Landlord Technologies

[Chris A.]

Hi there.  I own a smaller portfolio of multifamily properties (less than 50 units) and am curious if the Bigger Pockets world has any favorite apps, websites, accounting/management software, etc. that are recommended and make life as a landlord easier.  Areas of interest include:

• Tenant Screening
• Marketing available units
• Accounting
• Rent Collection

Looking forward to hearing from you.  

Thanks.

[David Hedges]

when I was doing the property management in the past I liked these:

for background checks and screening
- LPA http://www.thelpa.com

  the lpa has a database of problem tenants to search and that they allow you to add to. also there are a lot of legal forms and updates that are specific to each state. 

-tvs https://www.tenantverification.com/

  tvs was the service I'd use to run credit/criminal/eviction checks on prospective tenants

as for the others, a I would track a lot on spreadsheets or databases I keep. for estimating area rents, I wrote an script to pull all of the rent info for my area, parse it all by city/town and in some cases neighborhood name, then use the data on rent, square footage, and number of bedrooms to generate averages and watch trends in the rates for each area.