All Forum Posts by: Brad Larsen

Good day all. We are trying to just get a tighter lid on operations, for background we are a family-owned group with about 115 properties. I'm the owner's nephew and de facto "computer wiz" because I am relatively savvy,  but I have never used any property management software before. I guess what we'd like is a program that is user-friendly/ intuitive, can keep easy track of payments, maintenance work orders, and if it can possibly communicate with Quickbooks or tax software or can at least compile things in a format which is easy to integrate into tax accounting that would be great. I dont think they want to spend  a lot, but,  it's also probably not avoidable, and in ranking order of what's important it's not as important as ease of use/integration. any feedback is great and thanks for your time. I go by "R.J." a 'nice-to-meet-you' to everyone. 

@Brad Larsen I am assuming self showing requires an empty unit. I don't think any of my tenants would be like this if their stuff was still in the unit.

@Brad Larsen I am assuming self showing requires an empty unit. I don't think any of my tenants would be like this if their stuff was still in the unit.

New out of state investor, looking for a good property manager….Any Help???

Hello San Antonio!! I am new to BiggerPockets, but I am not an investor or an agent, but have been considering either getting my license or becoming an investor lately though. 

I also am looking at property management companies for small multifamily in Orlando.  What companies have been good for people.

Reaching out to all Property Managers out there. 

I have a self-managed portfolio of SFRs in multiple locations. In each of them I hire a realtor whenever I need to find new tenants. They take calls, post ads, arrange showing times with existing tenants who are leaving (when they gave proper notice, but still reside in the unit), collect applications, answer a ton of questions, do paperwork, hand over the keys..... All-n-all doing lots of time consuming work for which I am happy to pay them 1/2 - 1 month of rent.

However a property management company would probably not spend so much money since it would cut into their revenue. Doing it on their own would imply having to do all of the above mentioned work all over the area they cover. For a city like Toronto where I reside, that would mean 1 hour drive just to get to the rental and another hour to get back. That's a lot of wasted effort. So how do property managers do it: do they drive around or do they hire realtors for each supported location or is there a better approach I did not mention?

Thanks in advance. Really curious about this one.

I use Buildium, and it works well for the property management side of things. I did not try out enough of the others. Buildium's rep sold me on the fact that it would handle the Accounting side of the business as well. I was was Tenant Cloud and Quickbooks. Quickbooks was pushing everything to online, with what would have been a pretty decent price increase for me because of all the different classes. Anyway, the accounting side of Buildium is very clunky to use. I'm an accountant by trade and i have it working for me in a way i can use but wouldn't recommend it if you need all your accounting on the platform. I will in the future be looking at other platforms that include a decent accounting side as well as property management 

Hello all

I am looking for to move one of my properties to a property manager in Houston, I am really bad selecting tenants. any recomendation?

Thanks in advance.

Raul