Best GoTo Software for Rentals
Provo, UT · Member since 2017 · 27 posts · 5 votes
I have one rental property that I'm managing myself.
Wondering what the best software is that could help me advertise the property by sending the rental listing to multiple websites, provide a rental application for prospective tenants to fill out as well as run background checks, etc. Is there a software out there that anyone would recommend?
I currently manage 4 SFH rentals in addition to having a very demanding full time job. There are many free resources out there for smaller investors. I am going to list them:
Other free websites I haven't used.
There are many free resources to use before you start paying for services. Out of my 4 rentals, I have placed 2 tenants with TurboTenant - one tenant is on year 3 and the other tenant is on year 2. I listed the properties, took some pictures (they weren't the greatest pictures) and had it rented in a week. I was able to recycle the leases upon renewal and didn't pay any commissions for the rental, which is a savings of over $4,000 if you consider the rental commission to be 1 month rent. I highly recommend it.
Here are some threads you may want to take a read of:
I currently manage 4 SFH rentals in addition to having a very demanding full time job. There are many free resources out there for smaller investors. I am going to list them:
Other free websites I haven't used.
There are many free resources to use before you start paying for services. Out of my 4 rentals, I have placed 2 tenants with TurboTenant - one tenant is on year 3 and the other tenant is on year 2. I listed the properties, took some pictures (they weren't the greatest pictures) and had it rented in a week. I was able to recycle the leases upon renewal and didn't pay any commissions for the rental, which is a savings of over $4,000 if you consider the rental commission to be 1 month rent. I highly recommend it.
Here are some threads you may want to take a read of:
TenantCloud is pretty good too. It does a lot of what you mentioned and is free for the base version.
I loved cozy and used that for years, All my properties got migrated to apartments.com when they bought them out. Did not love it at first, have a few properties moved over to Zillow, we'll move them all back to apartments.com when this lease is up though. Apartments.com is free and has all the features that I've become accustomed to. I'd be interested to hear others thoughts on why other programs are better than apartments.com.
I use Avail for advertising . . . don't use other features yet. It's basically free to advertise on many sites (Realtor.com, Apartments.com, Hotpads, etc); a few sites/platforms like Zillow, do add minimal fees. Then, for my top tenant prospects, I use SmartMove to vet for background checks, etc.
@Matt Sumsion this forum is rich with info already. I would say figure out what you need, and do some desktop research on all the options. Get demos of the solutions or try the free ones out to see what you like best. It really depends on your units and your tenants too. What's best for them?
My recommendation is to look for companies that are investing in features and making it better all the time.
I've tried avail, rent redi, cozy, Zillow and Baselane. Each has their tradeoffa and none are perfect imo yet. I'm probt getting off rent redi - too buggy. And liley keeping Zillow rental and Baselane.
RENTLER is by far the best software I have used. It is free to you (the landlord) and more importantly the tenants. I have a few units here in Utah and use rentler for all of them.
Since rentler is a local company A LOT of renters use rentler when looking for units.