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All Forum Posts by: Simon W.

Simon W. has started 47 posts and replied 1265 times.

Post: Bank that works well with multiple accounts

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  • Lehigh Valley PA & New York City
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You won't need 1 account for each, but I recommend 2 accounts per LLC. One for security deposit and one for operating/rental.

Post: Bank that works well with multiple accounts

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Quote from @Jacob P.:

Hi all,

Question pretty much as in the title.

We have 3 rental properties. Looking to balance Keeping It Simple and being on top of things.

For years, we used Ally. What I loved about them was that each property could have it's own checking account. All expenses would go on each account and it made year end accounting very easy.

Ally alerted us that they are closing our accounts due to our failure to "properly secure" our accounts. I have no idea why (never had a single fraud issue), but after spending several hours going down the rabbithole of figuring why this happened, we just want a solution.

Some of the other banks we are with seem to make it overly complicated to have more than a single account.

Any recos? Or other solutions we should consider?


It is probably because Ally realizes you are using it for rentals. Ally does not offer commercial checking accounts and the personal checking accounts are only for personal uses.

Do you have an LLC for these properties? There are different solutions but it depends on your situation.

You will get a lot of different answers here.

Feel free to email me.

Post: Buildium Portal Owner Statements

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you should be able to request from the PM to have it email it to you.

Post: Buildium Portal Owner Statements

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Buildium won't send it automatically. The PM company has to generate these owner statements and emails them.

Post: Property Management Software

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Unfortunately, I do not think there is another software that handles CAM better than Yardi. Yardi Voyager 7s especially.

Post: Expert Property Management Accounting Services

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Post: Unlock Your Property Management Potential!

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Post: Cancel Pro Membership

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Quote from @Adam G.:

Hey Corey, did you figure this out?  I am having the exact same issue, I have already wasted too much time on this. Still waiting for "support" to get back to me.  I'm trying to withhold judgement here but this has me livid.


 I am not an admin, but you don't look like you are a Pro Member.

Post: Seller Financing Standards

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Seller financing is very hard to get.

Most seller has the intent of collecting all the money upfront for a new property.

To entice the seller to accept a low down payment, agree to the purchase price without negotiating, cover the closing costs and if there are any commissions involved with brokers/agents.

There isn't a typical or average seller finance deal. 

Post: Which project management software should I use?

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Quote from @Justin Wong:

Hey everyone- I'm considering building some investment properties and am interested in chatting with builders, contractors or property owners who have used either Procore or Buildertrend to manage their projects. Can't decide which is better so I'd love to connect with anyone who has used one or both of these tools to figure out what they liked/disliked etc.


Those two platforms are completely different from each other.

I haven't used any of those two, however, I was a developmental controller at one point in my life and the construction team was using Procore as they were targeting large projects such as 100+ units groundup development.

I believe BuilderTrend is made for remodelers and home builders.

Right now, I am partnered up with someone to do construction and I am just handling all the financial side of things, currently using Monday and QBO to make it work.