Case Study: CA Student Living achieves faster 10,000-room student turns and increased damage recovery with Happyco

CA Student Living Dramatically Speeds Up Turn for 10k Rooms at 19 Properties

CA Student Living, a division of CA Ventures that operates 19 student housing properties, faced a major operational bottleneck: conducting summer "turn" inspections for roughly 10,000 bedrooms using paper checklists. The manual process was time-consuming, created inconsistent data, required extensive data entry, and made it difficult to document damage clearly — leading to frequent charge disputes and lower recovery of repair costs.

By deploying HappyCo’s platform (Happy Inspector and the Happy Manage control center), CA Student Living digitized checklists, standardized inspections across sites, and captured photo-backed condition ratings in real time. The change cut inspection labor and turn times significantly, improved portfolio-wide visibility into rehab costs, reduced disputes through instant before-and-after evidence, and increased recovery of damage charges — with rapid rollouts and plans to expand the system to move-in inspections.

CA Student Living

Matt Walker

VP of Property Management