Property managers are always looking for innovative ideas to reduce the costs and inefficiencies associated with managing a property. Automating the workflow is essential to operate successfully with numerous projects and tasks.
Property managers are always looking for innovative ideas to reduce the costs and inefficiencies associated with managing a property. Automating the workflow is essential to operate successfully with numerous projects and tasks.
So, how can you streamline your property management services? Like various other industries, property managers can utilize drones to maximize their return on investment significantly. The upside of adopting the use of drones is that they are not a one-trick pony.
Whether you need marketing materials, inspection data, or other critical information about your managed properties, drones can do it all.
Drones are commonly used across numerous industries for marketing due to their unique ability to provide a dynamic perspective that captures people’s attention. As a property manager, you can offer a complete picture of the property to a potential tenant interested in leasing a space.
Traditional ground-level photography offers little information and has been around forever. Imagine a client sees your listing with incredible aerial photography that shows the building and the surrounding area, including the distance to major highways, airports, parks, restaurants, attractions, etc.
Would this property catch your eye? More than likely, it will get more attention than basic photos.
This type of marketing can also be used for hotels, office buildings, or any other kind of property featured in your portfolio to manage.
A part of running a property is ensuring it's in excellent shape and operating at the highest efficiency level possible. It may sound daunting, but preventative inspections, flagging issues early on, and developing a remedy are essential to avoiding costly maintenance repairs.
Inspecting roofs, building structures, and other critical infrastructure is crucial to keep a property in shape. Before drones, this would have been time-consuming and too costly, given the challenges of traditional inspection processes. However, drones achieve image collection in minutes to hours instead of days.
Instead of driving to properties to assess issues, hiring a drone pilot for regular inspection photos or videos saves company resources and reduces bottlenecks in the maintenance workflow.
Having a visual record of properties is exceptionally beneficial for insurance purposes. If you already have this footage from inspections, it can serve as proof of a new problem when filing an insurance claim. For example, maybe a recent storm caused damage to a roof on a building you manage.
When submitting a claim, having before and after pictures creates a compelling case. Therefore, the claim’s processing time is reduced, saving time and money. With various properties to manage, the last thing you need is to waste time trying to work out an insurance claim.
The versatility of drones allows the technology to be harnessed to develop properties you are managing or future developments that your company will operate. Planning new construction developments is costly and time-consuming, but drones can help alleviate these concerns.
For that reason, the construction industry has welcomed drones with open arms due to their ease of use, function, and ability to streamline a project. A drone can be launched quickly, gather images and video immediately, and often finish the job in half the time. Aerial imagery is a powerful tool that can capture real-time data that can be used to create renderings and provide important insights into future developments.
Any renderings created are phenomenal promotional materials that property managers can use to market and build excitement for new properties.
If you are interested in utilizing drones to help grow your commercial real estate business, you may be curious about the next steps. Here at DRONEADAIR, we help connect you to the best-certified drone pilots to help you capture the data you will need to help you grow and scale your business.
Our new Enterprise platform (Coming Soon) allows you to automatically assign missions to pilots inside your organization or send mission requests to our Pro Pilots, and we will match your project with the perfect pilot for your specific needs.
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We hope you found this list of the top uses for drones in property management to be helpful! If you would like to learn about other drone applications, check out our drone industry pages below.
