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Meet Your Fastest, Most Custom Property Management Report Yet

Meet Your Fastest, Most Custom Property Management Report Yet

As property managers, one of the most important touch points that you have with your clients is the package of reports you deliver on a monthly basis. A good property management report package should be easy to understand and hold up to close scrutiny.  Opening balances need to...

Find Tenant’s Deposit: The Feature You Need When You Need It Most

Find Tenant’s Deposit: The Feature You Need When You Need It Most

One simple, but very useful feature built right into the core of every MDS system that you may not be aware of is called Find Tenant’s Deposit. While you aren’t likely to need it often, it will save you tons of time when you do. Let’s discuss how this feature can come in handy...

NYC Lease Renewal: The Best Feature To Boost Its Efficiency

NYC Lease Renewal: The Best Feature To Boost Its Efficiency

Here’s the way your life as a landlord has likely looked each month when it comes time to begin sending out an NYC lease renewal notice: Review expiring leases on a monthly basis and make decisions about new rates Print multiple copies of your upcoming renewals and supporting...

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Stay DHCR Compliant to Add Value

Staying DHCR Compliant Adds Value After attending CHIP's annual "Build, Buy, Hold, Sell: Strategies and Expectations for the NYC Real Estate Market" event, the big takeaway relevant to our business is clear. Staying DHCR compliant makes your portfolio more valuable. Savvy buyers often dig deep before closing to uncover compliance issues and will discount their offers accordingly, or even walk...

The New York City Apartment Management Checklist

Every now and then, we still run into a company managing apartments in New York City that doesn't subscribe to the New York City Apartment Management Checklist. While there is no silver bullet to keeping track of absolutely everything you will ever need to know in the world of New York City property management, this annual publication is a great, comprehensive resource that you can use for...

MDS Presents at CHIP’s “Technology & Multifamily Buildings” Seminar

On February 8, 2017, Adam Friedberg, Vice President at MDS Property Management Software, sat as an expert panelist at CHIP's "Technology and Multifamily Buildings: Amenities, Management, and Revenue Opportunities" seminar hosted at the New York City Bar Association to a capacity crowd. Presenting on the topic of "Internal Back-office Management Systems," Mr. Friedberg went on to participate in a...

Why Separate Modules for Commercial Real Estate Management?

It has never made much sense to our team that you should have to log into a separate system to handle commercial units.  After all, the core of what is required of a good residential or commercial property management system is the same.  Namely, bulletproof accounting, a well designed and easy to navigate user interface along with other core functionality like document imaging and work order...

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“Wow, that’s fast.” RapidPay is Live!

MDS officially launched our highly anticipated RapidPay Invoice Imaging system this week with a party at Heartland Brewery's Empire State Building location and I'm more excited than ever about what this product is going to do for our clients.  One of our Beta testers proactively came up to me and told me that "it took me a day to process this many invoices (as she held her hands fairly wide...

The RFP Approach to Purchasing Property Management Software

As someone that has seen and completed quite a few Property Management Software RFPs I can really sympathize with anyone trying to put one of these together.  The point of this exercise is of course to end up with a side by side comparison of competing systems to eventually choose the best solution. The potential problem with this approach is that it is exceptionally difficult for anyone to...

Setting a Higher Bar in New York

The more time I spend in the property management software industry, the more confident I get in the level of service and the quality of the product that we offer our clients.  Just recently, an intelligent, thoughtful prospect who’s experienced managing very large portfolios with some of the most popular (and expensive) programs on the market today, told me that “nobody is really happy with...

5 Things to Watch Out for When Shopping for Property Management Software

The flood of property management software systems coming onto the market today is making it more and more difficult for a consumer to make an educated decision as to which product will best suit their needs.  Here are five things to watch out for when shopping for property management software: 1.  Vendors That are New to the Market. It is a monumental task to design and test a comprehensive,...

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