FixGrid ROI — What it's worth: it pays for itself three ways

Your portfolio, your numbers

The calculator the operator drives.

You supply the assumptions — door count, rent, turnover, the tools you already pay for. FixGrid does the arithmetic and shows it. Switch the lens to see the same inputs as the site team feels them, as the owner capitalizes them, and as a compliance officer weighs the risk.

Estimate your return Illustrative · conservative defaults

Hard dollars. Hours recovered and rent recaptured — the levers your maintenance team controls.

Your inputs

Units under management250

Average rent / month$1,500

Annual turnover rate45%

Days cut per turn2.0

Minutes saved per work order5

Anchor on 5 — small enough to be unarguable, and it still compounds.

Tools FixGrid replaces2

Turns tool Inspections app COI / vendor tracker CMMS SOP tool

Maintenance techs (assumed ~1 per 100 units)2.5

Work orders / year3,285

Turns / year113

Annual value — hard leversrecurring

Stack consolidation

2 tools replaced · ~$0.50/door/mo each

~$3,000

Labor recovered

5 min × 3,285 WO/yr × $33/hr

~$9,050

Turn acceleration

2.0 days × 113 turns × $50/day

~$11,300

− FixGrid Professional

$99 base + $2 × 200 units, annualized

−$5,988

Return on cost, hard levers only

~3.9×

Every formula is visible. Defaults are conservative — sourced where a published benchmark exists, labeled where they're our estimate — and every input is yours to change. Soft levers — retention, catastrophe, compliance — are upside on top, below.

The three hard levers

Lead with the math you can see.

These are the levers where the operator controls every input and the arithmetic is transparent. The defaults are conservative on purpose — sourced where a published benchmark exists, labeled as a FixGrid estimate where it doesn't — so the number holds up in the room where budgets get approved.

LEVER 01

Consolidate the stack

One platform replaces the point tools you already pay for — a turns tool, an inspection app, a COI tracker, a CMMS, an SOP library. Replace two and the software savings alone cover about half the subscription; replace four and they cover all of it — before a single hour is saved.

net software savings = tools replaced × ~$0.50/door/mo

FixGrid estimate of typical list prices: ~$0.50/door/mo per tool; à-la-carte stack ~$2.50–$4.00/door/mo

LEVER 02

Give the team back hours

Techs spend much of the day not turning a wrench — walking, hunting for history, waiting on parts. Put the work order, the unit's history, the asset, and the parts in one place on the phone and you recover minutes on every job that compound into hours every week.

minutes/WO ÷ 60 × work orders/yr × $33/hr

Sources: NAA — 1,314 work orders per tech per year · PayScale — $20.48/hr average, × ~1.6 for benefits and payroll costs (FixGrid estimate)

LEVER 03

Get units rent-ready faster

A vacant day is the unit's daily rent, gone. The turn board exists to take days out of every make-ready. On a 250-unit property at $1,500 rent and 45% turnover, cutting two days off each turn recovers nearly twice what FixGrid Professional costs — and at the calculator's defaults it's the biggest dollar of the three.

days cut × turns/yr × (rent ÷ 30)

Benchmark: best-practice make-ready 5–7 days

For the owner & asset manager

The site team feels it in hours. You feel it in asset value.

Multifamily is valued on income, so every recurring dollar of OpEx you cut or rent you recover doesn't just save a dollar — it's capitalized into the value of the asset. That's the reframe that gets FixGrid into the enterprise budget.

Value = NOI ÷ Cap Rate

At a 5.5% cap, $1 of recurring annual NOI ≈ ~$18 of asset value.

Worked example · 250 units · 5.5% cap

Recurring NOI improvementstack + labor + turn acceleration~$23k

Asset value createdrecurring NOI ÷ cap rate~$423k

FixGrid annual costProfessional, 250 units$5,988

Value created per $1 of spendasset value ÷ annual cost~$71

Disposition / refinance

Defend your value against the buyer's PCA.

When you sell or refinance, the other side's engineer flags deficiencies to chip the price. A complete, exportable maintenance record is the rebuttal — prove the flagged items were already addressed, and negotiate from evidence instead of conceding the framing. A single avoided price-chip can be material.

CapEx & warranty

Push out replacement, capture what's covered.

Structured PM helps equipment last longer, deferring capital spend, while the asset registry holds warranty dates so covered repairs aren't paid out of pocket. Asset age plus history makes a defensible replace-vs-repair and capital-budget model — an owner deliverable, not a maintenance one.

Honesty guardrail. The multiplier is real but depends on the cap rate and on the savings being recurring and recognized. We anchor the owner number on the hard, recurring levers only — never on soft or one-time items — and let you enter your own cap rate. We don't headline a value FixGrid can't underwrite.

And the upside

Real, but harder to pin to one number.

These levers are where the bigger dollars often live — and exactly where an honest pitch refuses to promise a percentage FixGrid can't control. So we cite a published benchmark, name the mechanism, and let you decide what it's worth on your portfolio.

Keep more residentsDirectional

Maintenance responsiveness is part of how residents decide whether to renew. The resident portal — real status, photos, a resolution note, rate-the-repair — is built to make maintenance a renewal asset.

Benchmark: resident turnover costs $2,000–$5,000 for a standard unit

Avoid the expensive failureAsymmetric

The PM engine, leak logging, and utility spike-flags exist to catch the small thing before it's a water event. Industry sources commonly cite reactive repairs at several times the cost of planned work (a figure drawn from manufacturing studies) — and one leak in multifamily can reach several units at once.

Benchmark: water damage repair averages $3,362 per job (Angi)

Stay in serviceRisk

A missed inspection isn't just a fine. An expired certificate can force the elevator out of service — and an out-of-service elevator is a habitability problem you'll hear about from every upper-floor resident. Once the last inspection date is on record, FixGrid opens the work order ahead of the next due date so the inspection gets scheduled.

Fines and out-of-service rules are set by your state or city

Survive staff turnoverFriction

When a tech quits, the building knowledge walks too. In FixGrid the asset history, the shutoffs, the SOPs, and the inspection record stay put — so the next hire has the building's history on day one, and your current team stops hunting across five apps. Saved isn't findable; one platform is.

Benchmark: replacing an employee costs one-half to two times their annual salary (Gallup)

Common questions

The ROI questions, answered straight.

How does FixGrid pay for itself?

Three hard levers, each with transparent math the operator controls. First, it consolidates the software stack — one platform replaces the point tools you already pay for (a turns tool, an inspection app, a COI tracker, a CMMS, an SOP library), so replacing two covers about half the subscription on software alone, and replacing four covers all of it. Second, it gives the site team back hours — saving minutes on every work order compounds into hours every week. Third, it gets units rent-ready faster, and a vacant day is the unit's daily rent. On a 250-unit property at the calculator's conservative defaults those three add up to about $23,284 a year against $5,988 of cost — about a 3.9× return — before any softer upside like retention, avoided water events, or compliance downtime.

What's the ROI on a 250-unit property?

Using the calculator's conservative defaults — $1,500 average rent, 45% turnover, 5 minutes saved per work order, 2 days cut per turn, and 2 tools replaced — FixGrid's three hard levers come to about $3,000 in stack consolidation, $9,050 in recovered labor, and $11,300 in turn acceleration, about $23,284 a year. Against the Professional plan cost of $5,988 that's approximately a 3.9× return. For the owner, capitalizing that $23,284 of recurring NOI at a 5.5% cap rate (a FixGrid default; enter your own) is about $423,000 of asset value created — about $71 of asset value for every $1 of FixGrid spend.

How does FixGrid create asset value for an owner?

Multifamily is valued on income: Value = NOI ÷ Cap Rate. Every recurring dollar of operating expense FixGrid cuts or rent it recovers doesn't just save a dollar — it is capitalized into the value of the asset. At a 5.5% cap rate, $1 of recurring annual NOI is worth about $18 of asset value. FixGrid anchors the owner number on the hard, recurring levers only — never on one-time or risk-avoidance items — and lets the owner enter their own cap rate, so the figure is conditional and defensible rather than a guaranteed promise.

Are the ROI numbers guaranteed?

No. The defaults are conservative — published benchmarks where one exists, FixGrid estimates where it doesn't — and the calculator runs on the operator's own inputs, so the result depends on your portfolio. FixGrid leads with the hard levers, where the operator controls the inputs and the arithmetic is shown, and treats the soft levers — resident retention, avoided water events, compliance downtime, staff turnover — as directional: it cites the benchmark and names the mechanism, but never attaches a guaranteed FixGrid percentage.

Show the receipts

Where the numbers come from.

Calculator defaults and the figures on this page come from the published sources below where one exists; the rest are FixGrid estimates, labeled as such. Your actual result depends on your portfolio — which is exactly why the calculator lets you drive.

NAA — 1,314 work orders per tech per year PayScale — $20.48/hr average wage Make-ready standard 5–7 days Turnover cost $2–5k/unit Water damage repair avg $3,362 Reactive vs planned maintenance cost (manufacturing) Gallup — cost of replacing an employee HUD NSPIRE — scoring calculator

Figures are published benchmarks where linked above and FixGrid estimates where labeled: the ~$0.50/door/mo per replaced tool, the ~1.6× wage load, one tech per 100 units, and the 5.5% default cap rate (enter your own). Actual results depend on the operator's portfolio. FixGrid cost basis uses the Professional plan ($99 base + $2.00/unit over 50).

It pays for itself three ways before it ever feels like savings.