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Top property tech tools for modern landlords
Managing property is not always easy, especially when the expectations and requirements placed on landlords seem to be constantly shifting.
At Relab, we sniffed out a whole bunch of tech that'll help you save time, bolster your reputation and make your life so much easier!
Smart landlords are making the most of these exceptional tools to streamline the business of property investment. Here's our top picks.
A New Zealand-based company, myRent, offers innovative software for self-managing NZ landlords.
The three pillars of myRent are Advertisements, Tenant Checks and Management – offering landlords a complete solution for managing their properties.
myRent can help you find tenants by offering a listing service and integrating with other property websites such as Trade Me, OneRoof, Homes.co.nz and Real Estate.co.nz. This functionality allows you to gain maximum exposure across New Zealand's most prominent property websites and to keep your inquiries and applications organised in one place. In addition, the application process is mega simplified with an easy inbox system.
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The app also offers comprehensive credit and background checks to complete the picture of your future tenants.
The management part of the app offers tools to support rent collection, tenancy agreements, renewals, bonds, digital inspections, maintenance, bills and expense tracking.
myRent is a must-have for Kiwi landlords! I actually use this one myself and couldn't rate it higher!
Get started for as little as $10 per month on myRent.
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Need a quick lay of the land when it comes to Kiwi tradies? NoCowboys will offer a fair and honest review of your local tradespeople – making it easy for you to find maintenance support in an increasingly busy sector.
NoCowboys follows 4 simple steps:
1. Search - Search the NoCowboys database for someone who can assist you. Look for someone who works nearby, and who has good ratings and reviews.
2. Assess - Read their reviews and feedback to make a decision. Their rating system is fair and balanced, so you get quality intel.
3. Contact & Negotiate - When you're ready to contact, swap info and get your job done.
4. Pay it Forward - When the job's complete, pay it forward by leaving a review.
Unless you are given a personal recommendation by someone you trust, it's impossible to tell how reliable, honest or fair any tradesperson might be. NoCowboys offers you a safety net when searching for tradespeople. Most importantly, you can be sure you will get the job done right the first time!
Free to search, $129 per month for businesses to list
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Quashed is a new startup in the property tech space here in New Zealand. It allows landlords and property investors to see and manage all their insurance policies in one place.
For investors with 2+ properties, Quashed offers a simple overview of all their insurances, the total premiums and expiry dates. Quashed also acts as a digital filing cabinet, allowing you to store insurance documents online for safety and easy access. In just one click, a landlord can share their insurance information securely to those who need it.
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Quashed is a free to use platform!
If you've been a landlord for some time, or even a savvy tenant, you know that a thorough move-in inspection is crucial for safeguarding your investment. To avoid any miscommunication between tenants, or any resulting disputes around financials, deposits or bonds later down the line, it's vital to document all damages and imperfections that you can see before officially moving in. The more detailed a move-in checklist is, the better.
This process, however, is often time-consuming and tedious.
Tap Inspect will save you hours per each home inspection by offering an easy-to-use and organised framework to follow. Inside the Tap Inspect app, you can capture and store photos of existing damages, add notes to your photos, create a final inspection report and edit it online.
With generations of home inspection experience, the Tap Inspect team built the report writing platform that they wanted to use for their own inspection businesses. As a result, the Tap Inspect mobile app is one of the simplest report writing systems available, ensuring your property inspection is well documented, reported, and saved into a report all before leaving the property.
Plans start at $5 (USD) per report
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The benefits of a tool like AroundMe may not be as blindingly obvious for a landlord – however in real estate, you are selling an experience.
A powerful listing will outline all that a house offers, including amenities located near their location. AroundMe can support landlords in improving their listings by adding detailed descriptions of local dining, entertainment, and other facilities in proximity to their rentals. Such details can help landlords create killer property listings, reducing vacancy rates and renting out at a better price.
Priced from $0.99 in the app store
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Landlord Studio simplifies rental accounting and management for DIY landlords. The app allows you to track income and expenses, generate reports, screen tenants, reconcile bank transactions and collect rent online – all in one place! Bliss.
This tool is great if you need to manage more than one property, ensuring you do not lose track of various documents, expenses and the endless barrage of paperwork that comes with property management.
Beyond being the ultimate time-saver, the app has a clean, minimalistic interface and intuitive interface. Simplicity and ease-of-use is critical for landlords, especially when they manage multiple properties or work other jobs.
The dashboard can display each property with all corresponding details: rent collected, income and expenses for the past year. It is available on the iPhone and IPad on a free trial with in-app purchases.
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Subscriptions start at $5.99 per month for their start plan
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Of course! There’s a ton of great data and insights available for investors on Relab, and in fact property investors are one of our strongest customer bases.
You can easily see a rental estimate and rental yield estimate on the right hand side bar of any property to help you work out if your deal will work. Check for comp properties in the area to make sure you're not paying too much, see school zoning and demographic info for the desired property, check sales history and valuation and even see where building and resource consent has been granted around you, to help future proof your investment.
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Relab is a monthly subscription and pricing starts at $37.42 per month.
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Matterport makes it quick and easy to create immersive 3D digital twins ideal for back-to-work planning, listing or appraising properties, documenting makeover projects, and more. Tools such as Matterport ensure you have well-documented information and imagery to bolster your listing, and ensure you're captivating an audience and showing off your property in its best light.
A 3D virtual tour helps agents and landlords secure buyers/tenants for properties faster and at a higher price.
According to the Matterport website:
As well as creating phenomenal and accurate 3D virtual tours of buildings and spaces, Matterport's software is full of excellent features that help you share your tours with the world.
Not a professional photographer? No worries. Matterport can be used with a range of smartphone cameras, through to professional grade cameras.
Matterport is a powerful marketing tool that shouldn't be overlooked if you're hoping to secure an abundance of interest, and a great price, for your property.
Matterport lets you get started for free, then offers a variety of plans to suit your needs.
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The app that supported all of through a global pandemic, Zoom allows you to offer a virtual property tour to potential tenants who may live out of town. And the beauty of Zoom is that most people either already have the app installed or have heard of it.
Zoom offers simplified video conferencing and messaging across any device, making it super simple to join and collaborate from any device.
Zoom Meetings syncs with your calendar system too, which ensures clients are likely to "show up" on time to your virtual meeting.
Additionally, features such as Waiting Rooms mean that you can control who is joining your Zoom room. This ensures you can offer a focused and uninterrupted experience for clients.
The chat function means people can ask questions throughout the tour too, without needing to display their camera or audio if they're camera shy.
Zoom tours are very personal and engaging, offering a more interactive way to show off your property online.
Here's a great video on how Zoom can support you through this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxT4J-35j5s
There are so many incredible apps and tools out there for property investors and landlords. We couldn't just pick 2 or 3! In my personal experience, an app that frees up your time, and allows your workflow to run far more smoothly is, in my opinion, well worth the extra few bucks a month! All of these products are affordable, and not only do they save you time, but they save you from undue stress!
You might also find these articles useful:
What are the benefits of property management for your rental?
New proposed tax changes for property investors; What you need to know to plan ahead
10 Best podcasts for property investors
At Relab, we sniffed out a whole bunch of tech that'll help you save time, bolster your reputation and make your life so much easier!
Smart landlords are making the most of these exceptional tools to streamline the business of property investment. Here's our top picks.
A New Zealand-based company, myRent, offers innovative software for self-managing NZ landlords.
The three pillars of myRent are Advertisements, Tenant Checks and Management – offering landlords a complete solution for managing their properties.
myRent can help you find tenants by offering a listing service and integrating with other property websites such as Trade Me, OneRoof, Homes.co.nz and Real Estate.co.nz. This functionality allows you to gain maximum exposure across New Zealand's most prominent property websites and to keep your inquiries and applications organised in one place. In addition, the application process is mega simplified with an easy inbox system.
The app also offers comprehensive credit and background checks to complete the picture of your future tenants.
The management part of the app offers tools to support rent collection, tenancy agreements, renewals, bonds, digital inspections, maintenance, bills and expense tracking.
myRent is a must-have for Kiwi landlords! I actually use this one myself and couldn't rate it higher!
How much does myRent cost?
Get started for as little as $10 per month on myRent.
Need a quick lay of the land when it comes to Kiwi tradies? NoCowboys will offer a fair and honest review of your local tradespeople – making it easy for you to find maintenance support in an increasingly busy sector.
NoCowboys follows 4 simple steps:
1. Search - Search the NoCowboys database for someone who can assist you. Look for someone who works nearby, and who has good ratings and reviews.
2. Assess - Read their reviews and feedback to make a decision. Their rating system is fair and balanced, so you get quality intel.
3. Contact & Negotiate - When you're ready to contact, swap info and get your job done.
4. Pay it Forward - When the job's complete, pay it forward by leaving a review.
Unless you are given a personal recommendation by someone you trust, it's impossible to tell how reliable, honest or fair any tradesperson might be. NoCowboys offers you a safety net when searching for tradespeople. Most importantly, you can be sure you will get the job done right the first time!
How much does NoCowboys cost?
Free to search, $129 per month for businesses to list
Quashed is a new startup in the property tech space here in New Zealand. It allows landlords and property investors to see and manage all their insurance policies in one place.
For investors with 2+ properties, Quashed offers a simple overview of all their insurances, the total premiums and expiry dates. Quashed also acts as a digital filing cabinet, allowing you to store insurance documents online for safety and easy access. In just one click, a landlord can share their insurance information securely to those who need it.
How much does Quashed cost?
Quashed is a free to use platform!
If you've been a landlord for some time, or even a savvy tenant, you know that a thorough move-in inspection is crucial for safeguarding your investment. To avoid any miscommunication between tenants, or any resulting disputes around financials, deposits or bonds later down the line, it's vital to document all damages and imperfections that you can see before officially moving in. The more detailed a move-in checklist is, the better.
This process, however, is often time-consuming and tedious.
Tap Inspect will save you hours per each home inspection by offering an easy-to-use and organised framework to follow. Inside the Tap Inspect app, you can capture and store photos of existing damages, add notes to your photos, create a final inspection report and edit it online.
With generations of home inspection experience, the Tap Inspect team built the report writing platform that they wanted to use for their own inspection businesses. As a result, the Tap Inspect mobile app is one of the simplest report writing systems available, ensuring your property inspection is well documented, reported, and saved into a report all before leaving the property.
How much does Tap Inspect cost?
Plans start at $5 (USD) per report
The benefits of a tool like AroundMe may not be as blindingly obvious for a landlord – however in real estate, you are selling an experience.
A powerful listing will outline all that a house offers, including amenities located near their location. AroundMe can support landlords in improving their listings by adding detailed descriptions of local dining, entertainment, and other facilities in proximity to their rentals. Such details can help landlords create killer property listings, reducing vacancy rates and renting out at a better price.
How much does AroundMe cost?
Priced from $0.99 in the app store
Landlord Studio simplifies rental accounting and management for DIY landlords. The app allows you to track income and expenses, generate reports, screen tenants, reconcile bank transactions and collect rent online – all in one place! Bliss.
This tool is great if you need to manage more than one property, ensuring you do not lose track of various documents, expenses and the endless barrage of paperwork that comes with property management.
Beyond being the ultimate time-saver, the app has a clean, minimalistic interface and intuitive interface. Simplicity and ease-of-use is critical for landlords, especially when they manage multiple properties or work other jobs.
The dashboard can display each property with all corresponding details: rent collected, income and expenses for the past year. It is available on the iPhone and IPad on a free trial with in-app purchases.
How much does Landlord Studio cost?
Subscriptions start at $5.99 per month for their start plan
Of course! There’s a ton of great data and insights available for investors on Relab, and in fact property investors are one of our strongest customer bases.
You can easily see a rental estimate and rental yield estimate on the right hand side bar of any property to help you work out if your deal will work. Check for comp properties in the area to make sure you're not paying too much, see school zoning and demographic info for the desired property, check sales history and valuation and even see where building and resource consent has been granted around you, to help future proof your investment.
How much does Relab cost?
Relab is a monthly subscription and pricing starts at $37.42 per month.
Matterport makes it quick and easy to create immersive 3D digital twins ideal for back-to-work planning, listing or appraising properties, documenting makeover projects, and more. Tools such as Matterport ensure you have well-documented information and imagery to bolster your listing, and ensure you're captivating an audience and showing off your property in its best light.
A 3D virtual tour helps agents and landlords secure buyers/tenants for properties faster and at a higher price.
According to the Matterport website:
- 95% of people are more likely to call about homes with 3D tours
- 99% of sellers say a 3D tour would give their listing a competitive edge
- Sell at a 4-9% higher sales price
As well as creating phenomenal and accurate 3D virtual tours of buildings and spaces, Matterport's software is full of excellent features that help you share your tours with the world.
- Easily share on social media, including Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
- Publish to Google Street View, VRBO, and Realtor.com
- Create detailed floor plans to offer your customers the bird's eye view
- Automatically generate guided tours to draw attention to the best features of a property.
- Create 4k print-quality photos [with the Pro2 Camera]
- Measure your space
Not a professional photographer? No worries. Matterport can be used with a range of smartphone cameras, through to professional grade cameras.
Matterport is a powerful marketing tool that shouldn't be overlooked if you're hoping to secure an abundance of interest, and a great price, for your property.
How much does Matterport cost?
Matterport lets you get started for free, then offers a variety of plans to suit your needs.
The app that supported all of through a global pandemic, Zoom allows you to offer a virtual property tour to potential tenants who may live out of town. And the beauty of Zoom is that most people either already have the app installed or have heard of it.
Zoom offers simplified video conferencing and messaging across any device, making it super simple to join and collaborate from any device.
Zoom Meetings syncs with your calendar system too, which ensures clients are likely to "show up" on time to your virtual meeting.
Additionally, features such as Waiting Rooms mean that you can control who is joining your Zoom room. This ensures you can offer a focused and uninterrupted experience for clients.
The chat function means people can ask questions throughout the tour too, without needing to display their camera or audio if they're camera shy.
Zoom tours are very personal and engaging, offering a more interactive way to show off your property online.
Here's a great video on how Zoom can support you through this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxT4J-35j5s
There are so many incredible apps and tools out there for property investors and landlords. We couldn't just pick 2 or 3! In my personal experience, an app that frees up your time, and allows your workflow to run far more smoothly is, in my opinion, well worth the extra few bucks a month! All of these products are affordable, and not only do they save you time, but they save you from undue stress!
You might also find these articles useful:
What are the benefits of property management for your rental?
New proposed tax changes for property investors; What you need to know to plan ahead
10 Best podcasts for property investors