How do you track rents?

[Jeff Stein]

I am sitting here and mentally preparing for next month and entering all the rent checks and direct deposits into my poorly designed Excel spreadsheet. I wanted to ask as there must be a better way to keep track of rent from each tenant as compared to what I’m doing.

For some background, I am a small landlord in Milwaukee Wisconsin currently 23 tenants who paid with a mixture of physical checks dropped off at the office and online direct deposits and cozy.co.

What ways do you use to keep track of rent, the pros and cons of your way?