Case Study
Hometown Holdings×Nanonets

From manual Rent Manager entry
to fully automated utility bill posting

Hometown Holdings manually entered utility bills from 2,500 property units into Rent Manager — a tedious, error-prone process consuming thousands of staff hours. A Nanonets agent now ingests bills from email, extracts all fields, maps vendors, and posts to Rent Manager automatically.

4,160 Hours Saved$40K NOI Increase88% Auto-Processing9/10 Satisfaction
About the customerReal Estate / Property Management
Virginia, USA · Founded 2015

Hometown Holdings, LLC is a Virginia-based property management company founded in 2015 by Dustin Morris. The company manages 2,500 property units across multi-family, single-family, commercial, and retail properties with a lean team of under 50 employees.

2015
Founded
2,500
Units
4
Property types
<50
Employees

The Problem

Hometown Holdings processes utility bills from dozens of providers across 2,500 property units. Each bill required manual data entry into Rent Manager — consuming hours of accounting staff time each month.

  • Manual entry into Rent Manager — every bill required copying invoice number, date, amount, and vendor into the system.
  • Bills arrived in varied formats across email — no standardized layout across utility providers.
  • Error-prone and time-consuming — the process was consuming 4,160+ staff hours per year.
Email
Email inbox
Email
Download PDF
Rent Manager
Open Rent Manager
Rent Manager
Manual data entry
Rent Manager
Upload PDF
Rent Manager
Verify entry
Manual process repeated per bill
2,500
Property units
4,160
Hours/year manual entry
Stack
Email
Rent Manager

Nanonets has helped us exponentially reduce time posting entries to Rent Manager. This allows us to focus on other processes with confidence that utility bills are posted quickly and accurately.

Jonathan Durham
Accounting Analyst, Hometown Holdings
Hometown Holdings

The solution

Email arrives. Rent Manager updated. Nothing else.

Nanonets replaced the manual process with one autonomous agent. The agent monitors the email inbox, extracts all required fields from each bill, maps vendors to Rent Manager IDs, and posts entries via API — with the original PDF attached and a QA step built in.

Email Received
Extract Fields
Map Vendor
Post to Rent Manager
Archive

Pipeline overview

Email inbox
Bill email received
Utility provider detected
Nanonets
Extract fields
Invoice#, amount, dates, vendor
Nanonets
Map vendor
Lookup table → vendor ID
Nanonets
QA review
Validation before posting
Rent Manager
Rent Manager API
Bill posted
Archive
Archive
PDF stored
Nanonets
Nanonets flag
Vendor unmapped
Loops back
Manual mapping
Email → Rent Manager automated · 4,160 hrs/yr saved · 88% straight-through processing

Impact

4,160
Hours saved annually
Staff time reclaimed
$40K
NOI increase
From operational efficiency
88%
Straight-through processing
Zero human intervention
9/10
Satisfaction score
Rated by Hometown Holdings
Metric
Before
After
Improvement
Entry method
Manual copy-paste
Automated API post
100% automated
Annual staff hours
4,160 hours
Near-zero
Fully reclaimed
Straight-through rate
0%
88%
Only 12% needs review
NOI impact
Baseline
+$40,000
Operational efficiency gain
Error rate
Manual errors
Automated validation
Eliminated

AGENT ANATOMY

Nanonets Agent
Autonomous action-taking
After QA step
Agent decides path and acts
Straight-through
88% of bills
Email
Bill received
billing@dominionenergy.com
Amount: $284.50 ✓
PDF attached ✓
Nanonets
Fields extracted
Invoice#DE-2024-0892
Amount$284.50
PeriodApr–May 2024
Nanonets
Vendor mapped
Vendor IDV-0041
LookupMatch ✓
Rent Manager
Rent Manager posted
Entry IDRM-84729
Status201 Created ✓
Archive
PDF archived
Path/bills/2024/05/
StatusArchived ✓
One-time setup
Vendor unmapped
Nanonets
Vendor not found
⚠ No match in lookup
Nanonets
Flagged for setup
StatusSetup needed
Nanonets
listening…
Nanonets
Manual mapping
Accounting maps vendor
Nanonets
Lookup updated → Re-process → Post
LookupUpdated ✓
Loops to post
Review needed
QA exception
Nanonets
QA flag raised
Issue detected ✗
Nanonets
listening…
Nanonets
Manual review
QueueFlagged ✗
Nanonets
listening…
Human
Data corrected
Fields corrected manually
Rent Manager
Re-posted → Archived
StatusPosted ✓
Loops to extract

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