I'm attempting to improve the systems in place at the company I work for and I'd love some suggestions about various things such as: Accepting electronic payments (we only accept checks!)?Sending rent bills by email?Card systems for laundry? Water billed separately? Dealing with preexisting violations of rules. I'd like to hear your feedback here or we can connect and DM each other. Feel free to ask me any questions you have.

@Ramsey Rimkeit it sounds like the company you work for just needs some basic modernization updates here. I personally just signed up for Appfolio after extensive research to manage my own portfolio here in the Chicago area. You might look into Appfolio or Buildium for electronic rent collection, etc. That will take care of most of your issues in my opinion. As for laundry, I also am testing out Payrange, which is a system that uses blue tooth to connect to tenants' phones. The tenant downloads the app and loads/pays for laundry through the app. It is a brilliant system, and I no longer have to collect coins at the building where I installed it!

As a fellow property manager from Houston, I would highly recommend you and your company join NARPM. This is the national organization that can answer every question that you have, to improve every aspect of property management. Every vendor that caters the industry would be at your fingertips from software to services and outsourcing. Very highly recommend this if you are in the industry.If you need more information, please contact me and I will be more than glad to help or answer any questions.

@Elias Camhi hit it on the head with joining NARPM and there is also some great proeprty management podcasts and facebook groups that you can be dropping these questions into. @Ramsey Rimkeit

Hey @Ramsey Rimkeit you should reach out to @Mark Ainley; he's one of the best PMs in Chicago and may be able to give some good insights.

Sorry if I wasn't clear: I am a full-time property manager.

@Ramsey Rimkeit - @John Warren made some great suggestions. It kinda sounds like you need a full-time property manager for some of those issues but others could just be automated via software.I know appfolio and buildium are typically geared towards larger landlords. I personally like Cozy (super intuitive rent collection) and I just recently heard of a software called Hemlane that seems very interesting.

Thanks @Tony Angelos I'll reach out to him! @John Warren Thanks for your reply! The company I work for definitely needs some modernization. It's a third-generation property management company and a bunch of their systems are behind the times. I've already made a few changes through requests. However, they already work with Manage America property management software. I wouldn't recommend it and I would switch to something else if I were the one choosing. I need a stand-alone solution for accepting payments. Their bank has Popmoney which is similar to Zelle. I'm also going to look into other options as well.Payrange looks like a great solution. I'm going to find out if it will work with the washers and dryers we have here.