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Yardi Breeze Review: A Commercial Property Manager's Perspective (Plus 5 Alternatives)

Summary

Yardi presents two options for their customers - Yardi Breeze and Yardi Voyager.

Yardi Breeze is the more user-friendly, cloud-based property management software designed to handle various types of rental properties, including residential, commercial, self-storage, manufactured housing, and affordable housing. It offers a comprehensive set of features to streamline property management tasks and improve efficiency. As a product in the multi-billion dollar global property management industry, Yardi Breeze has positioned itself as one of the leading solutions in the market.

What are Yardi Breeze's key features?

  • Marketing and Leasing: Simplifies property listing on various sites and automates online property listings. Allows potential tenants to complete and submit applications online.
  • Rent Collection: Facilitates efficient rent collection with online payment options for tenants, including debit cards, credit cards, and ACH transfers.
  • Accounting Suite: Offers a robust accounting system covering payables, receivables, general ledger functions, and financial statement generation.
  • Owner Tools: Provides tools for property owners and landlords, including onboarding processes, financial calculators, and report generation.
  • Property Maintenance: Features an online system for tenants to submit maintenance requests, which are then directed to property managers and landlords.
  • Cloud-Based Access: Allows users to manage properties from anywhere, using computers, laptops, or smartphones.

How is it priced?

Yardi Breeze's pricing model is based on property type:

  • Residential Properties: $1 per unit per month (minimum $100/month)
  • Commercial Properties: $2 per unit per month (minimum $200/month)
  • Other Property Types (e.g., Affordable Housing): Requires Yardi Breeze Premier, starting at $3 per unit per month (minimum $400/month, based on annual agreement)

What are some of the pros & cons?

Pros

  • User-friendly interface and easy to learn.
  • Comprehensive feature set covering various aspects of property managementSuitable for different types of properties (residential, commercial, etc.)
  • Cloud-based system allowing access from anywhere

Cons

  • Pricing can be relatively high, especially for smaller property portfolios
  • More advanced features may require upgrading to Yardi Breeze Premier
  • Minimum monthly charges may be prohibitive for very small operations

What are the top 5 alternatives?

 

1. Re-Leased

We're biased no doubt, but Re-Leased is entirely focused on commercial real estate. Our focus on the commercial property makes us the best in the market for commercial property management. We understand what commercial professionals need and make the complex, simple because that’s what great technology should do.

We are also accounting system agnostic and let you use your specialist systems like Quickbooks, Xero, Sage or NetSuite with the best two way integrations in the market. Ready to take a peak inside the product?

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2. Appfolio

A more user-friendly option that caters to both residential and commercial properties, suitable for smaller to mid-sized portfolios.


3. DoorLoop

DoorLoop’s software is built for property managers, management companies, owners, landlords, investors, or anyone managing any type of property worldwide. Like Appfolio it is a more generalist around property type, but DoorLoop is specifically designed for property managers with smaller portfolios. 

4. Buildium

Buildium’s software is designed for residential property managers, property managers with mixed portfolios, and managers of community and homeowners associations. Like DoorLoop, it’s a good place to start if you’re just getting into property management and have a small portfolio.

 

5. MRI Software

Founded in 1971, MRI has been around the block when it comes to the real estate industry. They offer both residential and commercial solutions that are ideally suited to companies managing large portfolios. 

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