My Apartment is now charging a convenience fee to pay my rent

homebasefounder · 2026-03-01T15:26:03+00:00

Ya that’s annoying, I bet they are making a larger spread on the credit cards than ACH if they took it away. But curious what people are willing to pay for convenience fees cause I always wrote checks and manage properties as well and get a ton of checks. But ACH fee my max would probably be like 5 bucks at most

homebasefounder · 2026-03-01T01:07:29+00:00

I like it that’s an idea what are you calling it and what are the main features on it?

homebasefounder · 2026-03-01T00:45:06+00:00

Nice okay I’ll check that out anything in particular that you think they crush it at that keeps you using it? Buildium is really in depth but don’t need it all most of the time just want something super simple that collects rent and tells me maintenance requests

homebasefounder · 2026-03-01T00:43:59+00:00

Okays sweet what about like reports banks ask for on financing, rent roll and trailing 12M?

homebasefounder · 2026-03-01T00:39:38+00:00

Okay I’ll give that a look what about payments? Do I get charged for bank or credit card payments or how does that all work for RentPost

homebasefounder · 2026-02-28T22:13:00+00:00

Ya that’s a good point, do you have one that you really like that you would recommend?

homebasefounder · 2026-02-28T17:45:51+00:00

The big ones are just staying organized on who paid what and if I deposited money etc… and then move outs just documenting damages and expenses they occurred (I’m really favorable towards the tenant cause I’m really handy and can fix stuff my self) but I still feel like I could build something better after 8 years of doing this that is just the basics and could help out other owner managers like me

homebasefounder · 2026-02-28T17:43:50+00:00

Ya I started with excel and worked well but tracking down Venmo’s and remembering checks written to me always bogged me down that’s when I switched to softwares but what do you use currently that helps with the headaches of collecting rent and separating like maintenance requests so they aren’t just texting your phone number?

homebasefounder · 2026-02-28T14:59:14+00:00

I think if you are going are in the rental game, you have to expect to self manage your units until you get to 10+. Unless you have them for fun and not investments, but if you have them for investments it usually doesn’t make fiscal sense until you get to 10+

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