Property Management News
Best budgeting apps for landlords start with a personal finance tool that keeps day-to-day spending under control, then add a property-specific platform once per-unit accounting becomes necessary. PocketGuard does the first job better than almost anything else on the market, and tools like Stessa, Baselane, Landlord Studio, and Avail handle the second job once a rental business grows past a side hustle. Most guides aimed at landlords skip straight to property management software and miss a basic truth: a landlord is a person first. Before worrying about Schedule E categories or tenant portals, it helps to know where the money goes every month — and a personal budgeting app solves that,... Read more
The gaps in website accessibility for people with disabilities and other underserved groups continues to be exposed. With one in four American adults disabled, digital...
There is a particular irony in the current state of the multifamily industry. The same technological forces that have made property management faster, more scalable, and...
Los Angeles landlord Michael Renkow already had a sinking feeling when one of the new tenants at his Hollywood apartment building, “Igor,” was two hours late to pick...
It’s safe to say that AI is no longer just a futuristic concept or a fleeting tech bubble. Beyond all the hype and debate, artificial intelligence has gone from a...
I’ve been around long enough to watch entire technology cycles play out. From the early days of automated rent setting, through the BI revolution, through COVID-era leasing transformation and now into what everyone is calling “the AI era.” And I’ll be honest: the signal-to-noise ratio right now is the worst I’ve ever seen it. “AI” has become a word that means everything and therefore means nothing. Talk to ten vendors at any industry conference and every single one will tell you they have AI. Some of them do. Most of them have something much closer to a chatbot wrapper on a database they haven’t touched in five years, dressed up in a very... Read more
AI is not a replacement for a property management platform, but it can help with administrative functions. Beware of its potential bias, legal issues and...
The multifamily property management industry has long operated on a simple formula: more units means more people. For every few hundred apartments, you need leasing...
For nearly all renters, Wi-Fi, that four-letter word, has evolved from a nice-to-have perk into a necessity. “Wi-Fi is now treated like the ‘fourth utility,’”...
Not long ago, the apartment search looked like this: open Google, type “apartments near me,” scroll through a handful of listings, and schedule a tour. That funnel...
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