Please share your experience and recommendations for tenant screening software also general preferred platform for rental management (stessa / avail / baselane / turbotenant etc) Thank you
If you are a brokerage founder, property management team leader, or syndicator, I want to ask you a brutal question: What percentage of your week is spent working on your business versus working in it? Most real estate founders are stuck in an 80/20 trap. They spend 80% of their time trapped in t...
When I bought my properties I calculated the expected rent, mortgage, expenses, projected cash flow. But now that I've owned them for a while I realize I have no clean way to look back and see if reality actually matched those projections. Like I know roughly what comes in and goes out each month...
What types of Property Management software do you use? What features do you find the most helpful?
I’m curious what software property managers here are currently using (AppFolio, Buildium, Rent Manager, self-built systems, etc.). More importantly — what’s the biggest frustration or limitation you experience with it? Is it reporting? Compliance tracking? Owner transparency? Cost? Integration ga...
Hey everyone, I’ve been analyzing the operational bottlenecks that scaling real estate brokerages face, and there is a massive invisible cash drain happening across the industry right now. Most brokerages are trapped in a cycle of buying more SaaS tools. You have one system for the MLS, another f...
One thing I’ve been noticing while looking at real estate and property management operations is that buying more software doesn’t always fix the workflow. A company might have good tools for: • Lead management • Property management • Maintenance • Accounting • Email and communication Ye...
Booking through Airbnb or Vrbo feels familiar to guests. Booking through an owner’s website means they need to feel comfortable with someone they may not know yet. Here are five things I’d check on a direct booking website: • Clear photos showing the rooms and spaces guests will actually use. • I...
An agent told me he'd worked so hard for two weeks. He hadn't closed a single conversation. He said it like it was a badge of honor. I asked him to show me what he'd actually been doing. He pulled up Claude. Then ChatGPT. Then a system he'd been building for two weeks straight — formatting templa...
Has anyone else automated their lead data entry? I was spending hours/week manually entering leads from Zillow, website forms, etc. into my CRM. Finally, set up an automation that: Watches my email for inquiries Extracts contact info automatically Creates/updates contacts in my CRM Tags lead sour...
Hey everyone, I’ve been looking closely at the backend operations of scaling regional property management firms and brokerages lately. There’s a massive structural revenue leak that almost nobody talks about. When an operation starts growing, they usually try to fix operational drag by buying mor...
I’m curious how other real estate operators handle the gaps between the software they already use. A growing business might already have a CRM, property management software, accounting tools, email, calendars, maintenance platforms, and lead sources. But when something happens in one system, does...
I keep seeing investors build separate spreadsheets for tax delinquency, absentee ownership, vacancy, and pre-foreclosure. The hard part is not getting another list—it is knowing which owners are worth a real conversation and what signal makes them relevant. Has anyone found a workflow that combi...
There has been some good discussion on here regarding the role of AI in the real estate market. So I thought I’d share my recent first-hand experience with it. Both buyer and seller were using AI heavily to make their decisions. Seller asked AI about list price, how to prepare the property etc. A...
Generating social media captions, writing emails, summarizing stuff you could just read yourself. Not really moving the needle. Where I've actually seen AI make a real difference is in the operational side. Things like texting follow up sequences that respond based on what the lead actually said,...
I signed up for Objection Proof AI and was genuinely excited to use it—but this turned into one of the worst experiences I’ve had with a service. The system was slow, clunky, and prospects could clearly tell it was AI—resulting in hang-ups. The biggest issue? Warm transfers didn’t work at all. I ...
Hello! I am currently working on finding first deal; I have a team set up for a market in GA. We have been submitting about one offer per week this past month but no luck yet on getting one accepted. My goal is to close on one this year. In the meantime, I set up my bank account via Base lane thr...
I’m curious what other investors and agents are using to improve their listing photos with AI. I’m the founder of EstateReimagine, so I’m obviously familiar with this space, but I’d genuinely like to hear what tools people are using in their own workflows, including alternatives to EstateReimagin...
Hi all. First time landlord here, about to buy my first rental in the Twin Cities. I posted elsewhere on BP asking how people find contractors, and the near universal answer was referrals from other contractors, agents, or PMs, tested with a small paid job first, then tracked over years until you...
The biggest flaw of AI is like a salesman paradox. Just like with salesman, they become a little sociopathic over time because when you’re commission based only, your emotions get so suppressed that you forget what it’s like when someone tries to sell you something. You start shifting your mind i...
If you're using an AI voice to call a seller about their most valuable asset, you're making a mistake I'll say it plainly. If AI is the thing having the actual conversation with someone about the biggest asset they own, instead of a real person, that's a bad move. Every time. AI hallucinates. It ...
I’m about to list a property for sale in Daytona Beach and I am interested in what apps / services other investors or agents are using to edit photos. Anything AI based / automated would be great. Looking for easy :) I am going to clean up the landscaping and seed the yard better, but for example...
I’m looking for a good cost segregation company for multifamily properties in Arizona, primarily in the Phoenix/Mesa area. Would especially appreciate recommendations from investors who have actually used the company for multifamily properties. A few things I care about: Experience with multifami...
What property management software or platforms are property managers using in 2026?
So I've joined BiggerPockets recently, and by joined I mean started working at the company to hopefully improve the experience for all of you. But I've been a real estate investor for a number of years and aware of the platform for much longer than that. One thing that's always been at the back o...