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Validation request: Is automated lease/vendor/asset tracking actually useful?
Looking for honest perspectives from people managing multiple properties.
Background: I'm a QuickBooks expert who owns commercial property and handles CRE tax returns. I keep running into the same operational headaches across my own properties and seeing the same issues with clients - 1099 scrambles every January, missed lease escalations, surprise capital expenses, insurance renewals that sneak up on you.
What I'm thinking about building:
A platform that automates the tracking of all this stuff:
- AI extracts lease terms from PDFs (no more manual entry)
- Tracks vendor payments and flags 1099 requirements automatically
- Alerts for insurance renewals at 90/60/30 days out
- Monitors capital asset lifecycles - know your HVAC is 18 years old before it dies
- Automates CAM reconciliation calculations
- Integrates with bookkeeping/financial planning
What I need to know:
- Are these actually widespread pain points or niche problems?
- What tools are people currently using that work well?
- Would you actually use something like this or is "another tool to manage" just more overhead?
- What am I missing about how people currently handle this?
Targeting landlords with 5-25 units - past the single property stage but not big enough for enterprise software that costs $500+/month.
If you're in this range, I'd really value your take on whether this is worth building or if there are better solutions already out there.