Doorpreneur
How to run a property management company as a real business, not just a way to collect rent. I wrote it from running my own.
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One company. Many businesses.
I’m Tony LeBlanc. I turned one property management company into a group of companies by owning the work we used to pay others to do. I’ll show you which of your bills could be next.
It started with one vendor bill: $250,000 a year for grass and snow.
Today the group manages 1,200 doors, runs 6 trade divisions and, at its peak, did about $10M a year combined. Since 2019 I’ve coached 100+ owners and written 2 books.
You don’t have a growth problem. You have a model problem.
When a good service company stops growing, most owners do one of two things. They push harder until something breaks, or they sell and start again from zero.
There’s a third way: own the work you send out.
It starts with the bills you already pay. Every vendor line on your P&L is work your customers already created.
See the method$250,000 came from one line item
It came from one line on our P&L, in 2013.
My partner and I were going through the property management company’s numbers. We were paying vendors $250,000 a year to cut grass and clear snow on the properties we managed. We owned no mowers and no plow trucks, but we wrote the specs, set the schedules and took the complaint calls. Someone else kept the margin.
So we bought a landscaping and snow removal franchise. Three years later it was twice the size of the company that created it. We sold it later, and we kept the lesson: the bill was a business.
The companies we built, sold and shut down
At our peak the group did about $10M a year, combined. A partner leads each business alongside me, and I’m still the hands-on CEO of the company where it started.
Property management
Running since 2010. Where it started, with one duplex.
Trade services
Running since 2011. Six trade divisions. Outside clients use them too.
Apartment investing
Running since 2012. Buys and holds apartment buildings.
Landscaping and snow
Sold. The franchise we bought off our own vendor bill in 2013.
Concrete
Shut down. Three good years from 2018, then staffing got hard.
Pest control
We hold a stake. We bought in, and it has grown since.
Bins and junk removal
New in 2026. Started with a vendor who hauled for us.
Painting
New in 2026. Started with a vendor who painted for us.
Cleaning
New in 2026. Started with a vendor who cleaned for us.
Five ways to work with me
Every offer teaches the same five steps. If you’re not sure where you fit, start with the audit. It will point you to one.
Red Pen Audit
Free
Circle your vendor bills and see which one could be your next company. It takes about six minutes, and you see your number before I ask for your email.
Run the free Red Pen AuditGroundwork
The 30-Day Quick Start as a guided course, plus a live teardown of members’ vendor lines every month.For owners who want the method and will do the work themselves.MembershipOpens February 1, 2027Join the waitlistRed Pen Session
An hour on your numbers with me, and a written verdict within two business days.For owners who want a straight answer on one decision.One hour, one-on-oneFrom February 2027Book a sessionKeystone
One table with nine other owners, meeting once a month on real numbers.For owners building a second company who will show a room their books.Ten owners, one table, one yearGroups start March 2027ApplyFoundry
We build your second company with you: the trade, the leader, the numbers and the first outside customers.For owners whose first company already runs without them.Six-month buildSix builds at a time, from March 2027Book a fit call
Two books
Built to Multiply
How to turn one service business into many: the whole method, and the parts that failed.
Get Chapter 1 first