Tenantory | Property Management

Diane Morales

Solo landlord · Birmingham, AL

4 doorsPro planSwitched from AppFolio

9 hrs

Saved per week

$181

Monthly tool savings

7 days

Migration time

100%

On autopay now

"AppFolio was charging me $280/mo to do what I now do for $99. Plus my tenants used to ask me 'who is AppFolio?' — now they just see Morales Properties."

The before: Diane bought her first rental in 2019 and added three more by 2024. She started on AppFolio because that's what her real estate agent recommended. Within a year she was paying $280/mo for a tool that was overkill — and her tenants kept asking her about confusing AppFolio emails.

The switch: A friend in her REIA group mentioned Tenantory. She did the migration on a Saturday — exported her tenants and lease data from AppFolio, sent the CSV to Tenantory's support, was fully live by Monday morning.

The change: "The biggest thing isn't even the money — it's that everything is on my brand now. My tenants pay rent at morales-properties.tenantory.com. They get emails from hello@moralesproperties.com. They think I built it. I just signed up."

Before · stack

AppFolio Lite

QuickBooks Self-Employed

Squarespace site

$280/mo

After · stack

Tenantory Pro

$99/mo · saves $181/mo

Customer since Jan 2026Founders' cohortRead full case study →

"My 18 rooms used to take an entire weekend a month to reconcile. Now I close out the month in 35 minutes — including investor reports."

The before: Marcus runs three co-living houses in Atlanta with 18 individual rooms. He had spreadsheets feeding QuickBooks feeding a hand-coded landing page. Tenants paid through three different methods. Reconciling rent at month-end took an entire Saturday — and his investors wanted monthly reports he was building in PowerPoint.

The change that mattered most: "The per-room rent roll is the killer feature. Other PM tools think a 'unit' is an apartment. For co-living, that's useless — I needed a room as the unit. Tenantory got that on day one. Plus the investor PDF that auto-generates every month? My LPs love it. Makes me look like I have ops."

One unexpected win: his maintenance costs dropped 22% in the first quarter because his vendors actually adopted the vendor portal — fewer emergency calls, more scheduled visits. "Joel my plumber says it's the only PM tool he doesn't hate. I think that's a real bar."

Before · stack

Google Sheets (3 tabs deep)

QuickBooks Online

DocuSign + Stripe + manual receipts

PowerPoint investor reports

~$700/mo

After · stack

Tenantory Scale

$299/mo · saves $401/mo

Customer since Nov 2025Custom domain (atlcoliving.com)Read full case study →

Marcus Johnson

ATL Co-Living · Atlanta, GA

18 rooms · 3 housesScale planWhite-label

14 hrs

Saved per week

22%

Lower maintenance cost

35 min

Month-end close

100%

Investor adoption

Sarah & Tom Pruitt

Pruitt Family Rentals · Mobile, AL

12 SFHPro planFirst time using software

10 hrs

Saved per week

2 days

From late rent to paid

Spent on software before

12/12

Tenants on autopay

"We were running 12 properties out of a binder and Tom's iPhone notes app. Last tax season we paid our CPA $2,400 to figure it all out. This year, we'll print the Tax Pack and email it."

The before: Sarah and Tom inherited their first rental from Tom's father in 2018. They added one or two a year by buying foreclosures. Twelve houses later, they were still operating like they had two — paper leases in a binder, rent collected by mailed checks, repairs coordinated through Tom's contractor brother-in-law via text.

What broke them: Last tax season took 6 weekends. Their CPA charged $2,400 to reconstruct the year from receipts shoved in shoeboxes. "We knew we were leaving money on the table — depreciation, mileage, repairs we forgot to log. We just didn't know what to do about it."

The switch: "We'd never used PM software before. Tenantory's onboarding wizard literally walked us through everything. Fifteen minutes in, we had our first property up. By end of week one, all 12 tenants were on autopay. By end of month one, we'd recovered $4,800 in late fees and missed charges that we'd been forgetting to bill."

Before · stack

Three-ring binder + iPhone notes

Mailed paper checks

$2,400/yr CPA reconstruction

$200/mo equivalent

After · stack

Tenantory Pro

$99/mo · plus $4,800 recovered

Customer since Feb 2026Founders' cohortRead full case study →

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