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Latchel

Summary

Latchel is an AI front office for property managers that takes maintenance requests by call, text or portal, troubleshoots them with the resident and dispatches the manager's own vendors. It also answers the office phone around the clock.

Price
Price on request
Open source
No
Category
Maintenance
Best for
Property managers of 200 to 5,000 rental units with no on-site maintenance staff

What we checked

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Latchel price and terms

Terms

Sign up without sales
PartlySome plans

Where these prices come from

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What we checked on Latchel

YesPartlyNo

What it costs for 25 unitsYes

Minimum units or minimum fee

Latchel names 200 to 5,000 rental units as its range and states plainly that smaller portfolios meet contract minimums.

Under 200Contract minimums apply. Still worth a conversation.

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MaintenanceYes

Maintenance requests

This is the core of the product: a resident reports by call, text or portal, pictures and video are gathered during troubleshooting and everything stays on the work order through to the invoice.

Photos, video and the troubleshooting transcript are attached to every work order, so the reason for a chargeback is documented before anyone has to…

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MaintenanceYes

Work orders to contractors

Latchel dispatches to the contractors you already use in the order you set, collects their invoice and can pay them from it, though the vendor also lets you switch payments off.

Vendors get paid instantly when submitting an invoice and you get to pay for invoices by credit card to rack up points.

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The booksPartly

Income and expenses by property

Repair spend is tracked against each job and property and handed over clean, but the vendor is explicit that the books themselves live in the accounting or property management system it feeds.

While actual vendor payment processing may occur through the PMS or accounting platform, Latchel helps create the clean, documented workflow needed…

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Managing for other ownersPartly

Owner portal and statements

Owners are brought into the loop where it matters, approving or declining a repair estimate from their email, but no owner statement or owner login is described.

Owners approve or decline from their inbox

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Your tenantsYes

Tenant app

Residents reach Latchel by text, portal or voice to report and follow up on repairs, and enrolled residents get a benefits page of their own; paying rent is not part of it.

Via SMS, portal, or voice, AI walks residents through step-by-step fixes and resolves issues before dispatch.

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Your tenantsYes

AI features

The AI talks residents through fixes at intake, routes the job to the right contractor, chases the appointment and the invoice, and takes voice instructions from staff and vendors.

Latchel's AI guides residents through step-by-step fixes at intake, resolving issues before a truck is dispatched.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpPartly

Sign up without a sales call

Every button on the site books a 30-minute demo, with no sign-up anywhere, though the vendor's own agreement allows for subscribing without signing an order form.

A 30-minute demo, built around how your team runs maintenance today. No commitment.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpPartly

Contract and cancelling

The length sits in each signed order form and renews itself, and during a committed term you cannot walk away early; where no period is stated it is one month.

Property Manager has no right to terminate this Agreement or an Order Form for convenience during a committed term, and remains obligated for the…

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Support

Customers reach the support team through chat inside their account, contractors have a text line, and residents use the number their manager gave them; opening hours are not published.

For the fastest response from our support team, please login to your Latchel account and use the Support Chat.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Getting your data out

The agreement gives a clear exit: ask in writing within 60 days of leaving and your data comes back in a format a machine can read, with deletion on the same request.

Data export. On Property Manager's written request made within 60 days after the effective date, Latchel will provide Property Manager Data in a…

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

United States

Latchel is a Delaware company writing its data terms around United States privacy law, and the systems it connects to are the ones US managers run

For personal information contained in Property Manager Data, Property Manager is the "business" or "controller" and Latchel is the "service provider"…

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Property types

The vendor names single homes, scattered portfolios, duplexes through fourplexes and mixed portfolios up to about 40 units, and runs a separate offer for apartment communities.

Portfolios of 200 to 5,000 doors, where maintenance runs through people on the road rather than people on site.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Still sold

live and selling: the site books demos daily, names a current release of new features and dates its agreement to August 2026.

New In the current release

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