Penny

AI receptionist for property managersThe property management answering service that handles the 2am leak

Tenants call at midnight, prospects call at lunch, and a new owner calls exactly once. Penny answers them all in one ring — triages the emergency, dispatches your on-call tech under your rules, and books the tour.

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This is a live line answered by Penny herself — not a recording. Hear how fast she picks up and how she handles a real conversation.

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  • Call the demo line and book an appointment — listen to her capture the who, the where, and the why without missing a beat.
  • Talk over her mid-sentence and change the time you want — she rolls with it.
  • Ask her point-blank if she’s human — she’ll give you a straight answer and keep right on booking.
Phones in property management

The calls property managers actually miss.

The 2am call from unit 4B

A leak doesn’t file a ticket and wait its turn. When a tenant’s kitchen ceiling starts dripping at 2am, the difference between a repair and an insurance claim is whether anyone picks up. Penny answers, triages, and wakes the right tech — not you.

Tour calls that ring out

A prospect calling about your vacancy has a list, and you’re not the only one on it. If the tour question hits voicemail, the showing books across the street. Penny picks up, answers the listing questions you’ve given her, and books the tour on the spot.

The owner call you only get once

An owner shopping for a manager rarely leaves a voicemail — they dial the next company on the list. One management contract is years of fees, and Penny makes sure that call lands on your calendar instead of in your missed-call log.

Messages with no unit number

An answering service that hands you “tenant called, something about water” isn’t triage — it’s homework. Penny captures the property, the unit, the symptom, and the urgency, then dispatches or books it under your rules.

Listen in

A real property management call, booked end to end.

A midnight maintenance emergency — triaged, dispatched to on-call, and booked for repair without waking the property manager.

pennyassistant.com/calls/live · 00:48
Inbound call · Bridgewater Property Group
Penny is speaking · transcribing live
Penny
Thanks for calling Bridgewater Property Group — this is Penny. How can I help tonight?
Marisol (tenant)
Hi — water’s leaking under my kitchen sink and it’s getting worse.
Penny
Let’s get that handled fast. Can I get your name, and the property and unit you’re calling from?
Marisol (tenant)
Marisol Vega. I’m in the Harper Street building, unit 4B.
Penny
Thanks, Marisol. Is water actively leaking right now — and is any of it reaching the floor or the unit below you?
Marisol (tenant)
It’s dripping fast into a pot. Nothing’s gone through the floor yet.
Penny
Okay, that’s urgent — I’m sending the leak details, your unit, and your number to the on-call maintenance tech right now. What’s the best callback number?
Marisol (tenant)
555-0184.
Penny
Got it. I can also book the follow-up repair window — tomorrow at 8 AM or 1 PM. Which works better?
Marisol (tenant)
8 AM, before I leave for work.
Penny
Booked. You’ll get a text confirmation in a minute, and the on-call tech has everything they need. We’ll see you at 8, Marisol.
Captured automatically
Name
Marisol Vega
Property / unit
Harper St · Unit 4B
Reason for call
Active leak · kitchen sink
Repair window
Tomorrow · 8:00 AM
Synced to Jobber & calendar
Do the math

What does voicemail cost you?

Plug in your own numbers — the defaults are sourced, not invented.

Default job value: $1,212 iPropertyManagement — avg. flat management fee $101.04/unit/mo (≈ $1,212 first-year revenue of one door) (as of 2022-09-07). Adjust to your numbers.

What voicemail costs you

If you miss 4 calls a week and close 30% of them at $1,212 a job, voicemail is costing you about

$6,298/month
Penny starts at $29/month — about one booked job pays for a whole year of her answering.
The playbook

How Penny handles Property management calls.

This is documentation of what she actually does — configured to your services, your calendar, your rules.

What she asks every caller
  • Name, callback number, property, and unit
  • What’s happening — leak, lockout, no heat, noise, or routine request
  • Urgency triage: is it spreading, is anyone unsafe, can it wait for morning?
  • For prospects: which listing, move-in timeline, and when they want to tour
What she books on the spot
  • Property tours and showings, against real calendar availability
  • Maintenance repair windows once the emergency is dispatched
  • Intro calls with prospective owners — flagged so you see them first
What she hands to a human
  • Active flooding, gas smells, fire, or anything threatening the building — dispatched per your on-call rules
  • Anything you’ve flagged owner-only — she warm-transfers instead of guessing
  • Callers who want a person — she hands the phone over without a fuss
After hours

Penny answers 24/7. Genuine emergencies wake your on-call tech under your dispatch rules; everything else gets captured, booked into business hours, and texted to you by morning.

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Beyond answering

One receptionist, every call handled.

Answers every call, 24/7

Penny picks up on the first ring — nights, weekends, lunch breaks, and when you’re already on the other line.

Books jobs to your calendar

She checks real availability, offers slots, and writes the appointment straight into the calendar you already use.

Captures every lead

Name, number, address, and the reason they called — logged and pushed to your CRM before they hang up.

Answers the everyday questions

Hours, pricing, service areas, “are you open today?” — Penny answers FAQs and escalates the calls that need you.

Plays nice with your stack

Books into the tools you already run on.

Appointments land in your calendar, leads flow into your CRM, and your team gets pinged — automatically, the moment a call ends.

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Property management questions

What property managers ask us.

Still curious? Penny can answer your questions too — give her a call.

That’s the call she was built for. She asks what your on-call rules need answered — what’s leaking, whether it’s spreading, which property and unit — then dispatches genuine emergencies to your on-call tech and books the rest into business hours. The 2am burst pipe gets action; the 2am “my dishwasher is loud” waits for morning.

Penny treats it like the revenue call it is. She captures the portfolio size, the property locations, and what the owner is looking for, books an intro call on your calendar, and texts you immediately — because an owner who reaches voicemail is already dialing the next company.

She’s configured on your portfolio — your properties, office hours, on-call rules, and the listing details you want shared. A tenant with a lockout, a prospect asking about pet policy, and an owner comparing managers each get the right conversation, and every message comes back with the property and unit attached.

You decide how Penny introduces herself. What she never does is pretend: if a caller asks whether she’s a real person, she says she’s an automated assistant — and then keeps working the call. A tenant with water on the floor at midnight cares that the phone got answered, not what answered it.

Yes — Penny is fully bilingual. She answers in English or Spanish, following the caller’s lead, so a Spanish-speaking tenant can report a leak at midnight in the words that come naturally.

Urgent calls get warm-transferred to you or your on-call tech under your rules. Everything else becomes a detailed message — property, unit, callback number, what happened — texted to you the moment she hangs up.

Penny’s plans run $29 to $199 a month, with 60 to 500 minutes included — a fraction of one door’s monthly management fee. Compare that to paying a call center by the minute, per agent: our answering service cost guide lays the numbers side by side.

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Penny works where the phone rings.

Stop sending customers to voicemail.

Give Penny your number and let her answer the next call. You’ll have her booking jobs before your coffee’s cold.

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