Comments on: Buildium Property Management Software Review

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:30:25 +0000

I am managing 10 units and acquiring numerous more shortly. I have a very full time job. Looked at Propertyware, Appfolio, Rental Manager, and Buildium. Buildium, in my view, is the best hands down. Outstanding functionality, easy to use, outstanding value, and great customer service.

By: StLouisRealtor

StLouisRealtor — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:10:41 +0000

Thanks for all the reviews, I am thinking about signing up with Buildium myself, and was looking for a site that actually had real people talking about it. So far the only thing keeping me from signing up is the very high fees to get someone there on the phone. I think its $200.00 just to have them walk you through how the software works. I guess this makes sense so we dont call and take up hours of their time, but I just wasnt used to seeing it.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:20:48 +0000

Buildium is great for managing the books for properties, but it’s terrible for managing books for your company. Buildium support would agree with this, but I wanted to put that out there as an FYI. I’ve learned a lot of the tricks involved in making it manage the books for our company as well, but it might be easier to use another product to manage the company books.

By: Robb

Robb — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:31:24 +0000

I absolutely love this product. We currently manage 40+ units using Buildium and our business is growing. Many of our rental owners live out of state and the Rental Owner Portal is a terrific feature to allow us to transfer funds to them, allow them to run their own reports, and truly run our business “paperless”.

The folks at Buildium are responsive and knowledgeable. They are also constantly working and implementing new features. The service is there, the functionality is great, and the price is right.

By: Tony Sena

Tony Sena — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:35:31 +0000

I just started using their software and can’t say I have any complaints. So far I am very happy with their software and services. I definitely would recommend it to anyone thinking about starting a property management business.

By: Rent New Tampa

Rent New Tampa — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:48:23 +0000

Buildium has been evolving quite a bit over the past year. I have been using it to manage all of the properties for a new management company in Florida and it has been a great fit so far.

While I do understand the concern with a “web based” system relating to hurricanes (I am in Florida too), unless you are keeping regular backups of all your excel spreadsheets and accounting software at a remote out of state location, a hurricane or fire could also cause you serious problems if you lose everything in your office, etc.

I still use an accounting solution in conjunction with Buildium… but the web interface really helps in managing customers and tenants alike.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:42:39 +0000

Cliff,
The current pricing for online payments is here: http://www.buildium.com/Home/Pricing.shtml#onlinepayments

There’s an application fee and a per transaction fee which is a flat amount which is nice.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:45:04 +0000

You’re a fellow recovering Engineer? Nice!

I am finding it hard to believe the service is only $20/month. Usually to accept payments, processors charge a percentage of the price (2 to 3%). Does this service only charge the $20 for that? Or does it charge the addition fee?