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What is manual reporting costing you?

Put in five numbers you already know. Get back what assembling owner packages and pulling data by hand costs every year — in hours, dollars, and per unit. The math is direct labor only, and it updates as you type.

Your numbers

Units in portfolio

Properties or owner entities

Hours a month assembling owner reporting packages

hrs

Hours a month on other manual reporting and data pulls

hrs

Average loaded hourly cost of the staff doing it

$/hr

Every year, at those numbers

$12,960

in direct labor on manual reporting

Working days: 36; of someone's year, at 8 hours a day
Per unit, per year: $5.40; just to produce the reports
Hours: 288; a year, before any rework
Per owner package: $40; in labor, every month

Real, but modest

Automation may not pay for itself yet at this size. Worth revisiting as the portfolio grows, or if the hours start climbing.

Rough estimate based on direct labor only. Real figures usually run higher once error correction and delayed decisions are counted — but those are harder to estimate honestly, so they're left out here.

If that number looks familiar, the next step is an Operations Audit — one week, a short working session, and a findings doc covering where the hours are actually going and the two or three things worth fixing. Fixed fee, quoted before you commit. The document is yours either way.