Project Management Tool for Flippers?

[Sasha Josephs]

Hey BP'ers! 

Any flippers/rehabbers here have experience with an online project management tool? If so, which one did you use and why or why didn't you like it? I'm looking for one for my team. Right now we are using Excel sheets to track and manage projects, and it feels like an insane way of doing things!

Sasha

[David Robertson]

Hey Sasha,

Here is a list of tools that I think are important to help manage flips/rehabs.

1. Repair Estimation/Budgeting - Ability to create detailed Scopes of Work & repair costs budgets
2. Budget Tracking - Ability to track your actual expenses against your initial budget
3. Scheduling - Ability to create a project plan & track project progress
4. Checklists/To Dos - Ability to track daily to-dos and checklists of items that need to be completed
5. Calendars - Ideally all of your Schedules & To-Dos feed into a Calendar that you can use to manage all of your projects in one location.
6. Document Management - Place to store project documents and photos

Here are some Project Management tools that you might consider:

1. Trello/Zoho Projects/Basecamp  - General project management software that includes tasks, Gantt scheduling, calendars, project forums, document storage & team collaboration tools
2. BuilderTrend / Co-Construct - These tools are built specifically for custom homebuilders/remodelers and have a lot of functionality.  The biggest flaw is there is a steep learning curve and a lot of the functionality is built for communicating with clients (homeowners), which isn't really applicable for flipping houses.
3. Smartsheet/AirTable - Provide spreadsheet style platforms with additional functionalities for uploading documents/images, assigning tasks, calendar, images, etc...

It sounds like you are sick of spreadsheets, but I developed a pretty crazy spreadsheet for managing projects which I am now transitioning into a web-based project management application as well.