What are some annoying, repetitive tasks that on-site are always asked to do that could easily be automated?

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1 year 5 months ago #640212 by Mike Whaling
Looking for some good examples:
What are some annoying, repetitive tasks that on-site are always asked to do (either by corporate or by residents) that could easily be automated to save you the hassle?
1 year 5 months ago #640212 by Mike Whaling
Catherine Hutchins-Behringer
1 year 5 months ago #640213 by Catherine Hutchins-Behringer
Monday morning reports….
1 year 5 months ago #640213 by Catherine Hutchins-Behringer
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1 year 5 months ago #640214 by Carletta Richardson-Cheeseboro
1 year 5 months ago #640214 by Carletta Richardson-Cheeseboro
Brooke Nuber-Soldate
1 year 5 months ago #640215 by Brooke Nuber-Soldate
As someone who worked at the corporate level - yes we can pull those reports too. But we can't individually pull 100 of them AND analyze them. Easier for the 100 to deliver them and we analyze - it's just as slow to pull each report but theres 1 of me and 100 of you. We also want you to look at the reports and see what you should be aware of or working on. Also, depending on the report type and metrics, data can change over time. Sometimes you have to pull the report to get data for that day - like current queue statistics. This is a generalization. May or May not apply to your specific situation. But that's some of why I have asked for reporting to be pulled. Automating report pulls and automating some of the analysis- like highlighting important metrics that are short of goal is extremely helpful to speedier decisions. Report customizing would also be great
1 year 5 months ago #640215 by Brooke Nuber-Soldate
Vicki Hurley
1 year 5 months ago #640216 by Vicki Hurley
Pulling reports from pm software that corporate is more than capable of doing themselves.
1 year 5 months ago #640216 by Vicki Hurley
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1 year 5 months ago #640217 by Cyndi Bedwell
Printing pages and pages of reports to get information to put on a spreadsheet that is then emailed or uploaded to be viewed. All the info is already there and we kill another tree each month to do these reports
1 year 5 months ago #640217 by Cyndi Bedwell
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1 year 5 months ago #640218 by Grace Law
Cyndi Bedwell how about downloading as a pdf and deleting once down?
1 year 5 months ago #640218 by Grace Law
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1 year 5 months ago #640219 by Aleisha Parongao
1000% - Monday morning reports and AME are time consuming and unnecessary.
1 year 5 months ago #640219 by Aleisha Parongao
Casey N Aaron Enriquez
1 year 5 months ago #640220 by Casey N Aaron Enriquez
Pulling reports that RMs can easily pull, and reports that the accountants can see as well.At month end I pull almost 20 reports, they are basic repetitive reports that anyone can pull and see what is going on. But for close out that goes to accountants I am having to include preventative Maintenace, work orders, etc… stuff that is of no concern to closing out financials. This goes with a pre close and other reports that are done monthly. Doing a report that is repetitive and that anyone who has access to my property can pull and see the answers for themselves. I understand fully how important numbers are however, there would be so much stress taken off plates and more time to tackle day today issues than laying out a report anyone can see. I understand as an RM or the accounting dept doesn’t know our properties and residents like we do BUT a streamlined easy way would be helpful to all
1 year 5 months ago #640220 by Casey N Aaron Enriquez
Brian Lauro
1 year 5 months ago #640221 by Brian Lauro
Honestly, I find any onsite team dealing with invoice processing is losing a tremendous amount of valuable time.
1 year 5 months ago #640221 by Brian Lauro
Sarah Eckman
1 year 5 months ago #640222 by Sarah Eckman
Monday morning reports and pretty much every report we pull for them.
1 year 5 months ago #640222 by Sarah Eckman
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1 year 5 months ago #640223 by Jonathan Weatherford
Sarah Eckman this! Let’s see. I have to pull the conversion ratio report, the LRO pricing report, the UAD, the OPS budget variance, the projected occupancy, the charge summary, the delinquency summary, open work orders, LRO renewal report. Like it’s really too much.
1 year 5 months ago #640223 by Jonathan Weatherford
Katrisha Newsom Brown
1 year 5 months ago #640224 by Katrisha Newsom Brown
Most platforms has report scheduler. You can set those reports to deliver automatically to their email in most cases
1 year 5 months ago #640224 by Katrisha Newsom Brown
Alec Batchelder
1 year 5 months ago #640225 by Alec Batchelder
By corporate, reports when they can access the same information.When the club room is available when there’s an event calendar on the website.
1 year 5 months ago #640225 by Alec Batchelder
Colin Webb
1 year 5 months ago #640226 by Colin Webb
1 year 5 months ago #640226 by Colin Webb
Vitaliy Merkulov
1 year 5 months ago #640315 by Vitaliy Merkulov
Faxing, Emailing, and calling landlord references. One can automate it with RenterFile and get responses in 24 hours
1 year 5 months ago #640315 by Vitaliy Merkulov