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AI RECEPTIONIST · PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

The AI receptionist for property management that answers leasing, triages maintenance & handles tenants 24/7.

Leasing inquiries, rent questions, the 11 PM “my heat is out.” Your AI receptionist for property management answers every tenant and owner call, triages the maintenance request, and logs it — inside AppFolio, Buildium, or your CRM.

  • Goal-driven AI agents — every lead qualified & booked
  • Security & trust built in — every caller verified, every action logged
  • 270+ platforms, 70+ languages — Follow Up Boss, kvCORE & more

One demo line · every real estate workflow

(520) 464-4492

Try:I want to see 12 Oak Street this weekend.

  • looks it up
  • resolves it
  • logs it

No signup, no sales rep — just call it.

CHANNEL
WORKFLOWQualify a Buyer Lead

Qualify the buyer, understand the need, match available inventory, and deliver a sales-ready lead and complete briefing to the assigned agent.

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LIVE CALLHD
LumiTalk AI

Hi! Welcome to Cedar & Vine Realty. I’m Ethan, the team’s virtual assistant. I can help answer questions, recommend homes, and connect you with one of our agents. How can I help you today?

WORKFLOW STEPS
1
Buyer intent identified

In progress

2
Budget uncertainty reduced into a usable range

Queued

3
Property criteria made flexible where appropriate

Queued

4
Tour scheduled

Queued

5
Assigned agent briefed

Queued

RESOLVED

Workflow completed successfully

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Qualify a Buyer Lead

Qualify the buyer, understand the need, match available inventory, and deliver a sales-ready lead and complete briefing to the assigned agent.

Buyer intent identifiedBuilds rapport while gathering qualification dataBudget uncertainty reducedUnderstands motivation, timeline, budget, financing, and decision-makersProperty criteria madeConverts vague answers into practical ranges and preferences
Works inFollow Up BossGoogle CalendarGmailTwilioCalendly+270 more
98%

Resolution rate

24/7

Always available

70+

Languages

< 5 min

Avg. handle time

270+

Platform integrations

Keep your stack. Lumi works on top of it.

No rip-and-replace — Lumi layers onto your PMS, rental portals & back office. 270+ integrations.

AppFolioBuildiumDoorLoopRent ManagerYardiPropertywareRentvineTenantCloudRentRediAvailZillow RentalApartments.comZumperRentSpreeQuickBooks logoQuickBooksTwilio logoTwilioGoogle Business ProfileZapier

The after-hours loop

Check the voicemail box. It’s the same five calls on repeat.

None of them are complicated. Each just needs someone to pick up, qualify or triage, and log it — and they land at night and on weekends, exactly when your small team is off the clock.

  1. 01
    Is the 2-bed still available?

    A prospect who'll dial the next listing in ninety seconds if they hit voicemail — every unanswered one is a vacancy day.

    leasing lead
  2. 02
    My heat's out.

    A real emergency that needs triage and a vendor tonight, not a rambling voicemail found on Monday.

    emergency
  3. 03
    The disposal's jammed again.

    A routine request that needs a work order with the unit and issue — logged, not lost in a text thread.

    work order
  4. 04
    Did my rent go through?

    A thirty-second portal question that becomes a Monday line at your desk if nobody answers it tonight.

    tenant Q
  5. 05
    I want to renew — what are my options?

    The retention call that keeps a unit occupied, if someone captures it instead of letting it slip.

    renewal

The leasing call is a vacancy day and the leak is a claim — and both wait on voicemail till Monday. A system should answer and log these the moment they ring. That’s the job of an AI answering service.

What is an AI receptionist for property management?

It qualifies renters and triages maintenance — it doesn’t just take a message.

An AI receptionist for property management answers every leasing call, tenant text, and web inquiry the moment it arrives, then does the work: it qualifies the prospect — move-in date, budget, occupants, pets — checks availability and books the showing, and intakes maintenance requests with the unit, the issue, and the urgency triaged, escalating true emergencies to your on-call vendor. It answers routine rent and portal questions from your own documents and writes everything into AppFolio, Buildium, DoorLoop, or Rent Manager as it goes. It runs 24/7 in 70+ languages, and hands the sensitive calls to a person with the whole story attached. Your PMS stays the system of record; Lumi is the worker keeping it current.

The difference tenants and owners feel

An answering service takes a message. Lumi handles it.

A voicemail or answering service

  • Takes a message and your callback number
  • Reads back the office hours and hangs up
  • Can't tell an emergency from a clogged drain
  • Logs nothing in your PMS
  • Bills you by the minute to relay it at 2 AM

Lumi

  • Qualifies the renter and books the showing live
  • Triages the leak and dispatches the on-call vendor
  • Files the work order in AppFolio with unit and urgency
  • Answers the rent question from your own records
  • Does it 24/7, in 70+ languages, for one flat rate

A message on Monday is a rented unit and a bigger repair bill. A handled call is the lease you keep — and the emergency that never became a claim.

The leasing call is just the front door

One agent for leasing, maintenance, and tenants — not just a message pad.

Answering the call is where Lumi starts. Then it keeps going — across every channel, every request type, and the PMS and portals you already run.

Every channel a tenant uses

Voice, web chat, SMS, WhatsApp, email — and an on-site AI avatar. The prospect or tenant picks up where they left off; they never repeat the unit twice.

Leasing, done end to end

Qualifies the renter, checks availability, books the tour, and logs the prospect in your PMS — a filled showing calendar, not a message slip on a desk.

Maintenance it actually triages

Captures unit, issue, and urgency; dispatches true emergencies and files the rest as work orders — proof Lumi acts on the request, it doesn't just record it.

Rent & portal questions handled

Due dates, payment status, portal help, lease and policy questions — answered from your own documents, any hour, in the tenant's language.

Renewals & reminders on autopilot

Renewal offers, rent reminders, delinquency nudges, and re-engaging cold leasing leads — outbound that quietly protects your occupancy.

Escalates the calls that wake you

True emergencies and fair-housing-sensitive cases reach your on-call person with the unit, history, and a next step already attached.

Every tenant, every language, all hours

70+ languages, 24/7 — the midnight leak and the 9 PM tour request, both handled, with no night shift and no answering-service surcharge.

Sits on top of your PMS

AppFolio, Buildium, DoorLoop, Rent Manager, Yardi — read and written where the work actually happens. 270+ tools in all.

The front desk that never mis-routes

Four kinds of calls hit your line. Lumi sorts every one to the right place.

An emergency, a routine fix, a prospect, an owner — they all ring the same number, and one voicemail box treats them all the same. Lumi reads the call the moment it lands and routes it where it belongs.

EmergencyOn-call vendor, dispatched now

There's no heat and it's 20 degrees — my kids are here.

Life-safety or property-damage — no heat, a flood, a gas smell, a lockout at night.

Triaged against your after-hours rules and the on-call plumber or HVAC tech is dispatched — the owner and the tenant both get a timestamped confirmation.

Routine repairLogged as a work order

The garbage disposal stopped working again.

A non-urgent fix that needs a paper trail, not a 2 AM truck roll.

Captured as a dated work order in your system with unit, tenant, and issue — queued for the morning instead of interrupting the on-call line.

LeasingShowing booked on the calendar

I saw the two-bedroom on Oak — is it still available?

A prospect on a closing clock, dialing the next listing if nobody answers.

Qualified on budget, move-in date, and pets, then booked straight onto the leasing calendar — before they call the unit down the street.

OwnerRouted to the manager with context

This is the owner at 14 Birch — any update on my unit?

An owner who expects to reach a human, not a queue.

Identified as an owner and routed to the right property manager with the unit history attached — never parked in the same voicemail as a repair.

No triage tree for a tenant to fight, no shared inbox for an owner to sit in. Every call arrives already sorted — dispatched, logged, booked, or routed — the moment it comes in.

No rip-and-replace

Keep the stack you already run — Lumi works on top of it.

Your PMS, your rental portals, your accounting — Lumi works inside them, not instead of them. Lumi works inside the systems independent managers actually run — AppFolio, Buildium, DoorLoop, Rent Manager, and more. It reaches past the PMS into portals, screening, and payments — 270+ tools in all, updated where the work actually happens.

AppFolioBuildiumDoorLoopRent ManagerYardiPropertywareRentvineTenantCloudZillow RentalApartments.com

Switched on from day one

The five plays every property manager runs — prewired.

Live from day one against your PMS, your listings, and your maintenance rules. Reword the qualifying questions, set what counts as an emergency, or add plays of your own.

INAfter-Hours Leasing ResponseZillow Rental · SMS
INRenter Qualification & TourVoice · AppFolio
INMaintenance Intake & TriageWeb chat · Work order
INRent & Portal QuestionsSMS · PMS
OUTRenewal & Rent-Reminder OutreachSMS · Email
+ Build a play for your next vacancy

Your doors, your math

What are missed after-hours calls costing you?

Three sliders. No email gate. This is the vacancy cost leaking out of leasing calls that hit voicemail.

Vacancy cost leaking out of missed calls

$1,728/month

$20,736 a year — roughly 346 extra vacancy days, at a conservative 8% of leasing calls that would have signed if answered fast.

And that’s before the maintenance emergencies that turn into claims, and the per-minute answering service this replaces.

Built for owners and tenants who trust you

Hard boundaries for a business owners and tenants trust.

Give an agent this much reach over renters and emergencies and the wrong guardrails become a real liability. So these four boundaries are locked in before the first call ever rings.

Fair housing, by design

Lumi puts the same qualifying questions to every prospect and never filters on protected characteristics. Anything compliance-sensitive routes to your team, and the conversation is engineered to stay fair-housing safe rather than left to a script someone might color outside of.

A real emergency always reaches a person

No heat, flooding, no power, a lockout — Lumi flags these by your definition and escalates to your on-call contact immediately, with the unit and issue attached. Nothing that can flood a unit waits in a morning queue.

Your PMS stays the source of truth

Lumi writes into AppFolio, Buildium, DoorLoop, or Rent Manager — it doesn't replace them. Every contact, showing, and work order posts where your team already works, so nothing ends up stranded in a tool no one opens.

Open every hour tenants need you

The 9 PM leasing call and the midnight leak reach a real conversation in one of 70+ languages — never a voicemail box and a next-day callback. Coverage no longer hinges on who happened to be near a phone.

Case file · independent manager, ~300 doors

One team. One quarter. After-hours stopped leaking.

~300 doors · AppFolio + Zillow Rental + sign calls · before: Monday-morning voicemail piles, per-minute answering service

Under 5 minto answer any after-hours call

leasing or maintenance, nights and weekends

−12 daysaverage vacancy per turn

prospects booked live instead of lost to voicemail

100%of maintenance logged as work orders

unit, issue, and urgency triaged on intake

1per-minute answering service, gone

replaced by one flat rate that resolves

We manage a few hundred doors with a team you could fit in one car, and the after-hours phone was killing us — missed leasing calls and maintenance voicemails nobody saw until Monday. Now every call gets answered, tours get booked while I sleep, and emergencies hit my on-call vendor the same night. It replaced a per-minute answering service that only ever took messages, and my AppFolio has never been this current.
Renee T. · Owner, independent property management company (~300 doors)

Illustrative composite from typical first-quarter results — names and figures are illustrative until our first public property management case study lands.

Objections, welcome

What property managers ask before they hand over the phones.

Which property management systems does LumiTalk work with?

It works inside the systems independent managers actually run — AppFolio, Buildium, DoorLoop, Rent Manager, Yardi, Propertyware, Rentvine, and TenantCloud among them. It creates and updates contacts, books showings, and files work orders with the unit and urgency attached. Your PMS stays the system of record; Lumi is the worker keeping it current. No rip-and-replace, and the list keeps growing — ask about yours.

Can it actually triage maintenance, or just take a message?

It triages. Lumi captures the unit, the specific issue, and how urgent it is, then acts on your rules: a genuine emergency — no heat, flooding, no power, a lockout — is flagged and escalated to your on-call person immediately, while routine requests are logged as work orders for the morning. The tenant gets a real acknowledgement and a ticket, not a voicemail into the void.

Is this built for large multifamily or for smaller operators?

For SMB and independent property managers and single-family-rental operators — the ones the enterprise multifamily platforms price out or ignore. There's no enterprise contract, no rip-out of your stack, and no minimum door count. It scales up happily, but it's designed for the manager running dozens to a few hundred units, not a 10,000-unit REIT.

Does it replace my property manager or my PMS?

Neither. It replaces the after-hours voicemail and the per-minute answering service. Your PMS stays the system of record and your team still manages owners, vendors, and the judgment calls. Lumi handles the volume — the leasing calls, the maintenance intake, the routine tenant questions — and hands anything sensitive to a person with context.

What happens with an after-hours emergency?

Lumi answers 24/7, identifies whether it's a true emergency by your definition, and escalates those to your on-call contact right away with the unit, the issue, and the tenant's details already gathered. Routine requests are logged for the next business day. Either way the tenant is heard the moment they call, not the next morning.

Can it qualify renters, and is it fair-housing safe?

It qualifies on the criteria you set — move-in date, budget, occupants, pets, and screening basics — and books the showing. It asks the same questions of every prospect and never screens on protected characteristics; the compliance-sensitive decisions stay with your licensed team. It's built to keep the conversation fair-housing safe by design, not left to a script someone might wander off.

Can it answer in other languages and on WhatsApp?

Yes — every prospect and tenant is answered in their own language, 70+ of them, across voice, text, web chat, and WhatsApp. For a building with a multilingual tenant base that means a 10 PM maintenance call handled in the tenant's language and summarized in English in your PMS for any manager to pick up.

How is this different from a traditional answering service?

A traditional answering service takes a message and bills you by the minute; Lumi resolves. It qualifies the renter and books the tour, triages and files the work order, answers the rent question — and only escalates what genuinely needs you. It's the difference between paying someone to write down a problem and having the problem handled before it reaches your desk.

How much does LumiTalk cost for a property manager?

Flat monthly pricing, sized to your door count and the channels you switch on — not a per-minute or per-message meter that punishes a busy leasing season. Solo operators and multi-property teams are scoped differently, so the honest answer depends on your setup. Book a demo, tell us your PMS and door count, and we'll put a specific number in front of you.

Guides & comparisons

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Give her the calls you keep losing after hours.

Ask if a unit’s available. Report a leak. Try to book a Saturday tour.

Open the demo and work her like a renter — ask if a unit's available, report a leak, try to pin down a weekend tour. Then book a walkthrough with your own door count and PMS, and see what after-hours is costing you tonight.

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