Whether you are an accidental landlord, let properties to earn supplemental income or a full-blown professional landlord. There are many applications on the market that make the whole process easier. Below we have selected our top 5 apps for landlords that will help enhance your letting experience:

Apps for Landlords Nº1. Landlord Studio – Property Management App

A great all in one app intended to help landlords manage their properties with ease. Manage your properties on any device or desktop. Logging rent payments and expenses, invoicing tenants, or producing reports for your accountant,

The app has some nifty features like a dashboard loaded with helpful statistics, income-expense breakdowns and an overview of tenanted properties

Store all your and your tenant’s documents in one place. Set reminders for maintenance visit dates. Avail yourself of one-click calls, emails and SMS to tenants.

The app comes with a free 30-day trial and in most states and countries property management software can be claimed as an expense

Apps for Landlords Nº2. Proper – FREE Landlord, Property Agent, Tenant App

Proper is the ultimate tool to manage rental properties for tenants, landlords & property managers.

Proper enables you to simply manage property listings, organise property viewings, filter tenant applications and sign tenancy agreements and deposits.

Property maintenance – Tenants are able to log maintenance issues with the property. Landlords are able to view issues, repair the issues themselves, share them with their preferred suppliers to request quotes from the system.
Property rent collection and rent book – There is an additional add-service where Proper takes care of your rent collection
Tenant chat – Finally all communication in a single place between tenants & landlords. Chat with push notifications, all connected to the property and tenancy agreement. No more hunting and forgetting tenant and landlord contact numbers.

Best of all, Proper is a Free Property Management App.

Apps for Landlords Nº3. Fixflo – Contractor App

Fixflo is an online-tenant repair reporting system.

Fixflo enables tenants to report their maintenance issues online; filtering out issues that are an occupier’s responsibility and providing tools and advice for self-resolution. Property managers receive fewer issues and those issues that are received are more accurately described. Occupiers get quicker repairs. Contractors have fewer wasted trips. Owners get better asset protection. Fixflo can be integrated into existing property management systems through the use of API’s

Basically, if you want to make sure your tenants and your property are well taken care of by addressing maintenance issues quickly and promptly, you have to get FixFlo. It even integrates with common property management software through the use of API’s, ask your letting agent!

Apps for Landlords Nº4. QuickBooks Accounting: Invoicing & Expenses

Quickbooks is a great tool to keep your small business bookkeeping organized. Easily create an invoice and keep track of it with our invoice management tools. finally, you will always be able to see where your business stands with dozens of financial reports available.

Dashboard – View your profit and loss to see what you are making and spending. You can view your account balances with a comprehensive dashboard
Invoice generator – Allows you to track invoices sent (in multiple currencies) so you always know who owes you and who has paid you with the option to get paid by credit card or bank transfer
Manage Expenses, Track Sales and Customers On the Go – Get maximum tax savings by photographing your receipts and attaching them to your expenses.
Take a closer look at your profit and loss – By connecting your bank accounts, you can see where you are making and spending money.
Review – your bank transactions and add them to your accounting records.

Apps for Landlords Nº5. Investment Property Calculator – Real Estate

If you are looking for a real estate calculator to analyze buy and hold rental properties then look no further.

This app was designed and created with quick analyzing tools that landlords, investors and real estate agents can be able to figure out the bad deals from the good ones.

This app also lets you compare income properties and share them (in CSV or PDF format) with friends or clients all for free.

Calculate and analyze cash flow, ROI and other ratios in rental properties with ease and simplicity

The FREE inventory template

Strictly speaking, this is no application. However it can save you a huge amount of time if you’re creating your own inventories (or thinking about starting to create your own)

We’ve recently released our inventory template for FREE. To get your template head over to this page here:
http://hinchpm.com/free-property-inventory-template/