Category Definition
What Is Turn Performance?
Turn performance is the discipline that turns your make-ready process into a competitive advantage. Fewer vacant days. Lower costs. Quality you can prove. Rent Ready is the platform built to run all of it.
The Cost of a Broken Turn
Every vacant day costs you money.
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avg. vacant days
RealPage Analytics, Feb 2025
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lost per day, per unit
Based on avg $2,000/mo rent
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avg. turn cost per unit
Industry range: $3.5K to $5K
The average multifamily turn takes 34.4 days. Every one of those days costs the operator $66 in lost rent. On a 5,000-unit portfolio turning 50% a year, cutting just 2 days off average turn time recovers over $325,000 annually. Speed is only half the story. Uncontrolled costs, vendor no-shows, and missed quality checks compound the damage.
Other platforms track turns. Rent Ready runs them.
The Five Pillars
Five disciplines. One platform.
Maintenance tools cover one or two. Rent Ready runs all five.
Turn Coordination
Every unit, every trade, every milestone in one live platform. Automated scheduling replaces spreadsheets, phone calls, and email chains.
Vendor Intelligence
On-time rates, cost benchmarks, and quality scores for every vendor on every turn. Data-driven assignments instead of gut calls.
Payment Acceleration
Weekly, 30-day, or 60-day payment tiers. Vendors prioritize the operators who pay fastest, and you control the lever.
Quality Assurance
Turn-specific QC checklists with pass/fail gates. Units do not go to market until they meet your standard.
PMS Integration
Native bi-directional sync with Yardi, RealPage, and Entrata. Move-out notices trigger turn workflows automatically; completion data flows back without manual entry.
A Core Principle
BYOV: Bring Your Own Vendor
Keep your existing, trusted vendor relationships on the platform with no platform fee. Fill gaps with a vetted vendor marketplace. Your vendors, your economics, on your terms.
Customer Results
Operators cutting vacant days in half.
How They Compare
Turn Performance vs. Maintenance Management
Maintenance tools (HappyCo, Property Meld, AppWork) solve a real problem. It is a different problem than turns.
Maintenance Management
Reactive repairs, one ticket at a time.
- Reactive repairs for broken equipment
- Single work orders in occupied units
- One trade at a time
- No turn-specific cost or quality data
Turn Performance
Coordinated projects, portfolio-wide.
- Coordinated multi-trade projects
- Vacant unit lifecycle, move-out to move-in ready
- Budget, timeline, and QC gates enforced
- Real-time metrics across the portfolio
FAQ
Common Questions
What is turn performance?
Turn performance is the discipline of measuring and optimizing every step of the unit turn lifecycle, from move-out to move-in ready. It covers scoping, vendor assignment, execution, quality control, and cost tracking. The goal: fewer vacancy days, lower turn cost, higher quality.
What is a Turn Performance Operating System?
A Turn Performance Operating System is software purpose-built to run the full unit turn lifecycle. It combines turn coordination, vendor intelligence, payment acceleration, quality control, and PMS integration in one platform. Rent Ready is the platform built to define this category.
How is turn performance different from maintenance management?
Maintenance tools handle reactive repairs in occupied units. Turn performance runs coordinated, multi-trade projects on vacant units against a hard deadline, a budget, and a quality gate. Different workflow, different data, different software.
What metrics define turn performance?
Average turn time, turn cost per unit, vendor on-time rate, first-pass QC rate, and vacancy cost per day. Rent Ready tracks all of them in real time and benchmarks them across your portfolio.
Why does turn performance matter for multifamily operators?
Every vacant day costs $66 in lost rent per unit. For a 5,000-unit portfolio turning 50% annually, cutting 2 days off average turn time recovers over $325,000 a year. Speed, cost, and quality compound across the portfolio.
What is BYOV (Bring Your Own Vendor)?
BYOV means you keep your existing, trusted vendor relationships on the platform with no platform fee, while also accessing a vetted vendor marketplace for trades you need to fill. A core principle of turn performance: you control your vendor economics.
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