Key Decision Considerations for Clients
- LRO is designed by Multifamily for Multifamily
- LRO has 5+ years production experience
- LRO fully deployed “non-sponsoring” clients
- Two large consulting firms validated model and results
- Quadratic Program Solver designed exclusively for Multifamily
- What company will bring forth the “most” in the coming years?
With LRO on site:
- High demand periods are leveraged for higher effective rents
- Uses power of computers to forecast systematically
- Stops “managing by looking in the rearview mirror”
- Proactively identifies softening market and reacts
- Discipline is added to the pricing process
- Drives consistency: makes decisions the same way, “7x52”
- Embeds corporate strategy into pricing decisions
- Corporate processes are improved
- Enhances understanding of the market
- Enforces pricing policy compliance
The LRO Forecast Model Considers
- Seasonality (based on as much as 3 years’ history)
- Recent demand level (de-seasonalized)
- Lease application lead times
- Traffic – ILS & guest cards
- Differences by lease term
- Differences by “week type” (i.e. beginning vs middle vs end of month)
- Renewal demand behavior separate from new demand
- Future supply based on expiration profile
- Early termination adjustments (skips, evictions and other lease breaks)
- Unit type granularity
The LRO Profit Optimization Model Considers
- Community exposure and lease velocity
- Demand and supply forecasts at unit type granularity
- Expiration management
- Costs include vacancy loss and make ready
- New vs. renewal demand
- Competitor rents
- Corporate strategy on concessions vs. net pricing
- Corporate strategy on renewals in up and down markets
- Amenitization