An AI tenant agent that handles 7 in 10 enquiries
The challenge
An independent lettings firm managing 386 properties with a nine-person team was drowning in tenant communications — 95–130 emails a day plus WhatsApp and web enquiries, the bulk of them the same handful of questions about rent, payments, and maintenance. Admin staff were spending five to six hours a day just triaging inboxes, maintenance requests took two to four days to be assigned, and tenants were repeatedly chasing for updates. The firm was about to hire a third administrator at £28,000 a year to cope.
The Tattvanet solution
We built an AI tenant communication agent across their shared support inbox and website chat, trained on 2,400+ historical tenant emails plus their tenancy agreements, maintenance procedures, and arrears policy. It auto-handles routine rent and payment queries, and runs a structured maintenance intake that gathers the details, categorises each job as emergency, urgent, or routine, raises a complete ticket, and assigns a contractor automatically. Strict escalation rules keep humans in control: anything involving complaints, legal language (council, solicitor, court), or payment negotiation is flagged straight to the right property manager — the AI never touches it.
The outcome
Over the first 90 days the agent fully resolved 71% of tenant enquiries, cutting human-handled emails from around 120 a day to about 35. Average response time fell from 12–24 hours to under two minutes, and maintenance jobs that previously took up to 38 hours to assign were being assigned in roughly 18 minutes — about 52% faster. Admin staff recovered an estimated 4.5 hours each per day, the planned third hire was cancelled, and the firm estimates an annual saving in the region of £54,000. The director reported a noticeable drop in complaints within six weeks.
Under 2 min
avg response time, from 12–24 hrs
~52%
faster maintenance assignment
~£54k
estimated annual saving
Result
71%
of tenant enquiries resolved by AI