and get people get really somebody else handling this, which is planomatic, get get photos handled, you know, quickly and get things, you know

 

Get the property leased a lot faster. Leased a lot faster. I mean it's really at this point it's table sticks, right? In this environment especially.

 

Kori Covrigaru (07:17)

Lease a lot faster. I mean, it's really at this point, it's table stakes, right? In this environment, especially where everything

 

is so competitive, it's taking a lot more to lease a property. You actually, you need professional

 

Jason Hull (07:25)

Yeah,

 

Kori Covrigaru (07:28)

photos to compete out there. And I really, didn't even mention there is another layer to why it's important to market your properties professionally. That's because that's the first impression that potential owners that may want to hire you see online. I mean, you're dirty laundries out there, right? Like they see how you treat your existing portfolio, your existing.

 

Jason Hull (07:30)

And I I really I didn't even mention there there is another layer to why it's important to market your properties professionally, and that's because that's the first impression that potential owners that may want to hire you see online. Your your very laundry's out there, right? Like they see how you treat your existing portfolio, your existing

 

Kori Covrigaru (07:47)

and the doors that you manage, and they're going to envision their property being in that same spot on your listing page or on your website. And so

 

Jason Hull (07:47)

clients and the doors that you manage, and they're gonna envision their property being in that same spot on your listing page or on your website. Right.

 

Kori Covrigaru (07:55)

you can really elevate your brand and brand yourself professionally by hiring a professional to do your professional property manager. It's like the same reason why you wouldn't recommend an owner or manage their own property. It could work, but it doesn't make sense as far as your time value and what you value, like what's your full-time job.

 

Jason Hull (07:56)

you know, you can really elevate your brand and and and bring yourself professionally by hiring a professional to do the your professional property manager. It's like the same reason why you wouldn't recommend an owner or manage your own property. It could work, you know, it but but it doesn't make sense as far as your time value and what you got you know what's your what's your full time job, right? Let a professional go let them

 

do it better. That's kind of the way we see it.

 

Kori Covrigaru (08:16)

Let a professional do let them do it better. That's kind of the way we see it.

 

Jason Hull (08:20)

I I think that's a really good point. If you're a property manager listening to this and you're thinking, Well I could just do that myself

 

You are exactly the problem that frustrates you. These are the investors that are like, I'll just do it myself. You have to have a mindset that it makes sense to outsource to get a better quality product, that it makes sense to get an expert brought in to do expert work. And I love the idea because either you're at the top of your market and you're positioning yourself as the best and you're the best branded and you have the best photos and everything you do is the best, or you got to be the cheapest because in the middle is where you die.

 

Kori Covrigaru (08:56)

Exactly.

 

Jason Hull (08:56)

And that playing the game of being the cheapest and trying to do everything low cost is a great way to have a business that makes you miserable, that isn't fun to run, and isn't very attractive to the best clients. It's gonna attract cheapos. You attract who you are. And so if you want to position yourself mentally, and I coach a lot of clients on this, and if you want to position yourself mentally, you got to get graduate from being a cheapo to maybe a more normal type of buyer. And then you got to graduate from being a normal type of buyer to a premium buyer. And then you can attract everything that you want.

 

But if you have enough premium buyers, normal buyers, you may turn down or fire a lot of the cheapos and not even work with them. Because the people that care about having nice photos and things looking good also care about things being done well and they probably have more money to spend. They're not

 

Kori Covrigaru (09:41)

Exactly.

 

Jason Hull (09:41)

looking for the cheapest, ugliest option to just get it done. You don't want to be cheap. especially in an area that kind of reverberates across

 

Kori Covrigaru (09:45)

So, yep, I agree. You don't want to be cheap. And especially in an area that kind of reverberates across the

 

internet that everybody can see your existing clients as well as potential clients. You just don't want that to be your brand's thing. It's like,

 

Jason Hull (09:54)

the internet that everybody can see your existing, you know, clients as well as potential clients. You just don't want that to be your brand's thing.

 

Kori Covrigaru (10:03)

I'm going to cut corners when it comes to marketing your properties, for example. So that's just like the elevate your brand, kind of keep your existing owners, attract new owners. That's one component of the reason why.

 

Jason Hull (10:07)

So that's that's just like to elevate your brand, kind of keep your existing owners, attract new owners. That's one component why.

 

Yeah, I love it. I mean, nicer photos is nice, but I think for me the benefit as a business owner really is freeing up my team to focus on higher level tasks. They're not being sent out to go be a half ass photographer. So it because it's drive time, going out to do things, they could be getting stuff done, helping onboard new clients, getting the

 

things done in the office rather than just driving around taking photos. And if they're not really great at it, let an expert do it. So seems to be a no brainer. I'm a business owner

 

Kori Covrigaru (10:43)

And again, I'm a business owner too.

 

Jason Hull (10:45)

too.

 

Kori Covrigaru (10:46)

You might be able to, again, not scale your people as you scale your business. I mean, that's every entrepreneur's dream, right? It's how do I keep my overhead the same as it relates to the revenue, but increase that top line in order to generate more

 

Jason Hull (10:49)

scale your people as you scale your business. I mean, that's every entrepreneur's dream, right? So how do I keep my overhead the same as it relates to revenue, but increase that top line in order to

 

Kori Covrigaru (11:00)

profits, right? So not having that, that, overhead, that permanent W2 employee that's driving around, insured, buying gas while they're, you know, could be doing other things.

 

Jason Hull (11:02)

Not having that that overhead, that permanent W two that's driving around insured, buying gas while they're you know

 

doing other things, not doing anything at all is is

 

Kori Covrigaru (11:12)

doing anything at all is a high cost.

 

Jason Hull (11:14)

high costs. Yeah. yeah, yeah. You know, like our cars are often just sitting in the driveway, right? Not really doing a whole lot for us, and then we use it occasionally. And but in business you don't want team members, they're just sitting like a car in the driveway. You want them

 

be productive, getting stuff done and focus on the right things. And so yeah, if you have seasonal work, if photos are just something that happens occasionally, you know, or even pretty regularly, you want to be able to scale without having to just go out and hire. Hiring is one of the most costly things you will ever do. One bad hire usually costs business owners, I find, when we really dig into it, minimum 10 grand. It's 10 grand in opportunity cost, 10 grand in loss

 

money that's been spent on this team member for about three months before you figure out they're just not going to cut it. And so the less you have to get involved in the hiring piece and you can use a system with experts just when you need it, that is a lot more ideal. Even if it's more expensive to get that thing done, there you don't have that sunk cost of having a team member all the time that you're paying. Exactly. Keep it variable if you can cool. Business in general you can keep

 

Kori Covrigaru (12:20)

Exactly. Keep it variable if you can. In business in general, if you can keep it variable, keep it variable.

 

Jason Hull (12:24)

it variable

 

Yeah, you you mentioned table sticks. You're talking about the game where the it's who grabs the sticks first? No, it's kind of

 

Kori Covrigaru (12:32)

No, it's kind of like poker,

 

you know, like required to pay if you're to play the game.

 

Jason Hull (12:37)

Pay if

 

you're gonna play the game. Okay. Got it. Okay.

 

Kori Covrigaru (12:41)

You up. It's not, you know, if you're playing poker, you have to

 

ante up. If you're in property management, you have to treat your listing.

 

Jason Hull (12:47)

Got it. I'm obviously

 

a really seasoned poker pr player. Just kidding. So right, actually, you can tell me if I say it aloud, so I'm looking

 

Kori Covrigaru (12:51)

I hope I get that right. Actually, you put me totally, I say it a lot. So I'm going to look that one up afterwards.

 

Jason Hull (12:56)

at it. All right, cool. So yes, I missed the reference. All right. So very cool. So I I these are some of the benefits. How does Planomatic work? How does this how does this work? G paint the picture. Somebody signs up with you. What's the process? How are they able to leverage you and use you? How does this go?

 

Kori Covrigaru (13:17)

There are a number of ways we are integrated with AppFolio, Buildium, and RentFine. So I integrated what I mean is you register as a Planomatic client, and then you integrate with your property management software. Your portfolio then syncs with our system so you can see

 

Jason Hull (13:22)

Build DM and Redfine. So by integrating what I mean is you register as a priomatic client and then you integrate with your property management software. Your portfolio then syncs with our system.

 

Kori Covrigaru (13:33)

your properties in our system, see what's for rent, what's not for rent, what has professional photos, what doesn't, and make your buying decisions that way with one click. Order photos, order photos, order photos.

 

Jason Hull (13:36)

Rent what has professional photos, what doesn't, make your buying decisions that way with one click, order photos, order photos, order

 

photos. Yeah. We either dispatch our photography either same day or next day, go out, capture the content, have that content processed and photoshopped, etc., by our team and some tools that we use, and then we sync those assets back with your property management software so you can go ahead and with one click syndicate that property.

 

Kori Covrigaru (13:43)

We then dispatch our photographer either same day or next day, go out, capture the content, have that content processed and photoshopped, et cetera, by our team and some tools that we use. And then we sync those assets back with your property management software so that you can go ahead and with one click syndicate that property as far

 

as the marketing photos are concerned. They appear in your account ready to go, right sort order with the right captions, the right size.

 

Jason Hull (14:04)

Far as the marketing photos are concerned, they're appear in your account, ready to go, right? Sort order with the right captions, the right

 

size, etc. And so that entire process from order to delivery is average, you know, averages about two and a half days. and you don't have to download a single thing, like everything just kind of like goes the way it goes. There is another that we've just launched. Actually, this is kind of big news for us, but we've launched the ability to receive work orders now through either property meld or

 

Kori Covrigaru (14:11)

Etc. And so that entire process from order to delivery is average, know, averages about two and a half days. And you don't have to download a single thing. Like everything is kind of like goes the way it goes. There is another way that we've just launched. Actually, this is kind of big news for us, but we've launched the ability to receive work orders now through either property meld or, or

 

at folio ability and rent finds. So we can actually receive work orders from our customers, just like you order a plumber.

 

Jason Hull (14:33)

Folio ability of our device. We can actually receive work orders from our customers. Just like you order

 

a plumber to come out to the property, you order Planomatic to shoot photos, we receive that work order, we digest that order automatically, and then two to two and a half days later, you'll find those assets synced with your property management software ready to syndicate in the most ways that we work with our customers. And we do have larger owner operator customers that own their their rentals as well as manage them and those

 

Kori Covrigaru (14:38)

to come out to the property, order PlanoMatic to shoot photos, we receive that work order, we digest that order automatically, and then two to two and a half days later, you'll find those assets synced with your property management software, ready to syndicate immediately. Those are the most organized that we work with our customers. And we do have larger owner operator customers that own their rentals as well as manage them. And those are kind of like we call

 

them enterprise clients, institutional investors.

 

Jason Hull (15:04)

Clients, institutional investors,

 

Kori Covrigaru (15:06)

They integrate with us in a bit of a unique way. They directly integrate with our platform versus going through property management software because they're typically on either Salesforce or Yardi or some sort of proprietary platform. So those customers have a more direct integration with us. That's pretty much, it's really easy. Just register and go ahead and integrate. You don't have to integrate. You can also just go out and place an order and we'll be there.

 

Jason Hull (15:07)

they integrate with us in a bit of a unique way. They directly integrate with our platform versus going through property management software because we typically want either Salesforce or ERB or some sort of proprietary platform. Okay. Just register and go ahead and integrate. You don't have to integrate the just go out and place an order. Okay. Very cool. And

 

so if they place an order and you go out there and maybe the tenant

 

left something or wasn't quite ready. like there's a trash bag in the kitchen or there's something's missing or whatever. The Photoshop guys can kind of get it s that weird thing out or take care of that. It's just AI the thing and it's gone. We don't charge for something like that. We charge for object

 

Kori Covrigaru (15:44)

But as we know today, that's kind of a lasso situation. You just kind of lasso that item. We get rid of those items, and we don't charge for something like that. We charge for object removal that's

 

bigger. Like if there's a car in the driveway for some reason, or there's a big trash bin, we may charge a little extra

 

Jason Hull (16:00)

Yeah.

 

Kori Covrigaru (16:00)

for that, because that's a little more heavy. But as long as the is vacant, we can take the photos. We can clean up a little bit of a mess.

 

Jason Hull (16:03)

Got it. Okay.

 

Kori Covrigaru (16:07)

It's no big deal. We can do a lot more. can AI virtual stage images, too, but declutter.

 

Jason Hull (16:12)

Okay.

 

Cool. Got it. I I'm sure people listening to this are like, this sounds great. This sounds really cool, but what is the cost? Is that something you can tell talk about? Yeah, the cost in and right now we we do have a membership program, so it it does impact that and we do have a prepay and save, but Okay. But the cost is a la carte. You don't have to pay like this, you know, per month subscription. It's like literally you have an

 

Kori Covrigaru (16:23)

Yeah, the cost in right now, we do have a membership program, so it does impact that, and we do have a prepay and save, but the cost is a la carte. You don't have to pay like this per door per month subscription. It's like literally you have an order to place with

 

us. Great. Go on, place one order for photography only. Our minimum there is 10 photos. You can also place an order for photos and 3D tour and a floor plan.

 

Jason Hull (16:40)

place with us, great. Go on place one order for photography only. Our minimum there is ten photos. you can also place an order for photos and three D tour and a floor plan.

 

Kori Covrigaru (16:50)

I believe that photos, know, everything's like for, for 15 photos, a 3d tour and a 2d floor plan. We're talking under 300 bucks per property setting. 270. It's like off the rack, 15 photos, 3d.

 

Jason Hull (16:51)

Okay. I believe that photos, you know, everything's like for f for fifteen photos, a three D tour and a two D floor plan, we're talking under three hundred bucks. Okay. Awesome. Two seventy it's like off the rack.

 

Yeah, that's great. And this would be easily be something that you could

 

offer as part of your packages or your offerings and have the owner pay for as part of the leasing process. I was gonna backtrack and say it's free. Right. Right. You should be tweaking your owner and you should be probably marking that up for all the coordination just that you do. I mean it's transparent, but we don't really support the kickbacks or or charging more and saying, you know, tell them it was more or whatever it is, but

 

Kori Covrigaru (17:19)

I was going to backtrack and say it's free. It's free to the property manager, right? Because you should be choosing your owner and you should be probably marking that up for all the coordination, just like you would mark up in the work that you do. mean, of course, transparently, we don't really support kickbacks or charging more and saying, you know, tell them it was more or whatever it is. But yeah, this

 

is something that most property managers that we work for are starting to change their process, change their owner agreement to make sure that that owner

 

Jason Hull (17:40)

Yeah, this is something that most property managers that we work for are starting to change their process, change their owner agreement to make sure that that owner

 

Kori Covrigaru (17:49)

pays for those marketing photos and it makes sense, right? Because once that owner picks up and leaves and takes their door with them, those photos are then obsolete, right? for the property manager. it makes a lot of sense. And a lot of owners are like, yeah, of course we need professional photos to market my property.

 

Jason Hull (17:50)

pays for those marketing photos and it makes sense, right? Because once that owner picks up and leaves and takes a vote with them, those photos are then obsolete, right? So for the for the property managers. So it makes a lot of sense. And a lot of owners are are like, Yeah, of course we need fashion for this.

 

Kori Covrigaru (18:04)

It's my property.

 

Jason Hull (18:04)

Yeah, obviously.

 

And then if they can explain everything you just explained about the benefits of this, then to their clients, the then the owners will say, Yeah, no brainer. I should do this. I'll pay the extra money.

 

I'll pay and mute.

 

Kori Covrigaru (18:16)

That should be in the agreement. mean, that's something, yeah.

 

Jason Hull (18:20)

Got it. Okay, very cool. What else do people typically ask about Planomatic or what what else are am I are we missing? Those that are listening that might usually be curious about.

 

Kori Covrigaru (18:30)

I you know, I don't want to call it a silver bullet because I don't

 

know that I believe necessarily in silver bullets. Are you, are you with me on the silver bullet thing? All right, good. Just making sure. So AI virtual staging has, has provided us with significant data that shows that it works almost like a silver bullet. mean, properties with AI virtual staging just lease faster. get more showings, more, more.

 

Jason Hull (18:35)

Silver bullets? Are you are you with me on a silver bullet thing? Yeah, yeah. So AI virtual staging has has provided us with significant data that shows that it works almost like a silver bullet. I mean, yeah. Properties with AI virtual staging just lease faster. They get more showings, more

 

more applications, and it's been kind of wild.

 

Kori Covrigaru (18:59)

and it's been kind of wilder.

 

That's something that we've seen from our institutional folks. They take a lot more time to research ROI on specific products that we offer. one of the...

 

Jason Hull (19:02)

That's something that we've seen from our institutional folks. They take a lot more time

 

to research on RLI on specific products that we offer. So everybody knows kind of what staging is, right? If you're selling a home and it's usually a more expensive home, you call a company a staging company and they'll bring a big U-Haul with a bunch of furniture and they'll come and they'll drop it off and they'll put it in, and then you'll have your listing photos taken, right? Because listing photos look so much better.

 

Kori Covrigaru (19:12)

Yeah. So everybody knows kind of what staging is, right? If you're selling a home and it's usually a more expensive home, you call a company, a staging company, and they'll bring a big U-Haul with a bunch of furniture and they'll come and they'll drop it off and they'll put it in. And then you'll have your listing photos taken, right? Because listing photos look so much better with

 

furniture. Well, for the longest time, we've been able to virtually stage real estate photos. We've had to do it with a human being and that costs a lot. You know, that costs a lot.

 

Jason Hull (19:32)

furniture, well for the longest time we've been able to virtually stage real estate photos. We've had to do it with a human being and that's cost a lot, you know, that

 

costs a lot more money. But today the advances of AI and we see it all you know commercials on TV and everything, we can virtually stage and by virtual stage I mean s like take a a photo of a vacant room. Yeah. Go go to our staging vendor, a software company, click a button, choose

 

Kori Covrigaru (19:42)

But today, with the advances of AI and we see it all over commercials on TV and everything, we can virtually stage. And by virtually stage, mean, take a photo of a vacant room, go to our staging vendor, a software company, click a button, choose between

 

Jason Hull (20:00)

between various different styles for staging. Okay. And then it actually places that furniture in the image and and you and it looks like s it's scary how real

 

Kori Covrigaru (20:00)

various different styles for staging. And then it actually places that furniture in the image and it looks like it's scary how real it looks.

 

Jason Hull (20:09)

it looks. Right, yeah. And so when you have when they have properties that are are staged or virtually staged, and we label them virtually staged just

 

Kori Covrigaru (20:11)

And so when you have, when you have properties that are staged or virtually staged and we label them virtually staged just to make sure that.

 

Jason Hull (20:18)

to make sure that you've got the virtual staging in the photos. Does this show up in the three D tour or stuff like that? It doesn't show up in the three D tour. It does however show

 

Kori Covrigaru (20:25)

doesn't show up in the 3d tour. does, however, show up

 

in the photography carousel, of course. And we typically have like a before and after. It allows for the potential renter to envision their lives in that, versus seeing it as an empty box. So naturally there's been more, we've all looked for real estate before and we've clicked through properties and when the photos are bad, it's you kind of move on. Cause like you don't stuff in that mess, right?

 

Jason Hull (20:31)

Got it. I mean we have like a before and after. It it it allows for the potential renter to envision their lives. Right, they can imagine it. Versus seeing it as an empty box. So naturally they're gonna spend more we all looked for real estate before and we've clicked through properties and photos of that it's you kinda move on. Yeah, yeah. You don't withten that mess,

 

right? When it's nicer photos you stop and and so the the furniture really helps the potential rent to stop spending more time

 

Kori Covrigaru (20:53)

When it's nicer photos, you stop. so the furniture really helps the potential renter stop, spend more time on that listing

 

and eventually get more showings and more applications.

 

Jason Hull (21:02)

Sure. Yeah. I've moved into places and you know, seeing how they had it decorated before or seeing photos how they decorate it gave me an idea of, we could do something like this, or here's what I want to change. Because you're not starting with just this blank slate and trying to be creative. And so yeah, I think it helps people's imagination so they can picture their life in there. Okay,

 

Kori Covrigaru (21:23)

Yep. It just cause you to stop, you know.

 

Jason Hull (21:25)

cool. And there's you you were citing there's evidence.

 

that virtual staging significantly increases the results as well. So not just having good photos, but also good photos that are virtually staged, you're now maximizing the the return on this. And the and the virtual staging that that's

 

Kori Covrigaru (21:41)

And the virtual staging, that's really inexpensive.

 

I think it's 36 bucks for three rooms, if I'm not mistaken.

 

Jason Hull (21:46)

It's thirty six bucks for three rooms. Yeah.

 

Kori Covrigaru (21:49)

So it's like a huge ROI

 

Jason Hull (21:51)

Cool.

 

Kori Covrigaru (21:52)

to order virtual staging on top of your professional photo.

 

Jason Hull (21:54)

Sure, a lot cheaper than real staging.

 

Kori Covrigaru (21:58)

Where'd you go?

 

Jason Hull (21:59)

So yeah, got it. Very cool. anything else that we're missing about Planomatic? Sounds very cool. Yeah.

 

Kori Covrigaru (22:05)

Yeah, no, I mean, I'm again, been an

 

entrepreneur for about 22 years. We have a high focus on, on client communication and client support. So that's one thing that's like paramount for me. I always tell my team, it's better to know that nothing is happening than to not know something is happening, meaning keep the customer updated. You know, even if we don't have the resolution yet for you, like we'll figure it out or we're working on it. So when you work with us, you really understand those, that's part of our core values. really.

 

Jason Hull (22:10)

we have a high focus on on client communication and client support. So that's one thing that's like paramount for me. I always tell my team it's better to know that nothing is happening than to not know something is happening. Meaning keep the customer updated. Yeah. You know, even if we don't have the resolution yet for you, like we'll figure it out or we're working on it. So what when you work with us, you really understand those that's part of our core values. It

 

really emulates through the entire organization. So that's really important to us. Our integration, of course, is is really important and allows for

 

Kori Covrigaru (22:30)

emulates through the entire organization. So that's really important to us. Our integration, of course, is really important and allows for our customers to

 

be able to transact with us. Again, business 101, make it as easy as possible for your customers to transact with you. So we've tried to make that a reality. And then, know, we're business owners, we're a small business, just like you all are, you know, just like you are, Jason, just like our property management clients are. And we just want to...

 

Jason Hull (22:39)

To be able to transact with us, make our business one on one, make it as easy as possible for your customers to transact with you. So we've tried to make that a reality. and then you know, we're we're business owners, we're small business just like just like you all are. We're not just like you are, Jason, just like our our our property management clients are. and

 

we just wanna be successful in helping our clients make more money and and gain more market share, and and that's what we strive for every day. So we have the same

 

Kori Covrigaru (22:59)

be successful in helping our clients make more money and gain more market share. And that's what we strive for every day. So we have the same struggles,

 

but same successes that every business owner does. We're not PE-backed or VC-backed.

 

Jason Hull (23:08)

Same struggles, but same successes does with the RP backed or PC backed on P back back.

 

Got it. So I know there's a lot of people listening that are gonna think, because I hear this all the time, even with with what we do at DoorGrow, will this work in my market? I'm in a big city, will this work in my market? I'm in a small town. How do you source photographers? So before you answer that, I'm gonna share a quick word from our sponsor. So our sponsor today is Vendoroo. So if you're working with

 

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It's an AI that answers the phone. It troubleshoots with residents. It coordinates vendors. It does follow-up. It drives the work order all the way to completion. It could probably work with Plan O Matic, right? So as you add doors, you don't have to keep reinventing maintenance. Let Vendoroo build your maintenance for you. Like so many of our DoorGrow community members have already done. You focus on growing your doors. Build an AI-first maintenance department that will scale with you forever.

 

Use Vendoro. Cool. All right. So tell us how do you handle photographers? Because some people are thinking, well, this might be hard in my town. They who do they know in, you know, Podunksville, you know, wherever I'm at, you know. Or they might think I'm in a really big city and maybe photographers, there's challenges with getting good ones and they're so expensive or w whatnot.

 

Kori Covrigaru (25:01)

You hire a team to, you know, to

 

Jason Hull (25:02)

You hire a team to to you know.

 

Kori Covrigaru (25:04)

onboard, to hire, to onboard, maintain these contract photographers nationwide. That's kind of what we've

 

Jason Hull (25:09)

Yeah.

 

Kori Covrigaru (25:09)

done. we've perfected that, almost perfected that. I think one really important thing to note about us is we try to make it as simple as possible for our photographers to work with us from all the software. And it hasn't historically been that way and we're getting closer to it, but what software do they have to download and register for on our system?

 

Jason Hull (25:13)

Almost almost perfected that. Yeah. One really important thing to note about us is we try to make it as simple as possible for our photographers to work with us from all the software and and and it hasn't historically been that way. We'll get any closer to it, but what software do they have to download and register for on our system?

 

Yeah. what specifics, like how are the instructions given out? What about access to to you know these doors and and I'm not talking about just one method. It's like there are so many different methods.

 

Kori Covrigaru (25:30)

What specifics, like how are the instructions given out? What about access to these doors? And we're not talking about just one method. It's like there are so many different methods. I'm trying to key

 

box, so there's a key hidden. There's this, there's that. Call this number, get this code, right? So it's just a lot. I mean, we've been doing this since 2004. We've been in the SFR space since 2012, handling hundreds of shoots a day.

 

Jason Hull (25:41)

trying to key box so there's a key hidden there's this there's that call this number get this code right so it's just a lot I mean we've been doing this since 2004 we've been in the SFR space since 2012 handling hundreds of shoots a

 

day for larger companies and smaller companies and so there's a lot a lot of its experience of just like okay here are all the you know here are all the edge cases this is what you do in this case and also just being available for them to pay them of course enough to make it make sense but we have

 

Kori Covrigaru (25:56)

for larger companies and smaller companies. And so there's a lot of experience of just like, okay, here are all the edge cases. This is what you do in this case. And also just being available for them. You have to pay them, of course, enough to make it make sense, but we have to pay them enough

 

for the business to operate, right? So it's a very delicate, it's the hardest thing that we do is find quality photographers, educate them, onboard them, maintain them, and then keep them happy.

 

Jason Hull (26:11)

good enough for the business to operate, right? So it's a very delicate it's a har it's the hardest thing that we do is is find quality photographers, educate them, onboard them, maintain them and keep them happy. Yeah. it's

 

Kori Covrigaru (26:25)

It's as tough as it sounds. And it doesn't matter if it's a small market or a huge market. Huge markets with a lot of people have their own challenges. There's traffic, there's cost of living, it's higher. Small markets, you don't have all that, know, it's to find quality people

 

Jason Hull (26:26)

it's as tough as it sounds and and it doesn't matter if it's the small market or a or a huge market, but you huge markets with a lot of people have their own challenges. There's traffic, there's cost of living to hire small markets, you know, have all that you know, hardly fine

 

Kori Covrigaru (26:41)

in the specific industry. it's just, hire the right people to take care of our great network of planet tech.

 

Jason Hull (26:40)

quality people in the specific industry. So it's just hire the right people our great network with planetary. Yeah.

 

This is some of the magic that you've spent a lot of time dealing with. And I'm sure people that have tried going and getting a photographer, tried doing it themselves, tried editing photos, like that is just so time intensive, so much work. And if you're a business owner doing this stuff, that's the dumbest trade you could ever make. You should offload that, get that off your plate because the speed of you is the speed of the business and the team.

 

And you should calculate your time as worth the the top line revenue of the company and what that comes out to per hour. And so you should not be doing this stuff. So now another challenge that people deal with, and I don't know if there's a way your system addresses this, but there's been a lot of challenges with scammers stealing photos from people's listings, putting up other listings elsewhere, tricking people into giving money. Is there any way we can combat that through

 

Kori Covrigaru (27:37)

No.

 

Jason Hull (27:38)

the photography?

 

Kori Covrigaru (27:39)

You know, I think with general awareness around how sort of the internet works and how, and the general awareness of what AI

 

Jason Hull (27:40)

But I think with general awareness around how sort of the internet works and how to t and and the general awareness

 

Kori Covrigaru (27:46)

is capable of, I think people are more skeptical these days. I don't think everybody's just sending out checks and routing numbers and checking numbers. Cause we hear, I'll be honest, we hear less noise about it lately. And I think it's around the awareness. Historically, you know, we, we watermark photos. can watermark photos, however you, you know, property

 

Jason Hull (27:48)

skeptical these days, right? Yeah. Everybody's just sending out checks and routing numbers and 'cause we hear we hear less noise about it lately and I think it's awareness. historically, you know, we we watermark photos, we can watermark photos

 

Kori Covrigaru (28:05)

manager wants to watermark photos.

 

AI today, you can get rid of those watermarks in like a half a second, Free AI account. So man, it's changing rapidly right now. I don't have a recommendation that will just solve all of those problems. think that you have to be very careful. I would still watermark. You have to be careful where you put your images. There are applications out there like...

 

Jason Hull (28:08)

Photos with AI today, you can give rid of those watermarks. Yeah. Yeah. So man, it's it's it's changing rapidly right now. I don't have a a a recommendation that will just solve all of those problems. I think that I mean you have to be very careful. I s I would still watermark, you have to be careful where you put your images. there are there are applications out there like

 

Kori Covrigaru (28:34)

invisible watermarks that you can kind of track across.

 

Jason Hull (28:35)

invisible watermarks and you can add it. Yeah,

 

I've heard about the invisible watermarks lately. Claude and some of these tools

 

Kori Covrigaru (28:40)

Yeah.

 

Jason Hull (28:40)

are adding invisible watermarks to stuff, to text, to images, to things that are created. So people will go, this was created by AI. Here's where it came from. I think it's a matter of educating your your potential renters. I think it's a lot a lot it's you know still

 

Kori Covrigaru (28:48)

Yeah. I think it's a matter of educating your potential renters. think it's a lot of it's, know, Zillow has to make it,

 

has to educate their users, right, to make sure that people aren't just going and sending random checks out and putting it all over the listing media and all over your brochure and description. I think it's really important. If you're a renter, don't go on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. Stick to the internet listing services that are, you know, tried and true, I think.

 

Jason Hull (29:11)

stick to the listing services that are you know tried and true.

 

Kori Covrigaru (29:19)

I think that's the most important thing is like just watch where you put your listings, make sure it's reputable.

 

Jason Hull (29:20)

Think that's the most important thing. It's like just watch where you put your listings, make sure it's reputable. Very cool. Love

 

it. So, Corey, tell us a little bit about the philosophy that you try to instill with your company, with the people that are in your business, like maybe the values that that you guys espouse. Give people a feel for what the culture is like at Planomatic. We are exceptionally client for meaning, I don't like to say no.

 

Kori Covrigaru (29:41)

We are exceptionally client forward, meaning I don't like to say no to clients. I like to ask

 

more questions and I don't like giving an update without a resolution that's coming up. And I get copied on a lot. I drive my team nuts, Jason. I mean, I drive work because I'll reply to a random support ticket or response from our team. I'll just, I'll.

 

Jason Hull (30:00)

Yeah. I'll reply to a random support ticket or or response from our team and I'll just

 

Kori Covrigaru (30:08)

I'll reach out to that team member and I think there's a better way we could have handled this reply. And if I'm the customer, like, when are you getting back to me?

 

Jason Hull (30:08)

I'll I'll reach out to that team member and say, hey, I think there's a better way we could have handled this reply. If I'm the if one of the customers are like, when are you getting back to me?

 

Kori Covrigaru (30:15)

Right. And I think that's like most important again, it's, better to know, like everybody hears it from me. It's better to know that nothing is happening than to not know that something is happening. And so we have this, we have this phrase we use, we hold the client at the center of the organization, no matter what. one thing I haven't talked about recently, but I think it's really cool. And it's something that we've kind of put in place in 2020 or 2021 is we have personas.

 

Jason Hull (30:17)

And I think that's like the most important. Again, it's it's better to know like everybody hears it from better to know that nothing to not know that something is happening. So we have this we have this phrase we use, we hold the client at the center of the organization no matter what. one thing I haven't talked about recently, but I think it's really cool and it's something that we've we kind of put in place in twenty twenty twenty or twenty twenty-one is

 

Kori Covrigaru (30:37)

our customers, they're real names, right? So we started out with Emma. Emma is our enterprise client. Emma is typically a

 

Jason Hull (30:37)

percent of our customers. They're real names, right? So we start out with Emma. Emma is our enterprise client. Emma is typically

 

Kori Covrigaru (30:46)

single family rental owner operator. Emma raises money through institutional capital, whether that be publicly traded on Wall Street or private equity money or pension plans.

 

Jason Hull (30:47)

A single family rental owner operator. Emma raises money through institutional capital, whether that be publicly traded on Wall Street or private equity money or pension plans.

 

Emma is usually a customer that uses his own software and integrates directly with our platform. Emma has this National Rental Home Council, Emma Emma. So

 

Kori Covrigaru (30:57)

Emma is usually a customer that uses her own software and integrates directly with our platform. Emma has this National Rental Home Council, Emma, Emma, Emma. And then we have Paul.

 

Jason Hull (31:09)

these are your customer, you've got customer avatars so that when you are building out your products and services.

 

you are have them in mind and you know these categories of clients or buyers of your services will, you know, maybe perceive it a certain way and the product's geared towards these personalities. That's exactly right. And we we

 

Kori Covrigaru (31:27)

That's exactly right. And we, we talk about

 

Emma and Paul all day long. It's just natural. Like I'll, I'll be talking to. So Paul, Paul is when we got into,

 

Jason Hull (31:33)

Tell us about Paul. Who's Paul?

 

Kori Covrigaru (31:37)

servicing the third party property manager that manages,

 

Jason Hull (31:40)

Well you're breaking up a little bit. Say that again.

 

Kori Covrigaru (31:43)

when we, when we started servicing the third party property manager, you know, a smaller business that, that manages 50 to up to, you know, a thousand doors.

 

Jason Hull (31:45)

When we when we started servicing the third party property manager, you know, a a smaller business that that manages fifty to up to you know a thousand

 

doors, that persona was so different, and we named that persona Paul, Paul the property manager. Okay. Paul uses folio or building arm or or rent client or rent manager, right? Paul doesn't own their properties, they have clients. Paul's typically smaller, Paul's usually regional. Paul goes to the n national rental.

 

Kori Covrigaru (31:55)

that persona was so different and we named that persona Paul, Paul the property manager. So Paul uses Azzolio or Bildium or Rentvine or Rent Manager, right? Paul doesn't own their properties, they have clients. Paul's typically smaller, Paul's usually regional. Paul goes to National

 

Association of Residential Property Management conferences, NARPAM.

 

Jason Hull (32:15)

National Association of Residential Property Management Conferences. Not that

 

and and so those are important to like know what each customer wants. The real value is that we've like humanized our clients. Yeah. It's no longer client or or you know ACE property management company wants this. No, it's it's Paul. It's it's it like we have these personas, we have these images of what Paul might look like and what Emma might look like. And so it really helps the team

 

Kori Covrigaru (32:19)

And so those are important to know what each customer wants, but the real value is that we've humanized our clients. It's no longer the client or Ace property management company wants this. No, it's Paul. We have these personas, we have these images of what Paul might look like and what Emma might look like. And so it really helps the team

 

humanize the customer and realize that we're talking to human beings.

 

Jason Hull (32:44)

humanize the customer and and realize that we're we're talking

 

to human beings. These are real people not just folks behind the screen or whatever it is. Yeah, I love it. Every every small small examples of things that we've done, one of our core values is we create genuine relationships, right? Our customers. We love we love that core value. So everything that we do, it's just like the longer you're in a business, the more you realize that communication and support, how you

 

Kori Covrigaru (32:48)

real people, they're not just folks behind the screen or whatever it is. And so every small examples of things that we've done, one of our core values is we create genuine relationships, right? With our customers. We love that core value. So everything that we do, it's just like the longer you're in business, the more you realize that communication and support and how you, it's not how you

 

treat the customer when things are going well, it's how you.

 

Jason Hull (33:13)

It's not how you treat the customer when things are

 

going well, it's how you treat the customer, communicate to the customer when things aren't ideal. How you get back on track. Get the client to say, you know what? That got screwed up really, but they took such good care of me so quickly and they gave me this and they got out back for property that. That's what brings customers back more and more. It's not it's not, you know I I believe. Actually that's what keeps me buying from the same, you know, vendor or from the same board is if I'm treated.

 

Kori Covrigaru (33:16)

treat the customer and communicate to customer when things aren't ideal. How do you get back on track? You get the client to say, you know what, that got screwed up royally, but they took such good care of me so quickly and they gave me this and they got out back to the property that, that's what brings customers back more and more. It's not, it's not, you know, I believe actually that's what keeps me buying from the same, you know, vendor or from the same, or as if I'm treated

 

with respect and communicated with respect and that's what

 

Jason Hull (33:45)

Yeah, I love that. I think that's a great tip for those listening to map out your ideal customer profile or your ideal client profile. Map out the avatars that you tend to serve. There's usually a small category of clients that are the ones you're really going after that you're serving. this is true in any business. And the more clear and the more you humanize them and the more you realize what their strengths, what their challenges are, what their pains, their frustrations, their concerns are.

 

And you map this out, the better you're going to be able to do marketing, target them, create your sales presentation, scripts, pitches, whatever you're doing to be more effective and to teach your team about them so they understand these different avatars. And so yeah, we've done the same thing at DoorGro. We have very clear avatars that we target and that we focus on. And yeah, and we gear our products towards directly towards those avatars and what their challenges are. So love that. It's a great tip to share.

 

and I love the the I the the focus on relationships, which I think is is paramount. So cool. Well Corey, great stuff. Really appreciate you coming on, telling us about Planomatic. How can people find Planomatic and how can they get started? the easiest way is just planomatic.com, just like it's spelled. you can

 

Kori Covrigaru (34:59)

The easiest way is just planomatic.com, just like it's spelled. You can email me always

 

at k-o-r-i at planomatic.com. You can also find us in the marketplace on Atfolio's marketplace, Buildium's marketplace as well. We're all over Narpoem, so if you come to our show, come find us. We're usually in one of the bigger booths because we're preferred partners with Narpoem. So it's not too hard to find us. Go to our website, check us out, reach out to me. Always happy to hear from classic.

 

Jason Hull (35:13)

in this marketplace as well. We're all over Narbum. So if you come to a show, come find us. we're usually in one of the bigger booths because we're for partners with Narbum. So it's not too hard to find us. Go to our website, check us out, reach out to me.

 

Always happy to hear from class prospects as well as existing clients. Any feedback anybody has that's another things we ask for.

 

Kori Covrigaru (35:27)

Prospects as well as existing clients any feedback anybody has that's another things we ask for a hell of a lot of feedback often

 

too much But yeah easy to find and we welcome everybody

 

Jason Hull (35:36)

But yeah, easy to find. Cool,

 

awesome. Tell them that you heard about them from the DoorGro Show podcast if you see this.

 

Kori Covrigaru (35:42)

Talon, DoorGro, I've got a special coupon if you tell me you heard about us

 

from the DoorGro show. I'll hook it up.

 

Jason Hull (35:49)

Cool.

 

Awesome. We appreciate that. So that he'll give you a special deal. All right. Very cool. Well, Corey, thanks for being here. Appreciate you coming on the DoorGrow show. For those that are enjoying this or watch our show, if you've ever felt stuck or stagnant, you want to take your property management business to that next level. You've been hitting a wall. You've been frustrated for a while. You've tried different marketing channels. You feel like you're just getting sold a bill of goods sometimes. You're just you're frustrated.

 

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