Investor · Scottsdale, AZ · Member since 2020 · 38 posts · 23 votes
3y
PMS: Guesty Pricing: Pricelabs Locks: Schlage Encode Security System: Nest with Water Sensors & Motion for when residence is vacant. Cameras: Ring & Google/Nest HVAC Control: Ecobee Noise/Occupancy Monitoring: Minut Digital Concierge: GuestViewGuide Pool Automation: Pentair Intellicenter Accounting: Quickbooks
Rental Property Investor · Melbourne, FL · Member since 2011 · 3k+ posts · 2k+ votes
3y
Great thread! I am researching noise monitoring software, as I have had "guests gone wild" and police call outs for noise recently. I also have heated pools, and don't have a pool automation service. Still learning daily at BP!
My own:
Pricing: moved from Beyond Pricing to Pricelabs recently
Locks: Nest and Schlage
Rankbreeze
Cameras: Eufy
HVAC Control: Nest
Pools: salt water and Easy Temp heater...I need the automation part that I see above @Jeff E.
It's where I organize all of the information for my properties.
For example, when I onboard a new property, I have an entire checklist I go through as a way to gather info. You could technically do the same on google docs, but I just think it's easier to use notion for my team and me.
Would you mind sharing how you're using Notion? I am closing on my first investment at the end of this month and I just came onto the forums to see if/how others are using Notion - any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated!
Rental Property Investor · Denver, CO · Member since 2019 · 231 posts · 256 votes
9mo
Hey Brian! Congrats on your 1st investment property, super exciting!!!!!
I use Notion as my organization system - meaning all of the information about the property is organized in Notion and it makes it super easy for me and my VA's to access the information.
For your 1st property, you can easily just use Google Docs though! Once you scale and bring on a VA, then it may make more sense to switch to something like Notion.
PMS: Hospitable
Pricing: PriceLabs
Locks: Schlage
Cleaning coordination: Turno
Accounting: RentalRiches (full disclosure, I'm the one who built it, mostly because I got tired of Wave and QuickBooks not knowing what a per-property STR payout even was)
The accounting piece was honestly the last thing I fixed and the one that saved me the most time. Everything else on this list touches guests or the property day to day, but the bookkeeping side is the one that quietly eats a whole weekend every quarter if you're piecing it together from Airbnb and VRBO payout reports by hand. Curious if anyone else here has found a good middle ground between a spreadsheet and full QuickBooks for multi platform STR income.