Lately, I was introduced to Buildium while looking for a strategy to accept electronic rent payments from my tenants. I subscribed to the 15-day free trial and here is my experience :

Buildium's product is a pretty slick net-based application which can be used to manage properties of any size. There are essentially three editions ; The owner Edition for smaller operations where a landlord/manager can manage some single-family rental houses or apartment units, The Property manager Edition which is meant to manage multiple apartment complexes, and The organisation Edition which is set up to help management of condominium associations.
The edition I previewed was The Landlord Edition. This package incorporates the following features :

* A simple accounting function to track rents, fees and management expenses
* the ability to manage maintenance jobs for your properties
* net-based parts to get rental applications, market properties for rent, accept payments and allow tenants to check their account on-line.

It would no-doubt be awfully valuable to a property owner with multiple buildings to manage. For example, sometimes there's a property manager on site at each building of which there are multiple spread across the town. In this situation , Buildium Property Manager Edition would be perfect. Since the application is web based, there's no need to setup and maintain the infrastructure critical to maintain multiple links into a central location where the data are stored. Instead, all that's required at each location is a low-grade PC with net connectivity and Buildium's application does the rest.
can you tell that I'm a recovering network engineer?


The point being that a few years gone we had no less than three major hurricanes grace us with their presence. For us to not have access to our accounting and tenant information for that length of time in a crisis situation such as this would be debilitating to say the least.

In other words, you couldn't integrate the functionality right into your own internet site with a product like PayPal.
So, all in all, In my buildium review I think that Buildium has a great, well integrated product that could make life easier for many people.

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