Amenity Hub · 5 Property Types
On-site laundry is the shared laundry room in a multifamily building, the guest laundry in a motel corridor, or the machine bank in affordable housing. It is the classic ancillary line: modest revenue, steady margin, and a maintenance profile that shows up long before the income statement does. Revenue is measured per unit or per available room rather than in absolute dollars, because the number that matters is how much a given machine bank earns against the doors it serves. Utilization tells the other half of the story — a bank running near capacity is a resident-satisfaction problem and a capex signal, not a success. Operators choose between owned machines, which carry the capex and the revenue, and leased routes, which trade upside for a vendor handling service; the two produce very different margins from identical usage. Ilora.ai keeps in-unit washer-dryer separate from shared laundry, since one is a unit feature that supports rent and the other is a revenue centre.
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Shared laundry is a revenue centre with its own income, utilization and maintenance cost. An in-unit washer-dryer is a unit feature that supports rent and turnover instead — it earns nothing directly. Ilora tracks them separately, because combining them makes both numbers meaningless.
Revenue per unit or per available room, plus machine utilization. Absolute revenue says little without the door count behind it. High utilization is a warning as much as a win: a bank at capacity means residents are waiting, which is a satisfaction risk and usually a capex signal.
Substantially. Owned machines carry the capex and keep the revenue; a leased route hands the vendor a share in exchange for service and replacement. Identical usage produces very different margins, so Ilora reads laundry margin against which model the property runs rather than against a single benchmark.