Lately, I was introduced to Buildium while looking for a technique 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 control properties of any size.

The edition I previewed was The Landlord Edition. This package incorporates the following features :

* the facility to keep track of leases and renter info
* the facility to manage upkeep jobs for your properties
* web-based parts to get rental applications, market properties for rent, take payments and allow renters to check their account on-line.

It might no-doubt be really valuable to a property owner with multiple buildings to manage. As an example, sometimes there's a property chief on site at each building of which there are multiple spread across the town.

In this position Buildium Property manager Edition would be perfect. Since the application is web based, there is not any need to setup and maintain the infrastructure critical to maintain multiple links into a central location where the information are stored. Instead, all that is obligatory at every location is a low-grade computer with net connectivity and Buildium's application does the rest.

are you able to tell that I'm a recovering network engineer?

For my personal situation though, I store this info using a mix of Excel spreadsheets and a full-blown accounting system ( not Quickbooks ), and while I do maintain sort of a modest info infrastructure, I feel that it's required thanks to the fact that i live in central Florida on the east coast.

The point being that a couple of years gone we had no less than 3 major hurricanes grace us with their presence. Both times we lost power for no less than ten days and went without web connectivity for no less than 2 weeks. While we could power our information infrastructure hereabouts with generators, we relied on the local cable company for web access. For us to not have access to our accounting and tenant information for that length of time in an emergency situation like this would've been devitalizing to say the least. In other words, you couldn't integrate the functionality directly 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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