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The quick summary

Property management AI, in one page.

The problem

Property management is a communications machine. A single maintenance request can mean 8 to 12 messages across the tenant, owner and tradie, and that's one ticket among hundreds. The hours leak in repetitive comms: maintenance, arrears, inspections, renewals and after-hours enquiries.

The promise

AI runs the predictable relaying so your team keeps the judgement. You get hours back while people still run the agency. Use the platforms you already have, PropertyMe, which claims more than 60 percent of the AU market, or Console Cloud, and layer AI on the parts that still land in your inbox.

The maintenance chain
  1. Triage: urgent or routine, owner or tenant, what's missing. (Flag urgent safety to a person at once.)
  2. Owner approval: auto-handle inside the agreed spend limit; above it, a human decides.
  3. Book a tradie from your panel, with details and photos attached.
  4. Coordinate access with tenant and tradie, then follow up to close.
Arrears: firm and friendly
  • Staged SMS: gentle day-one nudge, firmer overdue notice, then a clear serious-arrears message.
  • Tone set in advance, so it's consistent and fair for every tenant.
  • Breach notices, hardship and anything needing judgement leave the sequence for a person.
Inspections and renewals
  • Schedule routine inspections; send correct entry notices with your state's minimum notice period.
  • Trigger renewals 60 to 90 days out: confirm owner wishes, propose terms, sign before a holdover.
  • A human checks any rent-increase rules before a number goes out.
Tenant comms, privacy and your 90-day plan
  • An assistant answers routine after-hours questions; urgent, distressed or unusual goes to a person.
  • Treat tenant data as personal information under the Australian Privacy Principles. Never paste IDs or applications into a consumer chatbot.
  • Days 1-30: audit, then maintenance triage. 31-60: arrears sequence. 61-90: inspections, renewals, after-hours + your one-page rules.