Telecom Savings Estimator
Enter your monthly telecom spend by category and see how much you could recover. Most property management companies find 25–40% in savings once they know where to look.
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This estimate is just the starting point.
The numbers above reflect what most PMCs can save through auditing, renegotiating, and right-sizing their existing services. But there’s a second layer most operators never access: wholesale and bulk telecom procurement channels that aren’t available through standard vendor relationships. When we handle a telecom engagement, we bring both—the audit that finds the waste and the sourcing relationships that drive costs below what you could negotiate on your own.
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Where the hidden telecom costs are
Property management telecom spend is uniquely fragmented. Every property has its own phone lines, internet service, and access control systems. The corporate office has its own setup. Field staff have mobile devices. And somewhere in the portfolio, there are almost always legacy copper lines still connected to fax machines, elevator phones, or alarm panels that nobody has reviewed in years.
The fragmentation is the problem. No single bill looks unreasonable on its own. But when you inventory every service across every property—which most PMCs have never done—the total is almost always higher than anyone expected. The waste tends to concentrate in a few predictable areas:
- POTS lines that carriers keep repricing upward as they sunset copper
- Internet tiers provisioned for peak usage that never actually happens
- Auto-renewed contracts that passed their term without renegotiation
- Duplicate services left over from provider migrations nobody cleaned up
- Pass-through charges billed to properties without owner review
The savings are real, they recur every month, and most require no operational disruption to capture. In many cases, the first round of cuts—disconnecting unused lines, right-sizing tiers, consolidating plans—can be implemented within weeks. Larger moves like replacing a legacy PBX with a cloud phone system or renegotiating contracts through volume pricing take longer but deliver proportionally bigger returns.
Read the full breakdown of where PMC telecom dollars go and how to get them back →
Related resources
Printable Telecom Audit Worksheet (PDF)—A line-by-line inventory template you can print and use to catalog every telecom service across your portfolio.
How to Audit Your Property Management Operations—Telecom is one of seven areas to examine. This article walks through the full operational audit framework.
Why Your Team Won’t Tell You What’s Broken—Your maintenance team probably knows which phone lines don’t work and which internet connections are slow. Here’s how to get them to tell you.
Employee Turnover Cost Calculator—Another free tool. Find out what turnover is costing your PMC and build the business case for retention investment.