All Forum Posts by: Cj Underwood

 Appreciate the suggestion! Same price as Buildium, Doorloop, etc at ~$2000/year for 33 units so a little more expensive than I would like. I think I am going to go with Rentec Direct after doing more research over the last few weeks

 Right from their pricing page, if I were to onboard 33 units it would be $1,977/yr

I am leaning towards tenant cloud? The ACH fee for renters just throws me off, I would be annoyed as a renter that I have to pay a fee to pay rent. 
( I understand a card fee if they choose to do that way ).

Short & sweet: 

Under contract on new 33 unit building.

Currently my portfolio is all smaller buildings (2-4 unit properties).

Today I use Apartments.com for rent collection, google voice for tenant comms (&email), and stessa for book keeping.

This would be fine I am sure to onboard the extra units but at this point hoping to possibly switch to one platform to handle it all? I know the common big players, doorloop, buildium, appfolio, etc. but they are too expensive for what else is out there. I am sure there is a good software suite sub $1k/yr that would do the trick... just curious what others are using.

Starting to dig into Tenant cloud, baselane, turbo tenant, etc.

Main things that come to mind that I really want are:
    - automated rent collection (free ach, a fee is a scam)
    - maintenance requests in tenant portal
    - book keeping (hopefully real estate specific like stessa style)
- easy onboarding & tenant management

Appreciate any conversation in advance - 

No place to do that where this is located unfortunately or I would've... but that also doesn't help answer my question lol 

@Carl C. Essentially what I am asking is, as soon as I turn the Hot and Cold water back on in that bathroom(where I converted from C to Pex), I need to finish putting cement board on the wall, etc. which will then make it so I don't have access to those shut offs anymore. Once the water is on it mixes hot and cold with just the rough in valve installed. Just didn't know if it was OK to install the cartridge sooner (before tilework was done) to avoid having the water mixing. Every video I watch they seem to all install the cartridge / fixtures as a last step.

I am renovating my small full bathroom (shower is only 3' x 3'), bathroom is like 5' x 5'.

I have it fully gutted and replaced subfloor where necessary. I have switched the plumbing from copper to pex and have the new rough in valve installed. When I turned the water back on the rough in valve I am assuming is mixing the hot and cold water so we dont have hot water anywhere. Is it OK to install the cartridge now before the tile is installed or how does one avoid this issue while doing the work DIY and not able to work on it 10 hours a day where its ok to not have hot water for 1/2 days.

I have shutoff valves where I made the copper to pex conversion but I need to turn the water back on... seal the wall up with cement board so I can continue and waterproof it, tile it, etc. Just not sure how fast I can get it done and dont want to not have hot water for weeks lol.

Probably an easy question but I cant really find any info about what people do to avoid this. The Rough in valve does NOT have shut off valves integrated on it.

Thanks for any input!

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