My bad, I wanted to be broad enough to generate responses from many facets.
My question is trying to zoom in on the current state of how properties are maintained. I want to hear from professionals what problems they believe are still unsolvable (whether its 10 or 100 units being managed) in the age of the internet. I have yet to see a software developed that is focused on tenant retention/portfolio growth and want to see what is currently out there if it already exists.
Why are these prior features important in a software? Because growth is your path to financial freedom and retention is your sustainability; it also means your tenant is happy and that should be your utmost priority. There are also socioeconomic implications of the rise of vacant housing across the country. This leads to more crime, government costs and surburbial nomads. Businesses suffer at the hand of new development and anticipated population growth in new parts of the city. Our environment also is at risk for pollution as we spread ourselves thin.
Predictive data analytics and cheap hardware have just recently been disrupting many industries with settled orthodoxies of operation and I believe property management is still operating on mostly the same ideas (again I am not a professional, just an observation).
Getting people into renovated and recycled homes is empowering to neighborhoods and to those that maintain them.
I know I rambled but if anybody has any interest in moving this discussion forward or further questions on my prompt I would love to hear from you, thanks a lot.