Best landlord management software
- Due before they get the keys
- 2,775
- Prorated first month
- 925
- Deposit held
- 1,850
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Landlord management software is bought at a decision point rather than a portfolio size: the moment self-managing stops being obviously cheaper than paying an agent. Software moves that point, which is the real reason to price it against the agent's fee rather than against other software. This page sets out both sides of that comparison honestly, including the parts software does not help with.
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Price the agent properly first
A management fee is a percentage of rent, and alongside it sit letting fees, renewal fees, inspection charges and marked-up maintenance. Add them into an annual figure for your actual portfolio. That number, not a software price list, is what the software is competing with, and it is usually considerably larger than landlords assume when they quote the headline percentage alone.
Be honest about what software does not do
It does not view the property, meet a contractor, have the awkward conversation about arrears, or be available when you are abroad. It records, reminds and calculates. If the reason you are considering an agent is availability rather than administration, software solves the wrong half and you will end up paying for both. That is a common and avoidable outcome.
Count the compliance calendar as a feature
The strongest argument for software in a self-managed portfolio is the statutory calendar: certificates, inspections, deposit deadlines and notice periods. Those are what an agent is genuinely useful for and what a diary with an owner replicates at almost no cost. A product that holds them, with dates and evidence attached, is doing the highest-value part of the job.
Decide the hybrid deliberately
Many landlords let through an agent and manage themselves, or manage themselves and use an agent for tenant find. Both are reasonable and both need the records to end up in one place. Agree at the start who holds the tenancy file and in what form, because a split arrangement with two half-records is worse than either option run properly.
Lettza Pro
Keeping the rent against the tenancy that owes it
A worksheet answers the question in front of you and forgets it. A let does not forget: the lease has dates, the rent falls due every month, the arrears carry, and the work order raised in July is the one the owner asks about in October. Lettza Pro keeps every property, unit, lease and tenant, the rent charged and received against each, and every document rendered from that record rather than retyped into it.
- Download the document as a file to send to a tenant or an owner
- Your lease and rent roll without our name on them
- Save a worked tenancy and open it again next month
- Your business name and logo on every document you print
- Take every property, lease, ledger and document out at once
- Email the invoice, receipt or reference letter straight from the record
- Take rent by card or bank debit through your own Stripe account
- Send what you collect to your accounting software instead of retyping it
$49per month, whole team
Start Lettza Pro PricingLettza Pro is $49 per month and renews automatically each month on the day you started, until you cancel. The price and the renewal date are shown before you pay and again on your account page, and we email you if the price ever changes before it takes effect.
What the person managing the let asks before running the Best landlord management software
At what point does self-managing stop paying? When the time it takes, valued honestly, exceeds the agent's total annual fee, or when you cannot be available and nobody else is.
Does software replace an agent? It replaces the administration, not the presence. If availability is the problem, software is the wrong purchase.
What is the highest-value feature for a self-managing landlord? The compliance calendar with evidence attached, because missing a statutory date is the error with a fixed price.
Ask us about your lettings paperwork
Ask us anything about running the let with Lettza: whether it fits the way you charge rent, how the record handles a mid-tenancy rent change, what moves across if you are coming off a spreadsheet, or how the documents come out with your own name on them.