AppFolio vs. Buildium: Help!

[Abigail K.]

Hi there,

There are a lot of posts on this topic but none I could find with extremely recent testimonials on Buildium. I am deciding between these two software options for my portfolio of about 100 units and was initially pretty sold on Buildium until they told me there was a one-time $99 fee for each tenant to set up a bank account for online rent payments. Given fairly regular turnover and the fact that most of our tenants pay online (and we would like to encourage that) this turns into a pretty substantial cost for us (way over Appfolio's minimums). What have you found are the pro's and con's with each of these guys? I have read some pretty scary things about Appfolio's accounting and expense tracking/imports/compatibility with quickbooks and am wondering if any of these glitches have been addressed since the last reviews were posted on here 1 year+ ago.