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I am Michael Taros. I am the Interim Executive Director for the Housing Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Uh, Marco Frere, chief Operating Officer for the Housing Authority City Fort Lord. We have, uh, about 3,400 vouchers tax credit properties. We have approximately a little over 1500 units and we're continuing to expand our growth. I'm a big believer automation and making things simple for the agency and for employees. Because working in a affordable housing climate, you can get very mundane of the paperwork and the constant frustrations with residents not applying, not inputting their information. Correct. Yardi fixes those solutions and especially with the Rent Cafe, where over 80% of our population has a register for Rent Cafe. Our payments have been the best part. We are getting more payments. We're trying to eliminate all the paper checks and money orders by getting people online. 40% of our affordable stock is paying the rent online with Rent Cafe. The big thing also is that we've seen since ramping up Rent Cafe with centralized leasing and and so forth, our receivables got better. The receivables did get better because we have no so many options for a resident to pay their rent. Another great thing with Rent Cafe is that we were able to maximize our staff. I don't think we would be able to do a budgetarily, especially in this climate if it wasn't for Rent Cafe, allowing us to increase everyone's caseload because it's easier to manage with Rent Cafe. And we took those critical dollars and put it into that new department, so Wow. It's a really good talk. Yeah.