Accepting rents online

[Jennifer Hollstein]

My family has an apartment complex and currently we do not have a website. I want to get a website for our complex to put useful information on there for the tenants.

One of the big things I want is for tenants to be able to do auto pay for their rents. Many of them drop off checks at our home mailbox, and I want to make it easier for them.

How do I do this? I am looking for an easy inexpensive option.

Also what are some other features and benefits my new site for the complex should have.

Link for local govt, police

garbage collection

tenant requirements for lease- credit scores and background checklist?

Thanks for your help

[Bryan L.]

In the past, I used a service called clearnow (just google it).  I have also worked a system where I would give my tenants deposit slips to a bank account that I used only for collecting rents.  They were instructed to write their address on the deposit slip.  I could go onto online banking and view the deposit slips to see who had paid.  Also, my PM has recently started taking rent payments by debit and/or credit card.  There is a small cost to this, but he says that they increased collection rate more than makes up for the cost.