Free multifamily budget calculator

How much should you
be spending on marketing?

Most owners set their marketing budget by feel — last year’s number, or whatever the agency asked for. Your occupancy has an opinion. Get the number your asset actually calls for, in 60 seconds.

Built by Digital Mules — an Inc. 5000 recognized agency that has helped 130+ communities on a simple rule: leases, not clicks.
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Step 1 of 4

How many total units?

Budgets are built per door — unit count anchors everything.

What the number is based on

Your budget should come from your vacancy — not your gut.

The calculator works backward from the leases you're missing: how many doors sit vacant, what each one costs you monthly, and what it takes to close the gap at benchmark cost-per-lease. Stabilized asset? It sizes a protect-the-roll budget instead.

01 · Rent at risk

What vacancy costs you

Vacant doors × average rent = the monthly revenue your marketing exists to recover. That's the ceiling that makes any budget rational.

02 · Cost per lease

What a lease should cost

We benchmark media spend against the cost to generate one signed lease in your market — not impressions, not clicks, not "engagement."

03 · Execution

What running it costs

Media doesn't manage itself. The budget includes execution — strategy, creative, tracking, reporting — priced per door so it scales with the asset.

The next step

Got your number? We'll run it for you.

Digital Mules executes the whole plan — paid media, creative, landing pages, tracking, and reporting — for a transparent per-door fee that's already inside your recommended budget. You're a developer, not a marketer. Let us carry the weight.