Jordan Muela
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Welcome closers! The Profitable Property Management Podcast is the show for property management entrepreneurs who don’t settle for average results. Your host Jordan Muela, Co-Founder of LeadSimple, interviews a new world-class property management entrepreneur or industry expert every week and gets them to share actionable insights to help you grow your property management empire. Whether you manage 100 units or 1000, this is the show that's going to help you see the big picture and give you the tools and tactics that you need to achieve your goals. So, if you're tired of hearing the same recycled strategies and content everybody el...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jordan Muela makes property management growth legible through detailed conversations about operating metrics, regulation, sales discipline, technology, and the costs of scale.
The Profitable Property Management Podcast turns operating decisions into candid conversations about what happens when a property management company grows.
A 99% SPAC redemption turns your scaling daydream into a practical question: what now?
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A practical look at making a property management company healthier before trying to make it bigger.
Luke Street's story centers on making a property management business stronger and more profitable per door, not just bigger. He walks through getting into real estate right after high school, the 2004 boom, the 2008 bust, and the long grind of tightening operations.
A grounded look at turning hidden property-management work into documented workflows a growing team can actually run.
Kristen Lopez lays out a practical argument for why growth puts property management teams under strain when too much of the process lives in one person’s head.
A grounded look at scale, process, and regulation in property management.
Taylor Haas treats property management as an operating business built on repetition, where familiar problems return in new forms. The strongest material follows her path from receptionist to Director of Operations and shows how that role depends on standardized responses,…
A practical look at property-management tech noise, vendor ties, and the criteria operators need.
The discussion treats property-management tech as a test of judgment: more tools, more vibe-coded products, and more vendor relationships all make the buying process noisier, not clearer.
A clear view of property management's limits, standardization, and the values that shape growth.
The episode lands on a simple constraint: property management keeps brushing up against regional limits and fragmented policy, so scale is never as clean as it sounds.
An operator-first pitch for property software that ties growth to real spending power, not just extra fees.
The discussion leans into the economics of property management software and the simple question of how to grow without turning every improvement into another hit on the property manager.
A clean exit story with real operating detail behind the door count.
This episode follows Rod Schifferdecker as he builds a Phoenix property management company inside the RPM franchise system, then sells a business that sat a little over 1,000 properties at exit and had reached about 1,200 to 1,300 when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accounts were in…
A focused look at how operational discipline and pricing choices connect to property management profit.
This 200th episode keeps its attention on the machinery behind profit in property management: financial analytics, revenue per unit, churn, expenses as a percent of revenue, and the discipline that ties those pieces together.
Short-term rental lessons from the operator side.
Chris Hermanski says Mainlander Property Management has been in business since 1981, with about 1,000 doors in Portland and 225 in Newburgh, Oregon, and roughly 95% of the portfolio is single-family.
Luke Street shares his journey from managing 700 doors to focusing on profitability and work-life balance at 600 doors.
Nicholas Cook frames Sleep Sound's work as protection first.
Dave Borden joins Jordan Moela as RentVine talks about a significant investment from MainSale Partners and a push toward a million units.
Jordan opens with a breaking story.
Kevin Ortner opens with a rough SPAC outcome.
This episode starts with a blunt idea: property management is regional, and that fact keeps a lot of the industry from standardizing what it could.
Taylor Haas traces the path from receptionist to Director of Operations.
Sean Johnson and the host trace a property management career from active operator to life after exit.
The show returns after a break.
Bob Hansen traces a 20-plus-year path from Apartments.com’s Rental Homes Plus to Home Partners of America, Second Nature, and Verifast, where he moved from operations back into sales.
Sarah Hatch says her firm at Hatch Property Management and Sales runs about 200 doors, averages $3,075 in monthly rent, and keeps 15 employees because she wants tight control rather than 800-door scale.
Dora Pinter says ServiceStar Realty is at 1,100 doors, adds about 20 a month, and loses about 10, which lets the company plan and hire without pressure.
Kristen Lopez walks through the problem of property-management growth moving faster than operations can keep up.
Gwenn Aspen says she and her husband left corporate America, bought into property management with almost no capital, and grew to about 1,500 units in Omaha by using technology, transparency, and a mailer that brought in a large response.
Tiffany Rosenbaum says Rosenbaum Realty Group in Phoenix Metroplex manages about 500 doors, has an 18-person global team, and is opening a short-term rental division.
Jordan Whalett interviews Allison DiSarro of Enterprise Bank & Trust about why personal relationships matter in property management banking, not just generic service.
Graham Robinson says Evernest manages about 14,000 homes in 30 markets across 19 states and is working toward a 250,000-unit goal by the end of the decade.
Mike Mefferd says BridgeStream Property Management reached about 1,400 units in roughly three years in Dayton, and 680 doors came through acquisitions.
Grace Doering says Findigs was built around improving the renter experience, and she explains why her own seven apartment applications made the problem feel personal.
Grant Drzyzga says Revela started in 2014 from a college-apartment maintenance problem and spent 9.2 years bootstrapped before raising a Series A from First Mark Capital and other strategic investors.
Justin Clements says PestShare is an on-demand pest control amenity built into leases, with residents using a phone-based request system and a national vendor network to handle treatment.
Bob Machado traces his start in property management to 1979, when he was 25, had just married, and took on eight homes for a Bay Area buyer who needed ten units found.
Rod Schifferdecker traces the path from build to sale.
The 200th episode focuses on data-driven process design inside property management.
Mike Lautensack says DelVal Realty and Property Management in Philadelphia now manages about 1,600 rental doors, 100 HOA clients, and roughly 35 staff, with maintenance work around $4 million a year.
PropTech noise is getting louder.
Jordan Moela talks with Marco Nelson from RentCheck about finding the next 10X product leap by starting with pain, not with surface-level feature requests.
Jordan Muela interviews Thad Tarkington, CEO of Second Nature, about regulating resident experience in property management.
Jordan Muela interviews Yoni Schmidt from Key Renter Property Management, who shares how they scaled from zero to 600 doors in a year in Oklahoma City.