A property manager can make a landlord’s life easier, but with the complexities surrounding property management, landlords have begun looking for ways to improve efficiency in their workflow. If you’re one of those landlords, you’re in the right place.
Luckily for you, many of the tedious, time-consuming tasks allocated to property managers can be automated, thanks to property management software designed to make your life easier.
You can now automate tasks like collecting rent, screening tenants, acquiring and signing lease agreements, and serving eviction notices. Although property managers can accomplish these tasks too, nothing beats automation when it comes to speed, efficiency, and ease of use.
And the good news is that automated landlord duties are right at your fingertips. Here are some of your duties you can begin automating today:
Collecting rent
Besides being generally a lot slower than automated payment methods, traditional payment methods are more difficult to document. As a result, rent payment disputes can turn into an utter nightmare for landlords.
That’s why it’s essential that you keep a detailed record of rent payments. Of course, this is true no matter what kind of payment you accept, whether it’s traditional or automated, but you should always be on top of your payment record.
With apps and digital services like PayPal, Venmo, and Apple Pay, you can easily automate your rent payments. These apps allow your tenants to pay rent using sources like credit cards, debit cards, and bank accounts.
The only catch is that there might be some transfer fees, depending on the payment method.
With automated payments, you can forget about the hassle of handling bounced checks, deciphering illegible handwriting, accepting payments over the phone, or, worst of all, counting large amounts of cash. Automated rent collections can save you a lot of time – and headaches.
Screening tenants
With automated tenant screening, landlords can receive all the tenant information they need at the same time. In an instant, landlords can review the tenant’s application, as well as their full credit, criminal, and eviction reports, thanks to a service called ezScreening.
And, instead of checking a tenant’s credit score, landlords can check what’s called ResidentScore. It’s similar to a credit score but designed specifically for landlords who want to screen applicants.
In a nutshell, it provides a customized report of a tenant’s reliability when it comes to making timely payments – and just being an overall good tenant. Credit scores can be a fairly reliable way to ascertain a tenant’s worthiness, but they don’t show the whole picture. And that’s why we have services like ResidentScore.
Thankfully, getting started with automated tenant screening couldn’t be easier. All you have to do is email a screening request to the applicant and wait for them to respond and provide the necessary information. The third and final step is receiving the screening results.
Acquiring and signing lease agreements
You can also acquire and sign lease agreements with just the click of a mouse.
Online leases are highly customizable, allowing you to tailor them according to your particular needs. With a small fee, you can even upgrade them and make them state-specific.
No more having to fumble and see whether the lease agreement includes terms or documents required by your state. You also don’t have to worry about interpreting cryptic language that’s difficult to understand.
Automated lease agreements, as the term suggests, automatically include state-specific terms and documents and present everything in simple, easy-to-understand language, https://www.ezlandlordforms.com/documents/rental-lease-agreements/.
Serving eviction notices
Let’s be real. Eviction is no fun business for anyone. Whether the tenant has to leave because of unpaid rent or a string of lease violations, the landlord has to specify why the eviction notice is being served and the date by which the tenant must vacate the premises.
If you’re looking for a quicker, more hassle-free way to prepare and serve an eviction notice, you can choose from a selection of templates.
And they’re not all eviction letters. There are also notices to pay rent, notices of non-compliance, notices to vacate (not to be confused with eviction notices), complaints for eviction and damages, and services of notice.
Of course, the documents that are available to you will depend on your state, but this should give you a general idea of what you can expect to find.
Although this process isn’t quite as “automated” as the other landlord duties described above, taking advantage of eviction notice templates can save you a lot of time and energy.
Your one-stop-shop for landlords
So, want to automate all your landlord duties without hiring a property manager? Look no further than EZlandlordforms, which offers automated tenant screening services, state-specific lawyer-written lease agreements, eviction notices, and much more.
This one-stop-shop for landlords, itself run by landlords, is all about forging strong landlord-tenant relationships and easing the landlord’s overall workflow.
As landlords ourselves, we know that being a landlord is no easy business, and that’s why we’ve automated everything for you.
Visit our website today to take advantage of our wealth of resources for landlords or to learn more about our exceptional services.
