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Short, practical pieces for everyone this sector touches: tenants, house-hunters, agencies, landlords and builders. No sales pitch, and nothing you need our software to act on.
How to Bill Tenants for Metered Water Fairly
Four numbers make a water charge checkable: previous reading, current reading, the difference, and the rate. Everything that goes wrong with water billing comes from leaving one of them out.
How to Budget for Building Your Own House
A build does not go over budget in one decision. It goes over in forty small ones nobody added up. What to put in the budget, what people leave out, and the one number to keep current.
How to Reconcile M-Pesa Rent Payments Without Guessing
An M-Pesa statement tells you money arrived. It does not tell you what it settled. Here is the reference scheme and the allocation rule that turn a list of receipts into a rent ledger.
What Records a Landlord Should Keep, and Why
The documents that decide a dispute are never the ones you thought to keep at the time. A practical list of what to hold, in what form, and for roughly how long.
What to Keep, and for How Long
Keeping everything forever feels safe and isn't. A retention position, meaning what you keep, why, and when it goes, is both a data protection duty and a filing system that works.
Choosing Property Management Software: What to Actually Test
A demo shows you a system working on somebody else's tidy data. Here is how to test one against yours, and the questions that reveal more than any feature list.