MRI Residential Management vs. Visual Lease

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MRI Residential Management
Score 7.7 out of 10
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MRI Software offers residential management for the multifamily real estate marketing. Capabilities include leasing workflow, prospect management, resident management, billing, facility maintenance, and performance management. The company was founded in 1971 and offers several residential and commercial property and investment management solutions.N/A
Visual Lease
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Visual Lease is a Lease Management Software that provides robust lease accounting functionality with a depth of lease administration functionality to properly manage a company's lease portfolio.N/A
Pricing
MRI Residential ManagementVisual Lease
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MRI Residential ManagementVisual Lease
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
MRI Residential ManagementVisual Lease
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
(2 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(1 ratings)
6.6
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
MRI Residential ManagementVisual Lease
Likelihood to Recommend
MRI Software
Well suited scenario - MRI Residential is obviously good for residential real estate. It doesn't make sense to just plug in industrial, hotel or commercial real estate management as those are different types of products. Those who have access to the cloud can easily download information off site to do an analysis. Less appropriate - Information may need to be scrubbed. For instance, there could be operating statements that are inputted incorrectly because items are miscoded.
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Visual Lease
Visual Lease is well suited for companies that are trying to manage their leases in a more automated way other then spreadsheet. A company that needs visibility around their leases and wants to stay in compliance with the ever changing world of accounting. A company that wants a software that can integrate with their ERP and make routine monthly accounting entries.
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Pros
MRI Software
  • Reporting
  • Tracking Data
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Visual Lease
  • Generates abstract reports
  • Allows us to include lessor's leases
  • Fairly user friendly
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Cons
MRI Software
  • Sometimes the data that is outputted is not consistent (back end of the database is constantly being updated), have to follow up with our client relationship manager
  • Sometimes very rigid
  • Incremental cost to add on information (if we want MRI to host certain documents in the cloud)
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Visual Lease
  • So far, this has worked out extremely well for our governmental environment.
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Usability
MRI Software
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Visual Lease
Visual Lease has been really helpful to our company and we haven't had any issues
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Support Rating
MRI Software
They have a terrible help center and the training tools and videos are useless and not helpful. They need to invest in better training tools and modules for people to refer to. Especially when there is no designated training person within a company to teach newcomers how to use it.
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Visual Lease
Visual Lease support was not too impressive to me because when I reached out to ask about the XXX codes in the journal entries, they did not seem concerned. They just said they were default accounts, but I did not know what I was supposed to do with them since we did not have these accounts. Also, when I asked about API integration, I could not get a good response on how to get Visual Lease to be connected with Intacct.
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Alternatives Considered
MRI Software
We had a proprietary access database, but wanted to utilize MRI because of support (annual fee is in the tens of thousands versus a hundred thousand plus build out). The user interface is pretty straight forward, and there is available training as well. Updates are done online via the SAAS website so we don't have to worry about any coding issues here in house.
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Visual Lease
We also evaluated Lease Accelerator and Lease Query. We didn't go with Lease Accelerator because it didn't have lessor leases. We did not go with Lease Query because they did not have abstract reports.
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Return on Investment
MRI Software
  • Helps track income
  • Helps with on-time billing
  • Keeps us on budget with projects
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Visual Lease
  • This has been extremely important in compiling all of the many leases that we have going on throughout different years and timelines.
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