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How Halvik Property Group covers 3,400 units after hours without an answering service

Halvik Property Group manages 3,400 residential units across 41 buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul, with a maintenance team of 22 and a rotating on-call technician every night.

Industry
Property management
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Units
3,400
Property software
Connected via Lumcode
Lines
Maintenance, leasing, owners
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Challenge

The answering service took messages for every call and rang the on-call tech for almost all of them. Technicians were burning out, and genuine emergencies waited behind lockouts and noise complaints.

Solution

Callmate now answers every after-hours call, triages emergencies by the rules Halvik wrote per building, rings the on-call tech live only for water, fire, gas, heat and security, and files everything else as a work order with the unit attached.

Results

  • Result 01

    Only 8% of after-hours calls now reach the on-call technician

  • Result 02

    62% lower cost than the answering service it replaced

  • Result 03

    Median 11 seconds to connect a real emergency

Story

After hours, handled

Every call woke someone up

Halvik's answering service took a message for every call and passed most of them to the on-call technician, because it could not tell a burst pipe from a dripping tap. On a bad night the technician took fifteen calls and fixed two problems.

Rules written per building

Halvik's operations lead wrote emergency rules in plain words for each building type. Callmate follows them on every call, asks the safety questions the team chose, and rings the on-call rota live only when it should. Everything else becomes a work order, with the tenant asked for photos by text.

Neighbours and owners informed

When a leak affects the unit below, Callmate texts that tenant too, and every incident appears in the owner's weekly report.

Technicians now sleep through most nights on call, and residents get a person on the line within seconds when it really matters.

“Our on-call tech used to get woken up for dripping taps. Now the phone only rings for real emergencies, and every other call is a work order by morning.”

Halvik Property Group

Halvik replaced its answering service with Callmate in 2025.

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