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No, I think they're all pretty similar on cost. Keep your park in top shape with regular inspections, preventative maintenance, and streamlined workflows. And when the unexpected occurs—whether that’s a storm or an event—trust that you have the tools in place to take care of everything.
We’ve used our in-house property management experience to customize a set of features to accommodate the manufactured home park industry. Our powerful management suite simplifies your day to day operations and drastically improves access to your most important business metrics. To help you understand the wide array of software at your fingertips, we’ve created a list of useful tools that could help you manage your park. In general, you’ll notice that some of the software on this list is specifically geared towards managing a mobile home park. Some of the recommendations used for other business ventures may have their place as a quality solution to park management. The master login enables users to set up a job, meeting, schedule, task, or anything else.
Using Software To Better Manage Your Property
Nearly 100 parks and conservancies trust Cartegraph to help manage over 1 million park assets. It takes a lot of people to keep a park safe and beautiful. From horticulture to repairs, use Cartegraph to effectively track every hour and know how much each activity costs.
Will it be just you, or will you have your managers involved? Or will you have others involved somewhere between you and the managers? So which is the easiest for them to handle?
Software to manage your park and everything in it.
So, think about that also when you're looking at your software packages. You need something that can provide statements that not only blow you away, but will also blow away your banker. Because you cannot every scrimp on accounting. When I bought my first park, the very first thing I knew I had to do, cause I am not good at accounting, was I had to get a really strong, competent bookkeeper. And step two, you've gotta have the correct software. That is a very, very important tool for any park owner to do the job effectively.
Software to manage your park and everything in it. Know what assets you have, where they’re located, and what condition they’re in. Perform inspections, add notes, and attach photos from the field.
Episode 52: Using Software To Better Manage Your Property Transcript
When you're looking at software packages, it's not one size fits all. Don't be afraid to go with the unpopular one. Just because we don't use AppFolio doesn't mean that you shouldn't use AppFolio. In fact, I know a lot of park owners that use AppFolio and like it a lot. You know, you can go online in the drop of a hat to Google, and you can see demonstrations, right there, real time, right this second, of every package out there.
Your management team, landlord, and even tenants can easily communicate, make payments, and track maintenance requests within this software. So, it's a little antiquated, but yet some people really like that, because they like kind of the old school look. So, again, you know, there's freedom of choice out there.
Your data stays on your computer and you retain all non-cloud dependent functionality in the software. Park Sidekick touts itself as a complete software solution for managing your mobile home park. In the software, you can program automatic billing and keep track of metered utilities. Appfolio can help you by providing quality reporting.
The Consultant creates a complete, comprehensive plan for the Management, Operations, Repair, Maintenance, Improvement, and Exit Strategy. Switching between multiple operations is as simple as using a drop down menu. Using the multiple operations feature set to generate reports for an entire organization or drill down into regional and single operations with ease. To clarify, using Cozy is like having an effective employee on your team.
The Off-Site Manager may be an individual, a small or large group, or a professional Property Management company. The Off-Site Manager usually reports to the Property Owner, unless there is a Mobile Home Park Consultant in the loop, like RLM Properties. The Offsite Manager oversees the On-Site Manager and other onsite employee staff. Most professional off-site managers are very professional and good at what they do. They just don’t do many Mobile Home Parks.
Those are the five big dials on any park owner's dashboard. But think how those five dials can very much be aided by that software. Also, think about who all is gonna be using the software.
But, typically, QuickBooks is kind of your introductory spot. Looking to really wow your visitors? Stop wasting time with paper work orders. Instead, use your smartphone or iPad to track asset inventory, condition, maintenance history, labor hours, and more. Deliver services more efficiently, and keep your park beautiful year-round with regular inspections and preventative maintenance.
And, if they realizes that you don’t keep accurate books, they might start stealing. Syrasoft has served property and manufactured housing park needs for over 25 years. Managers and owners can rest easy on that expertise while utilizing tools built on decades of experience from home, the office or on the go. First on the list is Quickbooks.
It is one of the most popular software setups for managing finances, including employee payroll. Notably, Quickbooks will help you manage the finance side of your mobile home park business and make it easy to share information with your accountant. Now, will software manage your business? You still have to have a great park manager.
The data you need for park planning, council sessions, and neighborhood meetings is available anywhere. And here’s a huge selling point – Rent Manager will integrate with a variety of other software options for business analytics, inspections, maintenance, and more. The first one is called Manage America. And Manage America is a fairly expensive software program, and I'm not going to even give you the pricing. I'm not really sure of it myself. But I know that when we looked at these compared together, it was the most expensive of the three I'm gonna talk about.
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