Take a quick look around your desk. Is it covered in papers and handwritten sticky note reminders? Maybe your printer is running out of ink from all the owner statements you have to print. These are just a few hints that it may be time to modernize your property management business. Is your business in need of some modern updating? Check out this quick and fun slideshow to find out!

1. 10 CLUES
YOU REALLY NEED TO MODERNIZE
YOUR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT BUSINESS

2. YOU DREAD RENT WEEK.
Collecting money is
almost too difficult! 1

3. YOUR LEASING AGENTS
HAVE TO “GET BACK
TO THE APPLICANT”
because they can't screen and
approve on the spot.
2
UMMM…CAN I
CALL YOU BACK?

4. A PAPER FOLDER ON SOMEONE'S DESK
is filled with handwritten maintenance requests from
residents. In one big stack.3
HElP!!!!!
MY SINK ISOVeRfLoWINg!!!

5. YOUR TEAM
HAS PAPER CUTS
that never heal from endlessly
printing, stamping, and mailing
owner statements each month.
4
FIRST AID

6. YOU HAVE TO DRIVE
BACK TO THE OFFICE
to log onto your computer
whenever you forget to do
some work. Once you even
got a ticket for driving back
too fast.
5

7. FORGET ABOUT GOING MOBILE-FRIENDLY;
Millennial renters don’t even have a chance of finding
your listings online.6

8. YOUR WEBSITE
LOOKS A BIT OLD.
And your competitor’s
websites are better,
which makes you sad.
7
CLICK
HERE
OR
HERE
OR
HERE
NOT
HERE
FAX: 555-5031

9. TRACKING MARKETING
EFFORTS AMOUNTS TO POST-ITS
with statements like “I think maybe this person came from....". 8
ToM IS LoOKINg FoR
A TWO BeDRoOm
UMm... I THINK HIS NUMbEr
BeGAN WITH A 7... MAYBe
I THINK THIS
PeRsOn CAMe
FrOm...
JEn
N
Y
867-530
9
JOHN
CALlED
ABoUT AN
OpEnINg
Or
MAYBe IT WAS JIM

10. YOU SPEND
LESS THAN
2 MINUTES A DAY
focused on activities
to grow your business.
9
To-DO LISt

11. TENANT SIGNATURE
LEASE AGREEMENT
DATE
YOUR RESIDENTS STILL SIGN
THEIR LEASE AGREEMENTS
WITH PAPER AND PEN!
10

12. APPFOLIO CAN HELP YOU JOIN THE 21ST CENTURY AND
MODERNIZE YOUR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT BUSINESS.
VISIT WWW.APPFOLIO.COM TO FIND OUT
MORE AND SIGN UP FOR A DEMO.