Pre-screening and self-booked showings for property managers running 50-500 units. Your criteria, applied to every inquiry, before anyone books. US and Canada.
For firms running 50-500 units. Under 50 a spreadsheet still works; over 500 you have a leasing department.
One link per property. Applicants answer your screening questions. Those who meet your criteria book a showing themselves.
It ranks nobody. The site is in the bio.
The showing is the most expensive action in leasing, and most firms spend it before asking the prospect a single question. How many questions does somebody answer before you book them a showing?
A 3× income rule on a $1,650 unit asks for $59,400 a year, above the median US renter household income. The multiple is a choice, not a law, so write down exactly how you apply it. #PropertyManagement
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@heIpfullandlord Apps-no-lease usually splits into two different problems that look identical from outside: response speed and document scrutiny. Response value falls off fast once an app sits, but criteria written down before applications arrive lets you screen quick without loosening anything.
Zillow put the median rental application fee at $50 in 2025, with 73 percent of recent renters paying one, down from 84 percent in 2023. A fee charged before the showing loses the serious applicants with the rest.
Hours saved that nobody can name are not savings. Be as hard on the savings side of a software case as on the cost side, and watch the hours a week the thing takes to tend rather than the hours it claims to give back.
@BiggerPockets Most renters start with no property in mind, so the photo is what earns the tap before anyone reads the description. Curious whether anyone has real numbers on video walkthroughs or social posts moving that further, or if photos still do most of the work
Machine-translate your deposit clause at send time and you have made a commitment in a language nobody at your firm has read. We are building approved per-language packs instead, in English, French and Spanish.
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Canada's housing agency broke 2025 tenant turnover out by rent quartile: Edmonton ran 22.5 to 33.6 percent, Toronto 7.9 to 12.1. What was your own turnover last year, and did it differ by rent band?
We are designing scattered-Saturday scheduling as plain arithmetic with no model in it: order candidate times by how well each groups with what is already booked. How do you sequence a Saturday of showings today?
A criteria sheet decays the moment somebody agrees an exception out loud. Version it, give it one owner, and state the same threshold in the listing, the first reply, the application form and the sheet itself.
Renew the tenant you have, or turn the unit. The same $1,500 two-bedroom worked line by line both ways, and the gap is wider than most operators budget for. It is decided months before the lease ends. #Multifamily
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Canada's housing agency put purpose-built rental vacancy at 3.1 percent for 2025, Montreal 2.9 and Calgary 5.0. The American 7.3 is a different survey and clock. Running units on both sides of the border, which do you plan against?
Every item on your application should map to a line in your written criteria. If no criterion depends on it, you are not being thorough. You are holding personal information you cannot justify holding.
Everyone can name the tool that chased them four times after they had already replied. Stop has to mean stop, so we enforce it in the send path rather than ask a model to notice it.
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Pre-screening asks what would stop this from working. Full screening verifies what they told you. Blur the two and you end up holding personal information you cannot justify. Eleven questions answered plainly. #RentalHousing
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Zillow has 81 percent of recent renters searching on a mobile website. So your first photo is judged at thumbnail size, on a phone, against nine other listings. It is the case for tapping, not the front door.
We are designing enterprise as a different deployment of the same product, never different product behaviour. One release, one thing to improve, and no account quietly drifting into a fork nobody can upgrade.
The question that sorts software vendors: how many of my staff hours will implementation take? One who has done it many times has a number. One who says it depends has not. What else earns a straight answer?
Move-in shares bottom at 6 percent in November and 5 percent in December on Zillow's figures, and Apartment List has winter rents only 1.6 percent under the summer peak. How much longer does a November vacancy run for you than a July one?
A listing has two audiences and almost every listing is written for one. The renter it does not fit should read it and move on without costing either of you an email. The unflattering photo does that work.