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Maintaining a family-oriented company culture does \"franda-03\"mean limiting corporate growth. Westbrook Management of Milwaukee maintains the balance with Yardi Voyager.<\/p>\n

Westbrook Management supervises about 2,000 units, including 450 units of affordable housing. Anthony Franda joined Westbrook Management four years ago to serve as the Controller and CFO of the small organization. He quickly embraced the tight-knit office community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a small, family-owned organization. Because it\u2019s small, we all wear a lot of hats. Everybody is valued,\u201d says Franda (pictured, right). \u201cI think having direct interaction with the owners allows me to see that I\u2019m having an impact and that I\u2019m valued and appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the family-owned atmosphere was great for office culture, staying small wasn\u2019t a long-term plan. Westbrook Management had the talent and will to grow. But Franda soon realized that an outdated software system limited the company\u2019s capacity.<\/p>\n

Franda attended a National Apartment Association (NAA) conference in search of a solution to the outdated software.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went to an NAA conference and saw everything that the industry was doing. Our system couldn\u2019t handle anything, really, that the industry was moving towards. I realize that we had an antiquated system. Not only that, but the software company that we were with wasn\u2019t investing in the product. They weren\u2019t updating,\u201d Franda says. \u201cI realized that we were in the wrong system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Westbrook Management thoroughly researched several software options before selecting Yardi Voyager<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Franda explains, \u201cYardi is an industry leader and they invest a lot in new technologies. The one thing that I realized is that if you\u2019re not constantly improving with all of the new technologies that are coming out, within a few years, you\u2019re going to be antiquated. I needed to find a software company that is constantly improving their processes and investing some of their profits back into the company.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ever-evolving Voyager empowers small companies to work smarter, not harder. In one platform, users can execute leases, run analytics, and access innovative resident, tenant, and investor services.\u00a0 Automated workflows and system-wide transparency promote accuracy and efficiency throughout the organization. Voyager is just what Westbook Management needed to bring operations up to speed with limited recruitment.<\/p>\n

The configurability and convenience of Yardi\u2019s single stack setup also addressed the company\u2019s growing needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust about any product that any property management company could find is within the Yardi umbrella,\u201d begins Franda. \u201cWe wanted to find a software that was all-encompassing. Yardi is one sign-in and one set of data. All of our managers and our users back in our home office can have one sign-on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Yardi umbrella includes a series of modules that further customize Voyager. Westbrook Management selected the Yardi PAYscan<\/a> module for its automated invoice processing, digital invoices, and online approval workflow.<\/p>\n

Franda reflects, \u201cPAYscan works great. The property managers are scanning the invoice in, acquiring it, coding it, and approving it. Done,\u201d says Franda. \u201cStop having the properties hand-write \u2018Approved\u2019 on the invoice and mail it to the office. It makes no sense. We\u2019re in the age of electronics.\u201d<\/p>\n

PAYscan brings Westbrook Management closer to the cost-effective and eco-friendly future of paperless storage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our storage is in the cloud now. We can access it from anywhere. I could get on this morning in Atlanta and see what they\u2019re scanning in Wisconsin,\u201d says Franda.<\/p>\n

As needs change at Westbrook Management, Franda and his team explore other products at Yardi conferences and forums<\/a>. The live-data, accuracy, and convenience of Yardi Resident Screening<\/a> caught his attention at the PHA & Affordable Housing Forum in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, we were doing a criminal background check in our own state, one out of fifty, which was permissible because most of our residents don\u2019t go out of state. We were running credit scores and doing a matrix on that. Resident Screening is almost the same price and it does all 50 states,\u201d observes Franda.<\/p>\n

He continues, \u201cMy biggest thing was that, if someone in the property across the street was evicted, before it hits the public record, they could apply at our place. We were not going to know that in the old system but Yardi Resident Screening would.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Westbrook continues to grow, the organization relies on Yardi to help it flourish. Innovative software with state of the art conveniences pave the way for efficient development.<\/p>\n

Franda says, \u201cI don\u2019t know where we will be 10 to 20 years from now but if we\u2019re not with the company that\u2019s improving and working on their products, we\u2019re going to be behind. That\u2019s why I went to Yardi.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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