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Who We Are

Built by Someone
Who's Done the Job.

Elevate isn't a data collection company. It's a performance improvement company — built by a multifamily training professional who spent 20+ years inside the industry before building a better way to evaluate it.

Eric Franco
Eric Franco
Founder, Elevate Mystery Shopping
Founder & Principal Consultant
20+ Years in Multifamily
The Founder
Eric Franco

Eric Franco

Eric Franco spent more than two decades working inside the multifamily industry — not evaluating it from the outside, but living it from the inside. He built his career progressing through leasing, operations, systems training, and ultimately learning and development leadership, serving as both a National Systems Trainer and a Director of Training.

In those roles, Eric trained hundreds of leasing professionals, designed onboarding and coaching frameworks, implemented enterprise systems like Entrata across large portfolios, and built performance improvement programs that produced measurable results. He understood what it took to convert a prospect — and what it looked like when a team wasn't doing it.

He also understood the limitations of traditional mystery shopping. Reports would arrive, scores would be shared, and then — nothing. No coaching conversation. No action plan. No follow-up.

The evaluation became a compliance exercise rather than a performance tool. Elevate was built to change that. By combining rigorous evaluation methodology with real coaching expertise and training alignment, Elevate turns mystery shopping into a genuine performance improvement engine — not just a scorecard.

Every evaluation Eric designs reflects 20+ years of knowing what great leasing performance actually looks like — and what it takes to build it.

Areas of Expertise
Leasing & Sales Performance Operations Management Systems Training (Entrata) Learning & Development Coaching & Accountability Customer Experience Design Performance Improvement Mystery Shopping Onboarding Programs Manager Coaching Frameworks Training Content Development Portfolio Operations
Experience That Informs Every Evaluation

20+ Years. Every Role. Real Results.

Not a data company that hired evaluators — a training leader who became one.

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Director of Training
Led learning & development strategy across large multifamily portfolios, building programs that drove measurable performance improvement.
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National Systems Trainer
Trained leasing and operations professionals across the country, including enterprise-wide Entrata implementations.
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Performance Improvement
Designed and implemented programs that measurably improved leasing conversion rates across diverse community types.
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L&D Leadership
Built onboarding, coaching, and development frameworks from the ground up — systems still in use across large portfolios today.
Why Elevate Exists

The Industry Had a Problem.
Elevate Is the Answer.

After two decades inside multifamily, Eric saw the same three problems play out over and over again — and built Elevate specifically to solve them.

01
Reports without follow-through.
Most mystery shopping companies deliver a score and a PDF — then disappear. There's no coaching conversation, no action plan, no accountability. The report sits in an inbox and nothing changes.
02
Evaluators who've never done the job.
When evaluations are designed by people who've never managed a leasing team or coached a consultant, the findings lack context. They measure activity, not performance.
03
No connection to training.
Even when companies identify performance gaps, they rarely connect those gaps to specific training opportunities. The loop never closes.
"Elevate was built to close the loop — between evaluation, coaching, training, and measurable improvement."
— Eric Franco, Founder
Our Mission

Performance Improvement,
Not Just a Score.

Elevate's mission is to help multifamily communities improve leasing performance in a way that's measurable, sustainable, and connected to real coaching and training outcomes.

Every evaluation is designed to produce not just a score — but a clear picture of what's working, what isn't, and exactly what to do about it.

  • Customized to your company's standards
  • Connected to coaching and training
  • Designed to drive measurable improvement
  • Built by someone who's done the job
Measure.
Rigorous, customized evaluations that capture the real customer experience — scored against your standards, not a generic template.
Coach.
Actionable findings, manager action plans, and coaching conversations that produce real change — not reports that sit in an inbox.
Elevate.
Measurable performance improvement that shows up in conversion rates, customer experience, and team accountability.
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