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What Attendees Experienced at the 2025 MX Summit
At last year’s MX Summit, sessions were intentionally designed around the real challenges property management teams face every day. Check it out to learn a little bit about what you can expect from the MX Summit.
Technician Efficiency & Underutilization
Sessions included:
- Leveraging the Perfect Decision to Improve Tech Utilization
- Built to Last: Best Practices for High-Performing In-House Maintenance Teams
- Mastering Maintenance Costs: Accounting & Operational Best Practices
Attendees learned how to:
- Assign the right work to the right technician at the right time
- Build scalable internal maintenance teams that reduce reliance on vendors
- Improve cost tracking and operational decision-making tied directly to technician efficiency
Vendor Relationships & Communication
Sessions included:
- Collaborative Partnerships: Elevating Property Maintenance Through Vendor Relationships
- Vendor Nexus Panel
- Workshop: Embracing Maintenance AI for Residents and Teams
Attendees learned how to:
- Build stronger, performance-driven vendor partnerships
- Drive accountability through aligned goals and mutual trust
- Improve collaboration between internal teams, vendors, and residents
Visibility Into Performance & Outcomes
Sessions included:
- Saving Your Bacon: Using Competitive Benchmarking to Drive Success
- Addressing Strategic Problems with Data in Insights Pro
- Best Practices for Surfacing Information in Property Meld
Attendees learned how to:
- Compare their maintenance performance against industry peers
- Use benchmarking and data to uncover bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and growth opportunities
- Turn insights into action across maintenance operations
Change Management & Organizational Friction
Sessions included:
- Strategic Change Management for Portfolio and Department Restructures
- Fixing the Foundation: Structuring Maintenance for Success
- The Modern PMC Playbook: Building a High-Performing, Scalable Team
Attendees learned how to:
- Restructure operations to support long-term growth
- Implement change across teams while maintaining stability and performance
- Navigate organizational shifts with less resistance and more alignment
Resident Experience & Satisfaction
Sessions included:
- Customer-Obsessed: The Key to Thriving Maintenance Operations
- Embracing Maintenance AI for Residents and Teams: Intake Reimagined
Attendees learned how to:
- Build processes that prioritize the resident experience without sacrificing efficiency
- Use technology and AI to enhance service delivery, not replace human expertise
- Improve communication and transparency throughout the maintenance lifecycle
Processes & Configuration
Sessions included:
- Meld Academy: Interactive Workflows Workshop
- Meld Academy: Account Configurations for Scaling
- Future-Proofing Best Practices for Onboarding New Employees
Attendees learned how to:
- Optimize workflows inside Property Meld
- Configure accounts to support scale and long-term growth
- Onboard new team members faster without slowing operations
Revenue Focus in Maintenance
Sessions included:
- The Road to Revenue: Unleashing the Profit Potential in Property Maintenance
- Move-Ins, Move-Outs, and Maintenance: The Money’s in the Margins
- The Future of Cost Management in Meld
- Mastering Maintenance Costs: Accounting & Operational Best Practices
Attendees learned how to:
- Shift maintenance from a cost center to a profit driver
- Use maintenance operations to increase NOI
- Identify margin opportunities through smarter cost and process management
Leadership & Communication
Sessions included:
- How to Become a Trusted Voice with Your Peers and Teams
- Lost in Translation: Speaking Real Estate to Wall Street
- The One-Page Marketing Plan: Simplifying Strategy for Impact
Attendees learned how to:
- Improve communication across departments and stakeholders
- Position themselves as strategic leaders internally and externally
- Bridge the gap between operations, leadership, and investors
If you are interested in speaking at the 2026 MX Summit, please fill out our application below.
Welcome Reception & Registration
The Bistro Bar
7:00pm – 9:30pm
Let's get the party started!
Kick off the 2024 MX Summit at the Bistro Bar with cocktails and appetizers while connecting with industry peers, Melders, and speakers. Don't forget to register and pick up your swag bag!
Breakout Sessions
11:30 – 12:30pm
choose one
Secrets to Building a World Class Internal Maintenance Team.
Ellsworth Ballroom
Description
Having the oversight to see technician performance is more critical than ever. Justin Mann, Co-founder of Stonelink Property Management, will share his experience with transforming his powerhouse internal maintenance team to handle over 97% of their maintenance work with best-in-class efficiency. In this session, we will share the keys to world-class technician utilization and what metrics matter to increasing NOI with an internal maintenance team.
Presented by:
Justin Mann, Managing Partner at Stonelink Property Management
How to Leverage Your Maintenance Metrics to Market Your Business
Raider Salon C
Description
Your maintenance performance should be your most powerful marketing tool. Molly Sperlich-Best, Marketing Coordinator and Maintenance Minute contributor will share her experience leveraging metrics to produce compelling marketing content. This session will teach you how maintenance metrics can boost your property management business’s marketing. Discover data-driven insights to enhance your value proposition, attract clients, and stand out in a competitive market. Understand how to leverage AI and SEO to build actionable strategies to incorporate metrics into compelling marketing materials, driving growth and success.
Presented by:
Molly Sperlich-Best, Marketing Coordinator at Property Meld
Resident Adoption: Why Does it Matter and How to Improve it
Raider Salon D
Description
Old habits can be hard to break. This is particularly true with residents, where some need more incentive to embrace technologies and are unwilling to abandon their old ways. Maria Napolitano, Broker at Allegiant Management Group, will share her experience setting expectations with residents to increase their adoption. In this session, we will analyze the data to better understand the metrics resident adoption impacts and share ways to improve it.
Presented by:
Maria Napolitano, Broker at Allegian Management Group