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