Between handling maintenance requests, juggling communications with tenants, and collecting rent payments regularly, managing rental properties is anything but easy. Even if you’re a landlord with a small portfolio, we’re willing to bet you’ve been overwhelmed a time or two.
The truth is, it isn’t an easy job. Landlords must contend with rising tenant expectations, rapid shifts in the rental market, and continually evolving legal requirements for rental properties. The bottom line is that modern management needs require modern management tools.
Luckily, a dedicated property management system (aka a PMS) can help you seamlessly take your business online to enhance efficiency. Our goal is to help you go from overwhelmed to “I got this,” with just a few clicks.
To learn more about what our property management system has to offer, continue reading for an overview of PMS as a whole and a detailed look at TurboTenant’s specific features.
Property management systems, also called PMSs, refer to online platforms that landlords use to simplify rental property operations. With them, you can make rent collection, expense tracking, and rental property accounting less time-consuming and more organized.
In the long run, utilizing a property management system saves you valuable time and labor, enabling you to build systems that provide a framework for growth. Even for those with minimal property management needs, landlords of all sizes find value in having a system that can automate many of the tasks for them.
Landlords interested in these benefits will find a wide variety of cloud-based options that make property management doable from anywhere they can connect to the internet.
To that end, TurboTenant serves as a handy, online PMS for real estate management. Our secure, cloud-based software provides landlords with peace of mind while offering a robust suite of features essential to effective rental property management. Plus, the features TurboTenant provides make it easier for tenants to pay rent or submit maintenance requests.
When your tenants are happy, you’ll be happy too.
Rather than jotting down a number of features, we think it’s important to highlight what you’ll gain by using them. So, here are the top benefits you’ll gain when using a property management system.
The primary benefit of using a property management system is time savings. With it, you can stop meeting tenants in person to collect rent, sign leases from anywhere, market your property on dozens of listing sites with a single click, and finally put your spreadsheets to bed.
Say goodbye to time-consuming tasks that eat up all your free time.
Accepting online rent payments and maintenance requests from tenants is not only convenient, but it also goes a long way toward strengthening the landlord-tenant relationship. It’s 2025; you want to give your tenants the option to pay rent the same way they pay for groceries.
Regardless of the number of rental dwelling units you have, using a well-built, dedicated property management system eliminates the need for additional staff, like an expensive property manager.
As your rental portfolio grows, your PMS is designed to handle the extra work. This allows you to automate routine rental management processes and standardize operations across properties, ensuring a consistent level of quality in rental management.
TurboTenant’s PMS will significantly enhance the record-keeping process, eliminating the need to juggle other DIY documentation tools, such as spreadsheets. The PMS enables you to document everything from leases to rent payments and tenant messages online, ensuring you’re prepared for worst-case scenarios, such as tenant disputes or audits.
One of the biggest advantages of using a PMS is the ability to track income and expenses throughout the year. Of course, this will help you handle the accounting side of property management, but it’s especially beneficial come tax season.
Our PMS can generate tax-ready financial reports, saving you untold hours of struggling to create these documents on your own. This way, you can avoid unpleasant surprises at the end of the fiscal year.
Now that you’ve got a feel for the benefits, let’s examine the features.
With TurboTenant’s PMS, you can securely receive online rent payments without the need for paper checks or potentially unsafe third-party apps like Zelle and Venmo. Tenants can make payments through TurboTenant via ACH, credit, debit, or set up auto-pay.
Plus, automatic rent payment reminders ensure you’re not the bad guy when a tenant fails to pay rent on time. TurboTenant’s dashboard also allows you to instantly view payment history to verify who has and has not yet paid rent.
When it comes to the tenant selection process, TurboTenant helps you make the best, most informed decisions possible. You can use our system to generate comprehensive tenant screenings, including reports on an applicant’s credit, criminal, and eviction history, where allowed by law.
You can also customize applications to suit their individual properties’ needs and easily track rental applications in TurboTenant’s central dashboard.
TurboTenant’s free PMS allows you to both generate and e-sign lease agreements online. These agreements can then be stored securely in the cloud, which both you and your tenants can access from anywhere with an internet connection.
Plus, we check with local laws regularly to ensure your lease protects you even as the legal landscape shifts.
No matter how well you take care of your property, rental maintenance will always become a necessity at some point. Tenants can use TurboTenant’s PMS to submit maintenance requests online, where you can receive, review, and respond to work orders.
Additionally, you can organize maintenance requests by property and keep track of the status of each outstanding issue, making it easy to prioritize issues as they arise.
Rental property accounting is a crucial component of property management. TurboTenant’s rental property accounting software helps you automatically record income and easily account for expenses, making tax time easier than ever.
With TurboTenant, it’s never been easier to fill a vacant rental unit. Our online rental advertising feature enables you to instantly post listings across multiple top real estate and rental sites, including Redfin and Apartments.com. Once tenants show interest, you can track leads and inquiries, then pre-screen prospective tenants to determine whether they’ll be the best fit for a dwelling unit before initiating the application process.
We know that today, there are various property management systems for you to choose from. However, TurboTenant stands out among the ranks as one of the best PMSs on the market, thanks to a few key factors.
First, TurboTenant is designed specifically for independent landlords — the DIY types who prefer to handle property management themselves rather than spend their hard-earned rental income on a property manager or other middleman. While many PMSs are designed for landlords who have a full support network, TurboTenant provides landlords with the freedom to handle key aspects of rental property management on their own terms.
Speaking of freedom, TurboTenant’s core tools are free for landlords to use. This includes rental advertising, applications, tenant screening, rent collection, and other related services. Since TurboTenant’s PMS is free, there are no hidden fees or unexpected subscriptions (though you can upgrade to one of our paid memberships if you need more features).
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, TurboTenant is scalable and is ready to grow when you are.
If you’re a landlord who’s ready to save time, improve your tenants’ satisfaction with your property management, and find some much-needed financial clarity about your rental properties, sign up for a free TurboTenant account today.
As one of the best property management systems available, especially for independent landlords, TurboTenant streamlines and elevates all aspects of the rental management process, removing headaches and other potential barriers to entry.
Get started with TurboTenant today to take advantage of all our benefits for landlords.
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