If there’s one constant in property management, it’s change.
Whether it's a seasonal shift, a market-specific trend, or just evolving neighborhood dynamics, vacant property risks can shift fast. The latest hotspot, as documented by VacantView™ customers, is Las Vegas, which is now seeing an alarming rise in trespassed houses.
Trespassing incidents come in many forms, from opportunistic break-ins, to coordinated “prep-and-return” entries and increasingly sophisticated rental fraud scams. And each incident can lead to costly delays, property damage, appliance theft, and frustrating rental disruptions.
So how can property owners, managers, and investors manage shifting trends in the rental home market without breaking the bank? They need a flexible solution that can move and adapt with the changing needs of their properties.
Why Adaptable Monitoring Matters
Property threats aren’t uniform and can shift based on location, season, or economic cycles. For example, economic factors that challenge housing affordability can influence a rise in trespassing cases, or properties in coastal areas can see a rise in weather-related property damage during hurricane season.
VacantView is a vacant property monitoring system built to manage that ever-changing risk landscape. It allows you to:
- Deploy or relocate monitoring kits across markets quickly
- Monitor in real time with live activity alerts and video streams
- Scale up cost-effectively without long-term contracts or installations
How VacantView Stays Ahead
VacantView helps you respond to risks as they emerge, not days, weeks, or even months after the fact. Take for example the following scenarios:
Sudden demand in new region
When a new market sees a spike in incidents, like a sudden rise in trespassing in Las Vegas, traditional systems often fall short. Fixed-location security setups can’t easily be moved, and permanent installations come with high upfront costs and lengthy monitoring contracts.
VacantView’s portable kit model and pay-per-kit monitoring subscriptions mean that plug-and-play kits can easily be moved between markets and redeployed in different properties with minimal setup and no additional monitoring fees.
Seasonal risk variations by geography
Certain risks peak depending on the time of year and the region. For example, water damage spikes during hurricane season in the Southeast, and properties are prone to burst pipes in the Midwest during the winter months. Property managers are usually faced with the trade-off of over-prepping homes with costly, static monitoring systems or running the risk of not catching damage until long after it’s been done.
VacantView lets operators scale up coverage in a region ahead of a seasonal threat and redisperse kits once the risk subsides, monitoring assets only when and where protection is needed. Incorporating additional Swidget sensors like humidity and water leak sensors into standard VacantView deployments allows for a holistic monitoring approach where environmental risks can be monitored as well.
High cost of static installations
Traditional security solutions often involve professional installation, specialized wiring, and long-term contracts that make them cost-prohibitive to deploy across every vacant home, especially if a home will only sit vacant for a few weeks at a time. This leads to a “pick and choose” approach to protection, leaving gaps that if found, can be easily exploited.
VacantView changes the economics of property protection:
- Swidget’s outlets and switches utilize existing wiring and can easily be installed by a contractor. This install is only required the first time you use VacantView in a property.
- Monitoring kits can be activated by property managers or security teams in minutes. Simply plug in the VacantView monitoring sensors and hotspot once the Swidget devices are installed – no special tools, service calls, or installation crews needed.
- VacantView kits are portable and use pay-per-kit subscriptions, allowing them to easily be removed once a property becomes leased and reused in the next vacant property.
Changing asset mix or portfolio footprint
As your portfolio grows, shifts, or consolidates across regions, it becomes difficult to track which homes are at risk and to move your monitoring equipment and contracts in step. Traditional systems don’t offer the operational agility to match a dynamic portfolio.
With VacantView, whether you’re onboarding 50 new homes or exiting a region entirely, our kits and centralized dashboard let you stay in control without renegotiating contracts or undergoing costly, specialized reinstalls.
Real World Impact
VacantView delivers what most systems can’t: a monitoring solution that adapts to risk quickly, cost-effectively, and at scale.
Rather than locking you into expensive, fixed installations, VacantView gives you the flexibility to deploy protection exactly where it’s needed. Its portable design, simple setup, and scalable model empower your team to stay ahead of emerging threats while keeping operational costs in check.
When risks evolve by the week, or by the market, you need a system that’s just as dynamic. VacantView moves with your portfolio, so you're never left exposed.
Contact our team for a personalized demo of VacantView or click here to learn more.
