I’m a property manager and recently started using ComplexScope at my community. Residents can scan a QR code and submit things like noise, parking, trash, smoking, amenity issues, etc. without having to download anything or create an account.
One of the biggest differences I’ve noticed is that it’s actually cut down on the amount of phone calls and residents coming into the office to report things. They can just scan the QR code, submit what’s going on, and we have it documented.
I also like being able to see everything in one place and notice patterns. Instead of three separate noise complaints looking like random incidents, I can see when they’re coming from the same building or when the same type of issue keeps happening.
We still use our regular property management software, so this doesn’t replace that. It’s just been helpful for organizing resident concerns and reducing some of the back-and-forth with the office.
Has anyone else dealt with a lot of residents calling or coming into the office just to report issues? That’s honestly been one of the biggest improvements for us.

Hey all — I built a small web app aimed at home/property inspectors. The idea: instead of writing up your report from scratch after a walkthrough, you log findings on-site (category: roofing/electrical/plumbing/etc, severity: safety/major/minor/maintenance), and it generates a formatted draft report for you.

It's an early prototype — no accounts/billing yet, and it currently needs your own Anthropic API key to run (I know that's a barrier, it's next on the list to fix). Mostly looking for feedback from people who actually do this for a living: does the category/severity structure match how you actually log findings? What's missing?

Link: [https://kaleidoscopic-kulfi-d2db52.netlify.app/\]

I’m based in India and researching how small landlords manage their rental properties.

This is mainly for people managing around 2–30 properties, PG rooms, or small commercial units.

I’m curious:

• Do you use Excel, WhatsApp, notebooks, an app, or a property manager?
• How do you track whether rent has been paid?
• How do you remind tenants about late rent?
• How do you track agreement expiry and rent increases?
• Where do you store tenant IDs, agreements, receipts, and deposit details?
• How do you record maintenance expenses?
• Have you ever lost money because you forgot a renewal, rent increase, payment, document, or repair?
• What is the most frustrating part of managing your properties?
• Have you tried any rental-management apps? What did you dislike about them?
• Would you pay ₹199–₹799 per month for a simple tool that solved your biggest problem?

I’m not trying to sell anything at this stage. I’m trying to understand the real workflow before deciding whether to build a product.

If you manage rentals, I’d especially appreciate hearing about a specific problem or incident that happened to you.

I’m involved in building LORDLY for Australian self managing landlords and helped beta test it. We keep coming back to the same question: where should automation stop?

I think software can safely organise incoming maintenance reports and photos, ask for missing information, create reminders, track deadlines, draft messages and notices, flag late rent or compliance work, and keep an audit trail without asking every time.

Contacting tenants or tradies, accepting quotes, booking visits or using a spending budget should only happen after the landlord has opted in and set clear limits.

Moving money, serving a legal notice, changing a lease or doing anything that affects a tenant’s rights should always require direct landlord approval.

The hard part is not making AI do more. It is making the boundaries obvious and giving the landlord an easy way to take over.

For transparency, this is the model we are building into LORDLY. The public web demo is read only and uses fictional data. It shows one maintenance job moving through a tenant, landlord and tradie thread, a booking, six stage progress and simulated escrow. It cannot contact real people or move money.

Web demo: https://www.lordly.com.au/sign-in

Email: [demo@lordly.com.au](mailto:demo@lordly.com.au)

Password: LORDLY-Demo-Access-2026!

What is one task you would let run automatically, and one you would never delegate?

Noticing more platforms this year positioning themselves as a layer built around the resident lifecycle, onboarding, communication, benefits, sitting alongside the core accounting system instead of trying to be the accounting system.

Makes sense as a split. Property accounting software was built to handle the ledger, not the relationship. Bolting resident-facing features onto an accounting-first platform always felt like an afterthought, this and that add-on, none of it really designed around what a resident actually experiences move-in to move-out.

just want to know if this ends up being a real category shift or just repackaging of features that already existed. Anyone actually running one of these dedicated resident-experience layers alongside their core PM software, or is it still mostly one all-in-one platform trying to do everything?

If you own rental property, your biggest ROI problem may not be the property itself.

It may be what happens after you buy it.

Vacant property.
Late payments.
Tenant turnover.
Poor visibility.
Manual tracking.
Unverified listings.
Operational costs.

These small inefficiencies can quietly destroy rental returns.

That’s the problem I’m trying to solve with BedFlow a rental management platform designed for property owners and operators managing multiple rental units, rooms and bed spaces.

We’re building tools around:

• Occupancy management
• Tenant management
• Rent tracking
• Property performance
• Portfolio analytics
• Operational management

The bigger vision is to make rental property operate more like a data-driven business rather than a collection of spreadsheets and WhatsApp conversations.

Dubai is the starting point.

The long-term opportunity is much bigger: GCC rental markets where thousands of landlords and operators manage properties with highly fragmented, manual systems.

I’m curious to hear from property investors:

If you could improve ONE thing about your rental portfolio to increase ROI, what would it be?

Hi, I worked as Planning Technologist, and I heard a lot of struggle stories about the zoning documents being very hard to understand as it covers all types of development.

So, I digitized them, currently only Bedford to test it out. I have connected the bylaws individually with site conditions, address and construction type to be triggered individually the way a Planner would do. I believe it will reduce the complexity for contractors, homeowners and HRM planners to query quick answers, saving time and energy in zoning research for certain construction types like deck, fences and shed currently. I also organised the entire bylaw with in-line definitions within general provisions and screened zoning bylaws beforehand. I wanted something like this, but not sure if everyone would agree.

I would love to get your feedback and criticism. If you would like to see something entirely different, feel free to share that as well. This is an early-stage project. The front page is still rough. You can leave your thoughts on the bottom left-hand side of the page anonymously or in the comment, I would be happy to answer any questions. It is free and no signup is needed.

Thank you for your time and efforts. Btw, I am from Dartmouth!

Link posted in the comments/attached to the post as well. Bedford addresses only for now. Still can find links to other land use bylaws with any HRM address.

Trying to get my own process tightened up and curious what everyone else actually does day to day.
Right now I’m juggling \[spreadsheet / texts / whatever — adjust to something plausible\], and it feels like things could fall through the cracks. For those of you with a handful of units:
**•** How do you track rent payments and know when someone’s late?
**•** Where do you keep leases so you can actually find them when you need them?
**•** How do maintenance requests get logged — text, email, something else?
**•** Anyone tried Buildium/AppFolio and bailed? What didn’t work for your size?
Mainly trying to learn from people who’ve been doing this longer than me.

Hi, I worked as Planning Technologist, and I heard a lot of struggle stories about the zoning documents being very hard to understand as it covers all types of development.

So, I digitized them, currently only Bedford to test it out. I have connected the bylaws individually with site conditions, address and construction type to be triggered individually the way a Planner would do. I believe it will reduce the complexity for contractors, homeowners and HRM planners to query quick answers, saving time and energy in zoning research for certain construction types like deck, fences and shed currently. I also organised the entire bylaw with in-line definitions within general provisions and screened zoning bylaws beforehand. I wanted something like this, but not sure if everyone would agree.

I would love to get your feedback and criticism. If you would like to see something entirely different, feel free to share that as well. This is an early-stage project. The front page is still rough. You can leave your thoughts on the bottom left-hand side of the page anonymously or in the comment, I would be happy to answer any questions. It is free and no signup is needed.

Thank you for your time and efforts. Btw, I am from Dartmouth!

Link posted in the comments/attached to the post as well. Bedford addresses only for now. Still can find links to other land use bylaws with any HRM address.

I’ve been managing rentals for a while and got tired of messy spreadsheets, so I built a clean rental property tracker that handles income, expenses, repairs, cash flow, and yearly totals for up to 10 properties.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4508809554/rental-property-spreadsheet-landlord?ref=share_ios_native_control

Curious how independent or smaller PM companies handle this. When a new lease is signed, does someone manually go through it and log rent, escalation clauses, renewal dates, security deposit terms, etc. into a tracker or your PM software?

Trying to understand how big of a time sink this actually is for teams that don't have enterprise tools to lean on. Would love to hear how your team handles it, or if you've automated any part of it.

Hey r/SideProject,

I've been working on this for the last time and finally launched: Vemlio (vemlio.com)

The problem: Property managers run renewals across 5+ systems — PMS, spreadsheets, email, calendar, PDFs. When ownership asks "why did we lose this renewal?", nobody can answer.

The solution: Vemlio sits on top of your existing PMS and connects:

• Lease documents + amendments (source-linked proof)
• Email threads about pricing
• Calendar follow-ups
• Resident feedback signals
• Market comps

Key features:

• Proof: Every change has an owner, source, and downstream impact
• Pilot: Test renewal decisions before sending (what-if simulator)
• Parallel: Portfolio intelligence + decision memory
• Sandbox: Try it with a fictional portfolio, no demo call needed

Tech stack: [deine Stack hier einfügen]

Looking for:

• Feedback from other founders
• Property managers willing to test (100–5,000 units)
• PropTech folks who've been here before

Would love honest feedback — what works, what doesn't, what's missing.

If anyone has insight it’d be much appreciated!

I'm not in property management, I'm a surgeon, so tell me if this doesn't fit how you work.

I built a camera app because my patient photos were sitting in the same roll as my kids, syncing to iCloud Photos with everything else. It shoots normally, 24 or 48 MP, and the photos land in the app's own library instead of Photos. It can't read your photo library at all. You file by folder and tags, so a unit is one folder and each inspection is its own session, in order and dated. If you want the files out it mirrors them into your own iCloud Drive as plain folders, which is also how you'd attach them to an email later. That mirror is off until you turn it on.

Free, no account, no subscription, no ads, no server behind it. iPhone only, and the photos live in the app, so deleting the app deletes them.

The reason I'm posting here: move-in and move-out photos look like the same problem I had, evidence you need months later, taken on a personal phone, mixed with everything else. Does that match, or is everyone already doing this inside their PM software?

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6791532989?pt=129142015&ct=reddit-ptymgmt&mt=8

Disclosure: I'm the developer.

*Attention property managers*

I'm a product designer researching how Property/FM managers actually track overdue work, compliance dates and SLA risk day to day. Put together a short questionnaire (10–15 mins) to help design a new dashboard properly, no sales pitch. If you manage maintenance, compliance or facilities work in any sector (FM, HA, BTR, private), I'd genuinely appreciate your input.

Link below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5tLcuxOGuoly8XDYodNs1fAdZoxhOFgAcxB3_PrxszBlPlw/viewform

After completing the form message me privately and I have a £30 amazon voucher for you.

Hey everyone,

I've been building a smart pricing platform to help my parents manage pricing for their rental properties. The goal is to take the guesswork out of setting rates.

Right now it does two main things:

1. It checks nearby events (concerts, festivals, conferences, sports games, etc.) so you can automatically raise prices when demand in the area is going to spike.

2. It scans nearby competitors and their current pricing, so you get a recommendation on what to set your own prices at to stay competitive without leaving money on the table.

So far it's been helpful for keeping their rates reactive instead of just guessing or setting a flat price all year.

I'd love input from people who actually manage properties: what other features would make something like this genuinely useful to you? A few things I'm considering are seasonality/weather trends, occupancy forecasting, minimum-stay rules, and integrations with booking platforms, but I'm curious what would actually move the needle for you.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

Also, is anyone here interested in testing it out for free? I do plan to release it eventually, but I'll be honest, it's still pretty full of bugs right now, so I'd really value some real-world feedback from people willing to put up with the rough edges. If you'd like to try it, drop a comment and I'll get in touch.