How Manny Meneses escaped the paper receipt treadmill and got 30 hours a month back

Killing momentum with a desk full of documents

Manny Meneses is in real estate, works with Park Regency Realty, and also supports clients through investment-focused wealth management. In other words, he’s not short on responsibilities.

But his property management system was basically his desk. Manny was running an “old antiquated” Excel workflow where everything turned into paper: rent receipts for tenants, reports for owners, and a constant shuffle of documents that made growth feel expensive—mostly in time and stress.

“Before I started using DoorLoop, I had everything on paper. I had paper files and I had a mess of a desk with an overwhelming amount of documents everywhere.”

Even worse, the work wasn’t just annoying; it was stealing his bandwidth from the parts of his business that actually moved the needle. Property management kept growing while each day still had the same number of hours.

Simple enough to start fast, strong enough to grow

After a targeted Google search, Manny made a shortlist and a quick decision once it finally clicked. The first four options didn’t feel right. DoorLoop did, mostly because the software didn’t require him to have an accounting background to feel confident with it.

Once he saw how DoorLoop handled the day-to-day pain—receipts, owner visibility, and reducing paper—it became the obvious upgrade. Manny didn’t need more features. He needed less friction.

“The reason I switched over to DoorLoop is that I was using an old, antiquated system with spreadsheets through Excel. However, I had to print rent receipts for the tenants, and I had to do reports for my owners. It just became an overwhelmingly high demand for paper.”

From 40 hours to 7 and a business that can finally take more on

The biggest shift wasn’t subtle. Manny went from spending most of the month buried in admin work to handling the essentials in a fraction of the time. Receipts no longer required printing. Tenants didn’t need to call and double-check payments. Owners could stay updated without Manny assembling a monthly paper trail.

“The amount of time I save with DoorLoop is probably about 30 hours. I went from 37–40 hours a month [managing properties] to seven hours in one month because everything is just automated, nice and easy.”

That time didn’t just disappear; Manny reinvested it. He describes the software as the switch that automated his operation, improved his service for both sides (tenant and owner), and made his capacity bigger. The business didn’t just get easier, it got more scalable.