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Best softwares? Trying to determine benefits and limitations
What softwares do you use for managing rentals, and what are the pros/cons of different ones?
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Kenneth's right that at one or two units, a spreadsheet plus listing site really is enough. That's where most of us start, and it works fine.
The question becomes what jobs do I need handled? Once you let us know that, the tool answer falls out pretty fast.
Lease versioning and e-sign. MTR leases aren't a standard 12-month and aren't an Airbnb booking. They get messy fast if you're hand-editing in Word every time. Rent collection and deposit handling. Recurring auto-pay matters more than people expect, and deposit reconciliation is where I've seen spreadsheet-only operators struggle with.
In my experience, the manual-spreadsheet stack breaks around three units, or the moment you list on more than one platform.
How many units are you running, what platforms, and what's actually friction today? That'd help me give a sharper answer.