Housters

Housters is a rental property management software designed to assist small to medium-sized landlords, property managers, tenants, and contractors in streamlining their day-to-day operations. According to the vendor, this software offers a range of features to help landlords and property managers efficiently manage their rental properties, while providing tenants with a platform for rent payments and communication. Housters caters to various professionals in the real estate industry, including landlords, property managers, real estate professionals, rental property owners, and contractors.

Key Features

Tenant Tracking: According to the vendor, Housters allows users to easily keep track of rent and deposits due from tenants, send invoices for payments, and receive online payments. The software also offers the functionality to automatically charge late fees to tenants.

Applicant Screening: Housters enables users to create custom application forms, accept online submissions, run background checks on applicants, and seamlessly convert approved applicants into tenants, as per the vendor.

Online Payments: According to the vendor, users can configure their preferred bank account to receive online payments from tenants. Tenants have the option to make one-time or recurring online payments on a schedule, and payment statuses can be conveniently monitored on the main and tenant dashboards.

Accounting: Housters provides the ability to log rental-related income and expenses, set up recurring transactions, automatically import transactions from bank and credit card accounts, and reconcile statements, according to the vendor.

Task Management: Users can stay organized with rental-related to-do lists, categorize tasks by property or tenant, and accept maintenance requests from tenants, which are automatically added to the task lists, according to the vendor. The software also allows for task sharing with contractors for efficient collaboration.

Reporting: According to the vendor, Housters offers the ability to view important financial figures such as net operating income and cash on cash invested on the main and property dashboards. Users can generate accounting and tax reports for specific properties and date ranges, with the option to customize the branding on the reports.

Shared To-Do Lists (for Contractors): Contractors can be invited to Housters, enabling them to view and update to-do list tasks assigned by their landlord and property manager clients. Progress updates are automatically reflected in the clients' own to-do lists, as per the vendor.

Invoicing (for Contractors): According to the vendor, contractors can generate professional invoices for completed work directly on the contractor portal. Invoices can be exported to PDF and easily sent to landlord and property manager clients.

Online Payments (for Contractors): Contractors can configure their preferred bank account to receive online payments from their clients. According to the vendor, landlords and property managers can conveniently send online payments for completed work, and payment statuses can be tracked on the contractor portal's main dashboard.