Awareness that leases —
before you spend
a dollar on ads.

Most buildings leave this on the table entirely.

Dear Owner, Operator, or Developer,

Renters are not opening newspapers. They're not clicking banner ads. They are on their phones, scrolling through Instagram and TikTok, forming opinions about buildings they haven't toured yet — and the buildings that show up, consistently, with content that actually looks like the property, are the ones getting the calls.

Most communities either post nothing, or hand the task to an on-site team that's already stretched thin and has never picked up a camera. A few post stock photography that looks exactly like every other building on the feed. None of it moves the needle.

Genuinely good content — shot at your property, edited clean, posted on a consistent calendar — builds a local audience that is warm before they ever fill out a form. That audience costs you nothing to retarget later if you want to run ads. And it works on its own even if you never run a single ad.

We do the whole thing. The shoot, the edit, the calendar, the posting, the inbox. Every month, on your building, under your brand. It's a clean monthly fee and it's the first thing we do for almost every client we take on.

— James Thomas, Founder

On-property lifestyle photography — multifamily community interior
Apartment community lifestyle shot — pool and amenity space
Aerial drone photography — multifamily community and surroundings
Community amenities content photography

What's included

Done for you.
Top to bottom.

  1. 01
    Monthly on-property content shoot Our team comes to you — video, stills, and stories captured in a single shoot day, edited to a consistent brand standard, and organized for your records.
  2. 02
    Multi-platform posting Posted on schedule across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn — with captions and hashtags written for each platform's algorithm, not copy-pasted.
  3. 03
    Community management & DMs Comments answered, DMs handled fair-housing-compliant, leasing inquiries routed straight to your on-site team. Your inbox doesn't sit unread.
  4. 04
    Monthly performance report Reach, engagement, follower growth, and lead routing — in plain English, delivered monthly, with the honest read on what's working.
  5. 05
    Content calendar & strategy A planned calendar built around your leasing goals — seasonality, special events, amenity highlights, unit turns — not a random queue of posts.

The thesis

Why social — before ads.

Paid ads convert the people who are already looking. Social builds the audience before they're looking — which is the reason your cost-per-lead drops dramatically once you've been running good content for 60 days.

Aerial view multifamily community — drone photography by THOMAS

Not stock. Not reposts.

Shot at your property. Every month.

We send our own crew — the same photographers and videographers who shoot for the industry's top operators — to your property every month to create content that looks like your building, not a generic luxury apartment template.

Video, stills, aerial, lifestyle. Edited to a house standard that's consistent enough to look like a brand across a full year of posting. Every asset is yours — organized, labeled, delivered to your drive each month alongside the content that ships live.

Your on-site team doesn't have to think about it. The feed never goes quiet. The brand stays sharp.

See what month one looks like →

The proof

Social-first is how the top buildings in the country lease.

When social runs well, the whole funnel gets cheaper — including ads you haven't run yet.

95%+Grove Central stabilization — social-first, no Diamond Plus
1,417+qualified leads — organic and paid working together
$3.17cost per lead — vs. $15–30 industry average
4.6M+impressions on under $7,000 of paid spend

"Our two highest-performing lease-ups are Metro Edgewater & Grove Central. Neither used apartments.com 'Diamond Plus,' and SEM spend was south of $7,000 at both. The only thing those two properties have in common is they use THOMAS."

— Michael Walsh, Greystar

Client metrics shared with permission. See the full case studies →

The optional next step

When you're ready to add paid distribution.

Social is the foundation. When the feed is built, the audience is warm, and the building is ready to push — paid ads run on top of that work and convert at a fraction of the cost of a cold campaign.

We don't push you there. Some buildings run social alone for years and lease without it. But when you want to accelerate — more leads, a faster lease-up, a harder push before TCO — the content we've already built becomes the fuel.

That's the full Occupancy Engine: social doing the brand work, paid doing the conversion work, and both of them running off the same content, in the same team, optimized weekly against the same leasing data.

See the full Occupancy Engine™ →
01
Social Management
You are here — content, posting, community mgmt
02
Paid Distribution
Meta + TikTok ads run off your existing content library
03
Occupancy Engine™
Full funnel — social + ads + leasing system, stabilization guarantee

Built for

Any building that wants its social handled.

Stabilized Assets

You're full — or close. The goal is retention, brand equity, and making sure the next renter knows who you are before they ever search. Social is the cheapest way to stay top of mind.

Active Lease-Ups

The building is filling and the marketing needs to keep the traffic coming. Social builds the audience that makes your paid spend more efficient every single week it runs.

Pre-Opening Developments

You don't have to wait until TCO to start building an audience. A content strategy that begins at framing and documents the build creates a warm, excited audience before the leasing office opens.

Portfolio Operators

Five buildings, fifteen, fifty — the same playbook scales. Consistent brand, consistent posting, one team managing the content across the whole portfolio, one report, one invoice.

Let's run your social.

Book a 15-minute call. We'll look at your current presence, tell you exactly what we'd post in month one, and show you what the content looks like for your market and building type. No pitch, no pressure — just the honest conversation about whether we're the right fit.

Book a Social Strategy Call →

@thomasproductionsco · james@thomasproductionsco.com · 561.386.0962