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Before Buying Quicken Property Manager 2011,
You Should Read This Review PART 2

Moving on to Part 2 of our Quicken Property Manager review, we shall dig deep and unearth its drawbacks and problems. Read on and decide for yourself if Quicken is still worth your money and time.

Do you know what are the major features and unique benefits of this software?
If No, Click here for Part 1 of our Quicken Rental Property Manager Review.


What We Don't Like about Quicken Property Manager 2010 (and 2011)

While this Quicken landlord software does come with respectable accounting features, it falls short on where it really matters: rental property functions for landlords and property managers.

One important reason for buying property management software is for the rental reports it is able to produce. If done well, these rental reports can be invaluable when it comes to saving time and figuring out the health of your rental business.

Sad to say this is one area where the Quicken landlord software is seriously lacking - It produces just 4 measly reports, half of which are tax reports. Compare this with another popular property management software such as LandlordMax, which churns out over 100 helpful reports (complete with bar graphs) that paint a complete picture of your rental business at a glance.

Pushing on with our Quicken Property Management software review, we find that the "Rental Property" tab (which stores all your property and tenant details) is too basic to be useful. They only allow you to enter the bare-bones information such as personal particulars for tenants and addresses for properties. An Excel spreadsheet can do better than that.

Worse still, there is no way for you to insert additional notes and details... and you can certainly forget about uploading pictures and documents such as tenant photos or bill receipts to it.

At the end of the day, Quicken's overall features are limited to rental accounting, data storage and reminders. For people with more properties or those wanting to make their lives even easier, other property management programs like Buildium offers much more, including running tenant credit checks, accepting rent online or even advertising your vacant properties.

Our Conclusion and Recommendations for Quicken Property Manager

This Quicken property management software is one of the those programs where new versions and updates actually do more harm than good. What was once a clean, well-designed and newbie-friendly program (way back in Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.0) ... has deteriorated into a cluttered software with weak property management features.

Perhaps this is a sign that Quicken should just stick to making personal finance software, and leave property management software to companies that understand the needs of landlords and property managers better.

It's not to say that Quicken Property Manager is a piece of junk - It's just that for the same price tag, you can be getting so much more with other rental property software. That's why we no longer recommend Quicken Property Management software to landlords or property managers.

Features and Design: 5 / 10
 Ease of Use: 6 / 10 Value for Money: 5 / 10

Overall Score: 5 / 10

So What are the Rental Property Software that We Highly Recommend?

If you want to leave your rental property tasks on auto-pilot or manage a larger number of rental properties, Buildium is a low-cost property management program that will serve your needs well:

Buildium Mini Logo Click Here for Our Complete Buildium Online Property Management Review.

For a price close to Quicken's, LandlordMax offers a lot more bang for your buck. Apart from having more powerful and useful features, what's surprising is that it is actually easier to use:

LandlordMax Mini Logo Click Here for Our Full LandlordMax Property Management Software Review.



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