Managing property
For the people running the buildings: billing a whole portfolio, catching arrears while they are still small, and keeping records a landlord or an auditor can follow without your help.
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 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.
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.
Why Itemised Rent Receipts Prevent Disputes
A receipt that only says 'rent paid' invites an argument later. One that shows exactly what each shilling settled doesn't.
Tenant Handovers, Done Properly
Move-in and move-out are the same twenty minutes of work, done twice. Skipping it at the start is what makes the end expensive.
Running a Billing Run Without Ruining Your Month
Billing a whole portfolio in one go is fast and unforgiving. The difference between a quiet month and a week of corrections is what happens in the ten minutes before you send.