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Use this calculator to estimate the monthly cost for your portfolio.
Use this calculator to estimate the monthly cost for your portfolio.
It is easy to overestimate how many users need high-level professional and standard licences. For example, property owners and tenants use the respective portals to access their reports and service requests and do not require paid user licences. See this article (scroll down to the subheading “How many licences do you need?”) for more details.
Operating without property management software left Megan and Dillon unable to support further growth in their portfolio due to time-intensive manual accounting processes.
The automation in CRESSblue has completely removed the need for spreadsheets saving Megan five hours per week. Additionally, she chose to integrate CRESSblue with QuickBooks® Online. As a result, she has further reduced bookkeeping time by two hours per week. Her hourly value is $25 per hour, thus resulting in $700 per month in time savings.
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More professional operations and newfound agility to grow the portfolio
Old verbal agreements and lapsed documents resulted in the need to reestablish the current methods of calculating rents for many mixed-use properties. Renegotiating and formalizing new leases was a lengthy process. However, the new generation of partners gained a solid education in commercial real estate practice.
Formalizing the lease terms and implementing them in CRESSblue allowed for the automation of the CAM and capital expense recoveries. CRESSblue licencing fees were just under $700 per month. In summary, the investment portfolio had an immediate 16.3% increase in returns for the first year.
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Improved efficiency, more robust performance reporting and 16.3% portfolio value growth
In essence, this combination of multiple antiquated systems and isolated users resulted in an inability to realize the intended productivity gains.
Combining the merger with CRESSblue implementation created significant improvements. Systems integration allowed the reduction of main office staff from nine to seven. Also, regional office hours were reduced by 35% due to the efficiency of using role-based online systems and automated calculations resulting in additional cost savings. Additionally, all transactions included audit trails for expense allocations, including digital versions of the supporting documentation. Markedly, monthly reports were available an average of 40 days sooner than previously. Similarly, annual reconciliations are now completed within 60 days of the year-end.
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Centralized document control, standardized workflows, multi-role management, full audit trails and faster monthly reporting and annual reconciliations