Real Property Management Champion

Name

Real Property Management Champion

Legal name

Property Management Business Solutions, LLC

Website

https://rpmchampion.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Real Property Management Champion is a Wilmington and Jacksonville, NC-based residential property management franchise providing tenant screening, leasing, rent collection, and maintenance services for individual rental property owners and investors across coastal North Carolina.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Residential Property Management

NAICS

Residential Property Managers (531311)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAJAMAA

Residential Real Estate Asset Management

Business & Public Services/Real Estate Services (Brokerage, Property Management)/Real Estate Asset & Portfolio Management

Keywords

• Residential property management
• Rental property services
• Tenant placement leasing
• Real estate investment analysis
• Vacant home monitoring

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Property Management Fees (Percentage of Rent): Ongoing property management services charged as a percentage of monthly rent collected. Gold program at 7.9% and Platinum program at 10.9% of monthly rent. Services include rent collection, maintenance coordination, tenant management, and financial reporting.
2. Leasing Fees: One-time fees for tenant placement and leasing services. Gold program includes 50% leasing fee. Covers tenant screening, property showings, lease preparation, and move-in coordination.
3. Property Setup and Marketing Fee: Initial setup and marketing fees for new property onboarding. The Gold program typically includes a $199 property setup fee which may be waived as promotional offer.
4. Vacant Home Protection Services: Home watch and vacant property management services for owners away from their properties. Includes scheduled home visits, security checks, maintenance coordination, and storm damage inspections. Pricing varies based on property size and visit frequency.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Real Property Management Champion provides full-service residential property management for property owners in the Wilmington and Jacksonville, North Carolina markets. Core services include tenant screening and placement, lease preparation, rent collection, maintenance coordination with a 24/7 hotline, financial reporting through an owner portal, eviction services, and vacant home protection. Management is delivered under two pricing tiers—Gold at 7.9% and Platinum at 10.9% of monthly rent—plus an investor-facing Wealth Optimizer tool for property valuation, ROI, and cash flow analysis.

Product overview

Real Property Management Champion offers a comprehensive residential property management platform with its core Residential Property Management service as the foundation, supported by the Wealth Optimizer financial analysis tool for investment optimization. Additional offerings include Vacant Home Protection for home watch services, a Realtor Referral Program, and specialized Tenant and Owner Portal modules built on AppFolio software. The company offers two pricing tiers: the Gold Management Program (7.9% of monthly rent) and the Platinum Management Program (10.9% of monthly rent), both including core services like tenant screening, rent collection, and maintenance coordination. The Resident Benefits Package adds value-added services including credit reporting via Experian RentBureau and 24/7 maintenance support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Wealth Optimizer: A proprietary financial analysis tool that provides property investors with comprehensive analysis including cash flow, ROI, appreciation, loan summaries, and investment performance reports to help optimize rental property returns.

Quantifiable outcome

• Properties rented within 30 days or one month free management (Rented in 30 Days Assurance)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• NeighborlyflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerReal Property Management Champion is a franchise location within the Neighborly family of home service providers. Neighborly is a national network of trusted, local home service professionals providing various home services. RPM Champion operates under the Neighborly Done Right Promise and leverages the Neighborly brand, technology platform, mobile app, and national marketing resources. The relationship provides franchisees with brand recognition, proprietary systems, training, and ongoing support.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Real Property Management: National franchise brand and parent system of which RPM Champion is a location. Operates 300+ franchise offices across North America under the same Gold/Platinum program structure, AppFolio-based portals, and Neighborly Done Right Promise, making it the most directly comparable business model.
• Progress Residential: Leading institutional single-family rental (SFR) manager that acquires and professionally manages rental homes. While it operates as an owner-operator rather than a third-party manager, it competes for the same SFR-tenant pool and uses comparable tenant screening, leasing, and maintenance infrastructure as RPM Champion.
• Invitation Homes: Largest U.S. SFR owner-operator with ~80,000+ homes under professional management. Comparable in providing professionally managed single-family rental product in markets like NC, though it operates an institutional model rather than RPM Champion's third-party franchise structure.
• RPM Apex: Another independently owned and operated Real Property Management franchise serving a different U.S. market. Operates under the identical national franchise system, technology stack, pricing tiers, and service standards, making it a true same-system direct peer for benchmarking.

Broad incumbents

• Greystar Real Estate Partners: Largest U.S. residential property manager with a vertically integrated platform spanning third-party management, investment, and development. Comparable in core residential property management services but operates at vastly greater scale and includes a multifamily focus beyond RPM Champion's SFR/small multifamily niche.
• Asset Living: Major third-party residential property manager serving institutional and individual owners across multifamily and student housing. Directly comparable third-party management service offering for residential rental property owners, though much larger and more diversified than RPM Champion.
• FirstService Residential: Large North American residential property management company serving condos, HOAs, and rental portfolios. Comparable as a third-party manager for residential owners, with similar full-service offerings (tenant relations, maintenance, financial reporting) but at a broader, more institutional scale.

Emerging players

• Vacasa: Tech-enabled vacation and second-home management company providing turnkey rental management for property owners. Comparable as a third-party manager offering vacancy protection, marketing across major portals, and owner/tenant portals — but serving the vacation rental vertical rather than traditional long-term SFR.

Others

• AppFolio: Property management software platform whose tenant and owner portals power RPM Champion's day-to-day operations. Acts as the underlying technology enabler for the franchise and is comparable as the SaaS infrastructure used by many residential property managers of RPM Champion's size and larger.
• Neighborly: Conglomerate parent of the Real Property Management franchise system and numerous other home-service brands (Mr. Handyman, Molly Maid, etc.). Comparable as the strategic parent providing branding, marketing resources, the Neighborly Done Right Promise, and cross-brand customer reach that RPM Champion leverages.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/RPMChampion

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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