Read your emergency steps
Give the resident the instructions you wrote for active leaks, including who to call and what to do while they wait.
Property management
Residents can report a repair at any hour, and prospective renters can ask about available units and book a showing. When a call involves flooding, a gas smell, fire, or no heat in freezing weather, the caller hears your emergency instructions and your on-call team is notified.
An AI receptionist for property managers answers calls and texts from residents and prospective renters, using your maintenance policies, listings, and office hours. InsertChat’s assistant takes repair requests with the unit and entry permission, books showings, answers rent payment questions from your policies, and flags emergencies such as flooding or a gas smell for your on-call team.
EXAMPLE WORKFLOW · Phone call
A resident calls at 11:40 p.m., long after your office has closed.
“Water is coming through my bathroom ceiling from the unit upstairs. Can someone come tonight?”
Give the resident the instructions you wrote for active leaks, including who to call and what to do while they wait.
Record the building, the unit and the one above it, where the water is coming in, permission to enter, and any pets.
The call is flagged as urgent, your on-call staff get an email alert, and the resident hears that someone will follow up.
Your on-call staff decide who goes out and when, and the assistant does not promise arrival times or contact vendors.
Illustrative scenario. Answers depend on your sources; actions depend on your connected tools and permissions.
Answers come from the knowledge you add. Anything on the urgent list follows the handoff rules you set.
Yes. It separates routine repairs from emergencies using the definitions you write. A clogged sink at midnight becomes a request with the unit, the problem, entry permission, and pets, waiting for your team in the morning. Flooding, a gas smell, or no heat in freezing weather gets your emergency instructions, and the call is flagged so your on-call staff get an email right away.
Not directly. It doesn’t connect to property management or work order software, so your team enters the work order. Each request arrives with the resident, unit, problem, entry permission, pets, and the full transcript on the contact in your shared inbox. Showings can be booked straight into InsertChat’s calendar or a connected Google, Outlook, Calendly, or Cal.com calendar.
The Pro plan is $98 per month. It comes with one phone number and a monthly allotment of credits, plus room for three AI assistants and three teammates. Every call draws down credits by the whole minute, so a busy winter night uses more than a quiet one. Each extra line costs $10 a month, and resident texts can carry their own charges.
Explore InsertChat’s shared workspace with Northstar Home Services, our fictional demo business.
Let your AI receptionist answer calls using your business information. Capture the request, help with scheduling, and pass the conversation to your team when needed.
Explore AI receptionistRing your team during business hours. After hours, or when nobody answers, the AI receptionist takes the call.
Explore After-hours answeringBring website chat, calls, email, SMS, and WhatsApp into one workspace. See the conversation, the customer, and what needs your attention.
Explore Shared inboxYes, where your number supports SMS. Residents text your InsertChat number, and the assistant replies in short messages, asking for the unit and the problem. Photos of a leak or a broken part go to your staff to review. Website chat works too, and residents can attach files there.
Yes. List each property’s address, unit types, and maintenance rules in the assistant’s knowledge, and it asks callers which building they live in. If your company runs separate offices with their own hours or staff, give each office its own assistant and address, up to your plan’s assistant limit.
Add your listings page as a knowledge source, or upload your rent list as a spreadsheet, and refresh it when a unit is leased or a price changes. The assistant answers rent, size, and pet questions from that source and passes anything it can’t confirm, such as a move-in special, to your leasing team.
Yes. Enter your weekly office hours and time zone; during those hours, calls ring your office. After closing, on weekends, and overnight, the assistant answers. Or ring the leasing office first and let the assistant take over after 5 to 60 seconds without an answer.
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Start with the questions you answer every day.
Add your business information, test the answers, and connect your first customer channel.