RentBoss

RentBoss is a rental property management software for individual landlords with built-in lease agreement organizer. This simple, affordable and feature-packed tool tracks tenants, rental properties and expenses.

Pros: An organizer program that can be used to manage rental properties for a small and medium sized rental business. Adding properties and tenants and related details, modifying/updating the same is fairly easy. For consolidating look at these is available as various forms. Searching/sorting options, various wizards along with a recycle bin the application makes it easy to handle different properties even when they are scattered over a location or even over several locations. It’s links with a mapping site makes location of properties available on maps.

Lease agreements can be created from a boiler plate by customizing with specific tenant details, lease term and other details. Several boiler plates can be used and managing/ organizing of the agreements is possible through this interface. Reminders can be set for expiring leases.

Income details are compiled as are expense details. Reports consolidate these for quick viewing and overall picture. Expense reports can capture details down to individual work orders initiated for repair and maintenance etc. These reports could be exported to excel sheets for further analysis if necessary. Reminders for late rent payments also can be set.

Reports can be generated several ways; for a building, for a particular rental unit, history of tenants and so on. Generally speaking the whole interface is reasonably intuitive and simple.

Cons: Forms are not very well designed. Quite often there is not enough space for various columns. While export to excel is possible no import options are provided.

Overall: Except for the two problems indicated in the earlier section the application works quite well and serves the stated purpose very well. A 4 star rating.

RentBoss is property management software with modern look and feel that has been specially created from small to mid-size property owners and comes with a unique lease agreement organizer feature. The software is brainlessly simple and very easy to operate. The interface is cleverly designed to help landlords have important information readily available. With simple searching/sorting options, several different Wizards and a Recycle Bin, RentBoss easily handles records for multiple properties and apartment complexes.
The Program Tenant module contains renter data - name, address, SSN, property occupied, rent paid, family members/other occupants, photos, history of requests/complains and notes. The Building module holds information about rental units - location, rent, size, current status, photos, etc. This module contains a Building Wizard that makes adding a new property fast and easy, which is very important for managers with multiple units to run. Income and Expenses modules do exactly what their name implies. Besides maintenance and upkeep expenses, RentBoss tracks employee salary and contractor fees. The Work Order module is used to schedule and track work orders requested or add new tasks to the To Do list performed.
To make sure that property owner did not forget about an expiring lease agreement or a late rent payment, RentBoss comes with a handy reminder option. Another important feature is a built-in reporter module. Property managers can print a variety of reports - tenant report, rental unit report, income report and so on. More importantly, RentBoss is easily customizable and can be altered to contain any relevant information or additional reports.
If you are looking for a straightforward solution that will help you optimize your rental business without breaking your bank account, RentBoss is just what you need. Think of it as of a 24-hour employee you don't have to pay to.