About Lucky Communities

Lucky Communities is a manufactured housing community operator managing 18 communities across four states, covering 1,100 lots. Unlike traditional property management firms focused solely on real-estate investment, Lucky Communities prioritizes community-building — ensuring residents have access to clean, safe, and affordable housing while fostering their financial growth.

Ryan Gaudet, Sales Manager, oversees sales and marketing while ensuring new applicants align with the company's mission to maintain safe and stable communities. Before partnering with Boom, the team faced challenges with both tenant screening and financial empowerment for residents.

A screening system that missed the details

Tenant screening is critical for Lucky Communities — the goal is to keep communities safe and prevent unnecessary evictions. But their previous solution fell short: criminal reports frequently missed key history, the interface was clunky, and it was expensive while still failing to deliver accurate, real-time data.

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"Our old screening system was expensive, outdated, and frustrating to use. Worse, we were missing critical information on criminal reports, which made it difficult to ensure the safety of our communities."

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At the same time, many residents — often with limited credit history — were looking to improve their financial standing and work toward homeownership, but the company had no rent-reporting service to help them build credit.

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"Many of our residents are trying to rebuild their financial future. Rent reporting gives them a structured way to stay on top of their budgets and improve their credit scores, helping them secure better financial opportunities down the line."

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The solution: BoomScreen and BoomReport

After evaluating their options, Lucky Communities chose Boom for its seamless Rent Manager integration, ease of use, accuracy, and affordability — adopting both BoomScreen and BoomReport.

BoomReport: empowering residents with credit-building

BoomReport lets residents report on-time rent payments to the major credit bureaus. Lucky Communities covers the first three months so residents can see the impact before opting in.

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"We actually offer three months of free BoomReport to our residents. That way, they can see the real impact on their credit scores before committing. Every resident who has signed up has seen only positive results."

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Because Lucky Communities already used Rent Manager, BoomReport integrated directly into their existing workflow — automatically reporting on-time payments and enrolling new residents, with no extra manual work.

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"BoomReport works hand-in-hand with Rent Manager, which makes everything super simple. We can easily manage enrollments and reporting directly within our PMS."

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BoomScreen: better screening, lower risk

BoomScreen replaced Lucky Communities' previous screening tool and immediately closed the gaps which meant more accurate criminal screening, an intuitive interface, real-time insights, and a lower cost.

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"With BoomScreen, we're able to decrease the risks of eviction and criminal activity. The insights help us continue our mission of providing affordable, clean, and safe living conditions."

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The Rent Manager integration syncs applicant data automatically and stores reports where the team can access them, while Boom's 0–10 applicant score speeds decisions.

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"The 0–10 applicant score is incredibly helpful. It makes it so much easier to evaluate applicants at a glance."

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The results

Since implementing BoomScreen and BoomReport, Lucky Communities has strengthened its communities and empowered its residents:

• Safer, more stable communities — more accurate screening reduces eviction and criminal-activity risk
• Residents building credit — BoomReport users have seen credit-score improvements
• Greater operational efficiency — Rent Manager integration automates screening and rent reporting
• Faster decisions — the 0–10 applicant score simplifies evaluation
• Outstanding support — responsive, patient customer service

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"Whether or not residents choose to buy a home from us, we want to give them that option. BoomReport helps make homeownership more achievable for them." — Ryan Gaudet, Sales Manager, Lucky Communities"If you want a great product backed by an incredible customer service team, I highly recommend choosing Boom."

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About Lucky Communities

Lucky Communities is a manufactured housing community operator focused on providing residents with clean, safe, and affordable housing across 18 communities in four states, while helping them build financial stability and work toward homeownership.

About Boom

Boom is the financial services infrastructure powering modern rental operations. Boom provides property managers across multifamily, single-family, and manufactured housing with BoomScreen (configurable tenant screening and underwriting with fraud detection and income verification) and BoomReport (automated rent reporting to all three credit bureaus). The Boom Platform integrates with major property management systems to help reduce fraud, increase leasing velocity, drive on-time payments, and grow revenue, while serving renters through the Boom App to build credit and improve financial health.