In a traditional portfolio model, one property manager owns every task on roughly 120–150 properties end to end — leasing, arrears, inspections, maintenance, renewals — which builds strong landlord relationships but collapses fast when that PM is on leave or quits, because no one else knows the files. A pod model splits the same workload across a small team by function — a leasing specialist, an arrears and inspectio…
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Pod model vs traditional portfolio model
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