Plotpane · Property managers and multifamily operators
Property managers and multifamily operators
Rental property photo editing built for AppFolio, Buildium and Yardi portfolios
Property managers run 40-80 unit turnovers a month across multifamily buildings, SFR rentals, HOA turnovers, and Airbnb/STR portfolio rotations — and the maintenance-tech phone shot under a yellow bulb is killing your Zillow Rentals click-through. Plotpane batch-enhances apartment photography, short term rental photography and rental listing gallery uploads at portfolio scale so every AppFolio, Buildium, Yardi Breeze, RentCafe or DoorLoop listing ships in 48 hours — one credit an image, about two minutes a frame, and the same tool doing the same job from unit #101 to unit #412.
Rental property photography built for 48-hour turnover
A 400-unit multifamily operator runs ~50 vacancies a month. At $75 per unit, that is $3,750 monthly to PlanOmatic, HomeJab, Rentvision or a local apartment photography contractor — and they cannot hit a 48h turnover SLA when your maintenance team finishes cleaning on a Friday afternoon. Plotpane replaces the photographer fee for the repeat turnover cycle: your leasing office or on-site maintenance tech uploads the post-turn phone gallery, Plotpane takes them a frame at a time — color cast and exposure on one render, clutter or perspective on the next — and returns marketing-grade JPGs at about 2.4K the same day. Keep the human photographer for the initial lease-up shoot; use Plotpane for every re-list after.
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Apartment photography that stays consistent from unit to unit
A multifamily building with 120 units of the same floor plan needs one thing the photographer-service model cannot deliver: output that looks the same across every vacancy. Plotpane does not get there by saving anything — there are no saved, custom or brand presets, and nothing carries between sessions. It gets there because the same tool does the same job every time: Auto Enhance lands white balance, exposure and color in the same place on unit #101 as on unit #412, even when three different maintenance techs shoot them on three different phones. NARPM members running mixed SFR + multifamily portfolios apply one style across a whole batch, so the Zillow Rentals gallery stays visually consistent across a 400-home SFR portfolio.
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Short term rental photography that ships Airbnb-ready
Airbnb's published minimum is 1024x683 px; Plotpane exports at about 2.4K, so you clear it comfortably. Hosts rotating STR portfolios — Evolve, Vacasa, or independent — need photos refreshed every season, after every deep clean, and after every soft-goods swap. Short term rental photography at scale is an editing problem, not a photographer problem: you already own the property, you already shot it, you just need seasonal re-edits (summer bright vs winter warm) without re-hiring. Plotpane handles Airbnb listing photos, VRBO galleries and Booking.com hero shots from one export — 5+ photos per listing, landscape orientation, and a file well past every published minimum.
Airbnb minimum 1024x683 — Plotpane exports a JPEG at about 2.4K, comfortably over spec
Zillow Rentals (1280x960, <2MB) — one export covers it
Apartments.com (1024x768, optimized) — the same file clears it
AppFolio, Buildium, Yardi Breeze, RentCafe, DoorLoop, Propertyware, Rent Manager — you upload the JPEG yourself
Fair Housing, Section 8 and NARPM-aligned by design
HUD's Fair Housing Act (FHA) advertising rules regulate listing copy — not photo enhancement. Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program compliance lives in your tenant screening flow, not your gallery. State-specific tenant screening rules (California AB 2785, New York FHA preemption, Texas Property Code 92) govern what you ask applicants, not how you light a kitchen. Plotpane never alters accessibility features, unit dimensions, structural elements, or fixed appliances — only lighting, clutter, color cast and perspective. NARPM members and Section 8 landlords keep a clean compliance surface because the XMP disclosure metadata Plotpane embeds in every export declares 'AI-enhanced lighting and color' on the file itself — a dated, auditable record in your own archive. A screenshot drops it, and AppFolio, Zillow Rentals and Apartments.com all re-encode on upload, so keep the file you downloaded.
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Batch workflow for turnover photography at portfolio scale
Upload the turnover gallery for unit #101, #102 and #103 in one drag — five photos at once on Starter, twenty-five on Pro, a hundred on Agency. Each frame is its own render at one credit and about two minutes, so the batch runs unattended: Auto Enhance for the yellow bulb color cast off the maintenance-tech iPhone, Clutter Removal for post-move-out debris, Lawn & Pool Revive for the courtyard hero. Download the finished set as a ZIP on Pro or Agency, then load the JPGs into AppFolio, Buildium, Yardi Breeze, Rent Manager, RentCafe, Propertyware or DoorLoop yourself — there is no API, no connector and no feed push, but also no Photoshop license, no per-unit photographer invoice and no coordination with a third-party studio. Rental property photography stops being a calendar problem and becomes a upload-and-done problem.
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Local questions, answered
Does this work for AppFolio, Buildium, Yardi Breeze, Rent Manager and RentCafe?+
It works alongside them, not inside them: there is no API, no connector and no feed push, so you download the enhanced JPG and upload it like any other photo. That is rarely an obstacle, because all of them ingest an ordinary JPEG (AppFolio and RentCafe accept 1920x1440, Buildium 1600x1200, Yardi Breeze up to 2048px long edge) and Plotpane returns a JPEG at quality 92 at about 2.4K, which clears every one of those numbers. Drop it into the unit's Property Photos tab and the syndication to Zillow Rentals, Apartments.com, Rent.com, Trulia Rent and Facebook Marketplace Rentals carries the updated gallery automatically.
Are Airbnb photo requirements handled automatically?+
The resolution side is, yes. Airbnb's published minimum is 1024x683 pixels with a landscape orientation preference and 5+ photos recommended across multiple rooms. Plotpane returns a JPEG at about 2.4K, well over spec, framed the way you shot it — so shoot landscape and it comes back landscape. The same export works for VRBO, Booking.com, and your Evolve or Vacasa distribution partner without re-sizing.
Is this compliant with HUD Fair Housing and Section 8 advertising rules?+
Yes. HUD's Fair Housing Act advertising rules apply to listing copy — protected-class language, 'adults only' phrasing, 'no children' — not to photo processing. Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher compliance lives in your screening workflow, not the gallery. Plotpane never alters accessibility features or unit dimensions, and every export ships with XMP disclosure metadata declaring AI-enhanced lighting, so the copy you keep is auditable — the portals re-encode on upload and strip it.
How fast is a full 40-unit turnover batch?+
Every frame is its own render at about two minutes, measured, and batches run five at a time on Starter, twenty-five on Pro and a hundred on Agency. A 40-unit turnover at 8-15 photos per unit is 400-600 frames, which is a full month of Agency credits, so in practice you run the frames that are actually wrong rather than the whole gallery. Done that way a vacancy that closes Friday is comfortably re-listed Monday morning on Zillow Rentals and Apartments.com.
Can we make unit #101 and unit #412 look the same?+
Up to a point, and not by saving anything — there are no saved, custom or brand presets in Plotpane, nothing is stored between sessions and there are no team seats to share it with. Consistency comes from the tool behaving the same way every time: run Auto Enhance across the building and white balance, exposure and color land in the same place on every unit, even when three maintenance techs shoot on three phones over three years. One style across a batch and the set comes back matched.
What about SFR rental portfolios with 400 separate addresses?+
Same workflow, no bookkeeping. Upload the turnover gallery for 1234 Oak St, run the tool the frames actually need, export. The next turnover on that address 18 months later is a fresh upload — nothing is remembered, so keep the earlier files and run the same tool if you want the gallery to match across tenancy cycles, which is what matters for rent-growth comparables on Zillow Rentals and Rent.com.
Pricing
One credit per image. Every tool, every plan.
Three plans. Every tool unlocked on all of them. Every render unmarked, standard or high resolution, cancel anytime.
Every plan starts with 3 free renders. No card until you subscribe.
Starter
For the solo agent shooting their own listings.
$39/month
billed yearly
40 credits monthly
40 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Every tool, no tier gating
Standard output ~2.4K, or ~4.7K for a second credit
That is the whole pricing model. No per-tool rates, no seat maths, nothing to negotiate. We are not SOC 2 certified and there is no SSO, private deployment or API — if you need those to buy, better you know now than after a call.
Starter
1
listings a month
Pro
4
listings a month
Agency
16
listings a month
Questions
The usual questions, answered directly.
No. Midjourney and DALL-E invent scenes from text prompts — beautiful for art, disqualifying for a listing. Plotpane is a structure-preserving pipeline: your room geometry, windows, and floor plan stay exact. We stage, re-light, swap skies, declutter, and enhance your actual photo. No hallucinated architecture, no invented rooms.
BoxBrownie and Styldod are human-edit services: you upload, a retoucher works overnight, you get a result in 24–48 hours at $2–$32 per image per treatment. They also sell things we do not have at all — floor plans, renderings, item removal by a person who can ask you what you meant. Plotpane is one machine pass: you pick one of seven tools, and the image comes back in about two minutes for one credit, whichever tool you picked, on a flat monthly subscription. Stacking two treatments on one photo means running it twice.
Yes, when disclosed. NAR guidelines, California AB 723, and REBNY Rule 3.3 all allow virtually staged photos provided the listing discloses them. Every Plotpane export embeds invisible XMP disclosure metadata so the staging record travels with the file. You still handle the listing-remarks disclosure in your MLS portal — that's the part only you can do.
Every render is sent with a preserve list as well as an instruction. It names one operation and forbids the rest: do not touch windows, doors, walls, ceilings, floors, cabinetry or fixtures unless the instruction names them; do not remove or conceal a defect, stain or crack; do not change what is visible through glass, and never invent a view. Furniture is added to empty rooms; named objects are removed from furnished ones; sky and light are re-graded. If you do see something invented, that is a bug — report the render in the app and the credit comes back.
Yes — one click in the Stripe billing portal from your dashboard. Billing stops immediately, remaining credits stay usable through the end of the billing period, and there's no cancellation fee.
Yes — any AI-generated or AI-modified image is considered an edit requiring disclosure under NAR's standards. That's why every Plotpane export writes invisible XMP disclosure metadata by default. The flag is machine-readable by MLS tooling and survives Lightroom round-trips. You still add the disclosure line to your listing remarks; we make sure the image itself is self-describing.
The toolkit
Seven tools. One credit each.
Every one is a single structure-preserving pass: it changes what you asked for and leaves the building alone.
