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Property Manager

Your Complete Property Management Solution


Easy to use. Efficient. Productive. Reliable. Amazing.

These are some of the words our customers have used to describe BusinessEdge® Property Manager. It is software designed to help professional property managers and real estate owners lighten the load of a difficult job and provide the information needed to make sound management decisions.With Property Manager, you will be able to automate routine accounting transactions, print checks, receipts, invoices, 1099s and purchase orders,generate financial reports, track vacancies and rental losses, compile owner summary reports, send tenant statements, schedule activities and lease renewals, and prepare merged mailers for your owners, tenants and vendors with the built-in word processor. All at a price you can afford,tailored to the number of rental units you need to manage.

Don't Just Keep Books. Manage.

Property Manager is designed to be a management tool, not just an accounting system. Yet the accounting features are very strong. By simply doing normal bookkeeping, it is easy to do such things as track past due rents, document payment histories, track losses due to vacancies, print income statements,balance sheets and other financial statements, and do year end 1099's.Property Manager's advanced data management features allow you to group your data and reports according to how you want to see them, such as aconsolidated cash flow statement of five properties owned by a single owner,individual balance sheets on three separately owned properties, over-due rents on all properties of a particular owner, or tenants statements on tenants with credit balances. But Property Manager is more than an accounting application. It also has a built-in calendar and word processor. The calendar allows you to create "calendar entries" such as maintenance work,lease expirations, tenant move-ins, rent increases, appointments, telephone calls, or anything else you may need to get done at a future date.

The word processor has a big advantage over the one you use right now.It can directly access the information in Property Manager. This means that you can easily send out communications such as rent increase and maintenance notices to tenants, year end congratulations to owners, or work orders to maintenance personnel

Property Manager helps you keep track of your communications as well.After each letter, a calendar entry can be created (if you like) to note when the item was sent.

Be Productive the First Day

Property Manager is so easy to use, you can begin managing your properties effectively from Day One. Enter in your properties and units, assign your tenants, then start writing checks, receiving rents, scheduling move-indates or even creating purchase orders. Checks are filled out directly on screen, as are receipts, charges, purchase orders & invoices, andthey look just like they would on paper.

One user commented:

"With the bookkeeping turnover I've had the last two years, I'dbe lost without Property Manager. My new employees can get to work right away, without me having to spend days training them."

Vendors can be created on-the-fly, so you simply pay bills as they come.Property Manager supports many Mac compatible printers, so printing checks is a snap. Controls are available for printing checks (or any document,for that matter) as a batch, or immediately after writing. You can even print a label or envelope for your transaction.

Analyzing your results is just as easy. All of the reports are alreadyset up for you. Financial reports can be run at any time, and any two time periods can be compared on the same report, and any report can be run based on any property, grouping of properties or the entire portfolio of properties either with the totals consolidated on a single report or separated by property.

Automate to Reduce Errors and Wasted Time

Property Manager has many features that will help you automate your management tasks, so that you can avoid mistakes and spend less time withthe more tedious aspects of business. Many of your regular transactions can be set up to happen in a batch, such as applying rent and late payment charges every month to your tenants.

It is even smart enough to know which units are vacant. Scheduled checks to mortgage lenders, utility companies, on-site managers and others can be set up to happen on command whether they occur daily, monthly, yearly or anywhere in between. Yet you retain full control, because nothing happens without your direct command. If you manage properties that have charges split among units (such as utilities), each unit will automatically take its percentage of the whole charge when it is paid. And if you have multiple tenants within a particular unit, each tenant can be charged the correct percentage automatically and without direct effort.

Manage Your Activities Too

Property Manager has excellent activity scheduling features as well.You can make reminders that pop up immediately when you launch PropertyManager on the day they are due. You can schedule appointments to show a unit to tenants, sign their lease, move them in, set a reminder for yourself for when their lease will expire, or move them out. Or, you can schedule maintenance work, special bills to be paid, mailings to go out, and telephone calls to be made.

Each activity can be attached to any of the database entries, such astenants, units, owners, etc. By attaching activities to a tenant, for example,all activities related to that tenant can be looked up simply by clicking on the "Activities" icon on that tenant's information card.

Get the Information You Need

The biggest payoff of using Property Manager is access to the information that you need quickly. Bank account balances are available with a mouse click, and tenant status' are shown on each tenant's information card.Detailed, item by item inquiries are easily available for bookkeeping accounts,tenants and vendors.

Icons on each window allow you to jump quickly from one piece of informationto a related piece of information. Plus, each list, such as the Tenant List, has a number of sophisticated "Find" features that willallow you to find any piece of information in your data that you may need.

The Financial and Management reports provide you with a complete viewof your management activities and results. Each report can be printed foran individual property, or as consolidated totals for a grouping of properties,such as all properties for a particular owner. The following reports areavailable:
Income Statement Cash Flow Statement Balance Sheet Trial Balance Tax Planning Statement Chart of Accounts Account Detail Transaction Register Transaction Item Report Checkbook Register Recurring Disbursements General Ledger Recurring Charges Accounts Receivable Account Payable Tenant Statement Calendar Entry Report Owner Directory Owner Detail Ownership Directory Property Directory Property Detail Unit Directory Unit Detail Tenant Directory Tenant Detail Vendor Directory Vendor Detail Rent Roll Vacancy Summary Vacancy Detail Lease Expiration Rent Change

What's Great About Property Manager (in no particular order)

- Relevant reports available from any window - Automatic address label printing - "Find" features help you locate data - Merging Word Processor - Two CAM rates per unit - Allows multiple tenants per unit - Print Receipts - Print Checks - Automatic Vendor 1099s - Automatic Owner 1099s - Cash or Accrual Accounting - Automatically send Owner checks to Bank - Prints labels, envelopes, post cards, and addresses on folded letters - Print Invoices - Tenant Statement shows deposit balance - Daily reminders show on startup - Jump to related data by icon - Completely customizable chart of accounts - Recurring Charges & Checks - Automatically post late fees - Link activities to data - Multiple owners per property - Create custom reports - Alternate Unit mailing addresses - Unit Card list all scheduled charges - All data can be duplicated, deleted, changed in groups - Track lease expirations - Keep an eye on losses due to vacancies - Password protection (optional) - Reverse Transactions with one click - Modify transactions after saving - Delete erroneous transactions - AFFORDABLE

Priced to Fit Your Needs

Property Manager is priced to fit the budget of virtually any property management task. Whether your needs are to manage many properties of hundreds of units each or your first single family rental property, Business Edge has a pricing option available for you. And our most inexpensive version has no fewer features than our Pro version, with no unit limits placedupon it. Please see the order form on the last page of this document for current pricing.

Take a Look

We urge you to take a look at Property Manager from Business Edge. As a gesture of confidence in our product, we have no demo of our software.When you get the Property Manager evaluation kit, you've got the real thing.Only a validation number from Business Edge is required for you to keep using Property Manager after the 60 day evaluation period. You won't have to load any more software or convert your "test" data from the evaluation to the real thing; just enter the number and keep going. Andwhatever you decide, please give your final choice in software a thorough test before purchase. We think that it is important for a property managerto give a prospective tool a complete workout prior to purchase, so that your time is not wasted learning a product that will only prove inadequate.We are sure that you will give Property Manager high marks.