Which Free Property Management Software Do You Recommend?

[Dorraine S.]

I work for a small real estate company that currently manages somewhere just under 100 homes, and we're planning to expand our property management division. The owner of the company asked me to check around and get prices for property management software. I did, and I gave him the costs. After hearing of the costs, he is now reluctant to purchase PM software.

We currently use QuickBooks, and that just ain't cuttin' it. I want to woo the owner of the real estate company with the features that property management can offer, so I want to download some free versions to play around with, showing him how PM software would be beneficial to us, especially for when we expand. Once I get him hooked on the benefits of PM software, I want to talk him into buying Yardi, but for now, I need to go the free route.

So I'm looking at some free property management software online. If you're familiar with any of them, can you tell me which ones you would recommend? If you have any pros and cons to share, I'm all ears. I don't want to dowload all of them, so I'd like to narrow it down to the high rankers, if "high ranking" free sofware even exists. LOL.