The floor plan app property managers need: one walk per unit, one record per unit

What a property manager needs from a floor plan app

What you need	How PlaceAnew does it
A measured plan per unit	Every room named and measured, with the total: what flooring, paint and blinds are quoted from
Fast enough for every turnover	The plan is drawn when you finish walking the unit, which you walk anyway
A record of the unit's condition	Walk, the video of your walk lined up with the plan, plus a 3D model: move-in and move-out disputes are about what the unit looked like
Files vendors can open	A PDF report, SVG drawing, DXF for CAD and USDZ 3D model, so flooring and paint vendors can quote without a site visit
Private and offline	Tenants' homes stay on your device: scans are processed there and uploaded nowhere unless you share them
No fee per unit	Scanning, floor plans, 3D, editing, the kitchen designer with prices and exports are free

Turnovers: quote the work from the plan

Between tenants, most work is sold by the square foot: flooring, carpet, paint. Scan the unit once and every vendor gets the same PDF with every room's area and every door and window. Quotes come back comparable, and nobody needs to meet a vendor at the unit just to measure. The guide to estimating materials from a floor plan has the formulas.

Put your own numbers on it. If a scan saves one 45-minute measuring trip per turnover, at the BLS median of $33.65 an hour for property managers^[1], 40 turnovers a year is about $1,010 of your time.

A measured record at move-in and move-out

Photos are becoming the law, not just good practice. In California, for tenancies that begin on or after July 1, 2025, the landlord must photograph the unit immediately before or at the start of the tenancy.^[2] Since April 1, 2025, the landlord must also photograph it after move-out, before any repairs or cleaning charged to the deposit.^[2] Other states have their own rules; check yours.

A scan adds what photos lack: where each thing is. Walk is the video of your walk, lined up with the floor plan, so a mark on a wall belongs to a room and a wall, not to a loose photo. Scan again at move-out and you have two records of the same unit, made the same way. The step-by-step is in how to document a rental unit at move-in.

Where the unit records live

On your phone or iPad, one project per unit. PlaceAnew processes scans on the device and does not send them anywhere unless you share them. Export the PDF to your property management software or to Files to keep it with the unit's file, and send it to vendors by Mail or AirDrop.

What a scan does not replace

A scan is a measured record, not an inspection report. Keep your move-in checklist, the dated photos your state requires, and the tenant's signature; the scan ties them to a measured plan of the unit.

Questions property managers ask