AppFolio-Friendly to all size companies
December 05, 2017
AppFolio-Friendly to all size companies
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AppFolio Property Manager
We use Appfolio as our Property Management program to do all our leasing, accounting, and maintenance daily work. Appfolio is very user friendly and has helped us streamline our leasing and several of our accounting processes. It has increased our online availability which has helped us reach our customers all over the world. We have a lot of international students that comes to our local university and the online leasing process and tenant portal has greatly minimized the time it takes to get a lease signed and receive payment from the customer.
- Their search features are awesome and it helps us find Tenants, Owners and Vendors by first name, last name, or phone number. It's great!
- Reporting and accounting are very simple and have streamlined several of our processes that used to take hours to do usually can be done in one hour or less. Emailing reports to Owners has now been reduced from 2 days to 1 to 2 hours-that has been a great time saver.
- Being mobile friendly has allow our employees and our tenants access to what they need 24/7 and almost everyone uses some kind of mobile device which has helped increase visibility for our units and helps keep our vacancy rate low.
- Their support team is always there to help and has been a great asset to have to rely on their help.
- There is some reporting that we would like to see for our Owners and Tenants. Their vacancy report is one we wish we could pull in the tenants phone number to be able to have it on our report when we print.
- Maintenance also has reporting that we would like to be able to produce from the keys checked out and keys returned so we can stay on top of checking out our units better. We would also like to do reports from the inspections. Being able to print the units coming vacant at the end of any given month and printing it so we know which unit needs to have painting, cleaning and carpet cleaning done would be very helpful. Right now we export the units and copy and paste into a spreadsheet template to have what we need for our maintenance board.
- The process to remove misapplied rent or how to refund money to a tenant is a several step process we would like to see simplified.
- We have been able to utilize our current employees with our growth without adding more overhead cost by having to hire more employees.
- The cost of the program has not really allowed us to see much of a profit on the bottom line of not having to hire more employees because as we grow our units so does the cost of the program grow.
- We have 2 offices several miles away from each other and Appfolio has allowed us to stay in real time in both offices because of the program being web based.
This was our old program and it was not user friendly and very inefficient to use. We was never able to answer a question for an owner or a tenant very easily and many times we had to ask for them to let us call them back while we research their question because it was so difficult to maneuver in the program.