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Jake HellerOct 27, 2025

Automate Weekly Regulatory Monitoring with Manus

Automate Weekly Regulatory Monitoring with Manus

Jake Heller

Learn how to use Manus's scheduled task feature to automatically aggregate and report on regulatory changes in your market. This video demonstrates setting up a weekly task to track real estate news, zoning updates, tenant laws, and more, ensuring you stay informed for sound investments.

Transcript

00:00
All right, we're using Manus scheduled task feature to keep us in the loop on any sort of regulatory changes in our market.
00:09
In other words, if you're an investor, you need to be an expert in your market.
00:13
You need to know what goes on, who says what, what zoning changes, what new tenant laws, anything that changes in your market you want to be in front of.
00:26
And so what we're going to do is we're going to utilize Manus for this.
00:29
And we go to our settings down here at the bottom left.
00:32
We're going to hit our scheduled tasks, we're going to create a new schedule.
00:37
Now, let's call this.
00:38
I already created a prompt with my AI girlfriend, Claude.
00:41
Let's call this, regulatory.
00:44
Or actually just LA Market.
00:49
news aggregator.
00:53
Sounded like the Incredibles, the Regurgitator.
00:58
bad joke, apologies.
01:00
We're just going to copy that in there.
01:03
Search for regulatory changes, proposed legislation and policy discussions related to real estate in Los Angeles, California from the past 30 days.
01:12
Only important, review previous reports to avoid duplicates and fight.
01:16
Okay, fine, good.
01:16
We want to focus on zoning and land use, tenant protections, housing development, property standards, taxation, the fees, short term rentals, environmental climate.
01:24
and then I may just add.
01:27
And anything else that could affect me.
01:33
Never know which effect as a real estate owner.
01:39
there's a bunch of sources.
01:40
Great, wonderful connectors.
01:42
If we wanted to, it could be Gmail.
01:43
Great.
01:44
and when do we want this?
01:46
This is something I might just do weekly.
01:48
You could do it monthly, you could do it daily, you could do it whenever you want.
01:50
Okay, but let's just say we want it scheduled Monday, 1:45pm that's fine.
01:58
Let's hit save.
01:59
Okay, now it's going to wait until Monday at, 1:45pm to do that.
02:03
But instead we're just going to hit run now and let's watch it go to work here.
02:07
All right, now, automatically, it's going to run Monday at 1:45pm But I just want to show you guys what it's going to do here.
02:17
so it is doing some thinking, taking a little bit longer than normal here, but that's a.
02:24
Okay.
02:25
And in a moment we should just see it open up its computer.
02:30
Manus has its own sort of computer here, so let's just give it a minute.
02:34
All right, so now we're running.
02:35
And you'll see here we're just going to open Manus's computer mode.
02:39
It's going to search for recent real estate regulatory updates in Los Angeles.
02:43
So it's going to go far and wide.
02:44
Now this should wrap up pretty quickly.
02:46
It's not a big assignment for Manus by any means.
02:49
so in a moment.
02:49
Yeah, it looks like it already just got a bunch of that.
02:51
Check it out.
02:52
SB 79, October 10th, California legislation.
02:55
Cool.
02:56
Affordable Housing Commission dissolution.
02:58
Interesting.
02:59
Haven't seen that.
03:00
Rent control reforms.
03:01
Tenant assistance extension just approved.
03:04
That is today.
03:05
This is brilliant.
03:06
Wow.
03:07
Let's have a look.
03:08
going to get ahead of myself here.
03:09
Let's let it go to work.
03:10
We'll come back when it's ready.
03:13
All right, so we just wrapped up here.
03:15
Let's take a look at what it produced.
03:18
nice.
03:18
Wow, really beefy report.
03:20
let's just dig into it.
03:21
So key findings from initial searches.
03:23
Research period was September 23rd to October 23rd.
03:28
So we have SB79 summary.
03:31
Newsom signed SB79, a landmark housing bill that overrides local zoning to allow apartment buildings up to nine stories.
03:36
Wonderful.
03:37
Great.
03:37
Huge new legislation signed October 10th.
03:39
A couple weeks back.
03:40
We got affordable housing.
03:41
And then it's got sources too.
03:42
We got affordable housing Commission dissolution.
03:44
LA City Council unanimously voted to dissolve the Affordable Housing Commission and transfer its responsibilities.
03:50
Interesting.
03:51
Rent control reforms.
03:52
La considering reforms to rent control that could lower annual rent increase caps currently up to 10%.
03:58
That is not a fun one.
04:00
Tenant assistance extension.
04:02
LA City Council voted to pay nearly 15 million to extend stay housed LA Renter assistant funding in the next spring.
04:08
Labor standards Property tax relief, mansion tax.
04:12
That's a big one.
04:13
Measure.
04:13
ULA discussion, ongoing political battle.
04:15
Okay, great.
04:16
Fine.
04:16
Short term rental.
04:17
Need to browse for details.
04:19
So detail findings, full report.
04:21
I mean this is, this is awesome.
04:23
look, there's other stuff here too.
04:25
Bunch of other stuff.
04:27
Wow.
04:28
Okay, I didn't realize.
04:29
Whoops.
04:30
ADU Tenant Habitability concerns measure.
04:32
Ula.
04:32
Okay.
04:33
Affordable housing streamlining ordinance.
04:35
citywide adaptive reuse ordinance.
04:38
Okay.
04:38
Specific plan property tax relief bills.
04:42
ADU sale ordinance consideration.
04:44
Fire sprinkler requirement for high rise residential buildings.
04:48
Interesting.
04:49
Building permit self certification program.
04:51
Also interesting.
04:52
There's a lot of great stuff in here.
04:54
Wow.
04:54
Okay.
04:54
So yeah, this is something you could run weekly and stay in front of all the regulatory changes.
05:00
out there LA is a beast.
05:03
They make changes all the time.
05:05
Good or bad.
05:06
Don't have an opinion.
05:07
But this is a great way to just make sure you have the market knowledge you need to make sound investments.
05:16
Some of this stuff may affect you.
05:17
Some of it may not, Some of it might move the needle, some of it might not.
05:21
The very least, it's good information to have.
05:24
Okay.
05:24
Even if you're a broker.
05:25
I think this is a really, really great use case.
05:28
Really great use case.
05:29
Right?
05:29
This is information.
05:31
Great use case would be to take this information, put it into a deck using gamma, and then send it to your clients, your market experts.
05:37
Right.
05:38
So I think this is pretty cool.
05:41
great use case with Manus.
05:43
Another one.
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