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Tips for Adding Tenants to
Space Rental Tracker Plus

Using Tenant Tracker and Rental Income Tracker

Tenants are long-term renters that pay you month to month (as oposed to short-term tenants who come and go for shorter periods). You create Rent Receipts for Tenants in Rental Income Tracker. Tenant Notices are created in Tenant Tracker.

Reservation Confirmations and Receipts (for short term tenants - also referred to as "Guests") are created in Reservation Tracker. You can add Tenants from Space Unit Tracker or from Tenant Tracker.

In Space Unit Tracker click the Tenant Tab and then Add/Select Tenant. (OR In Tenant Tracker click the New button.) A Tenants window will open where you can add, modify and delete tenant names. Click Add Tenant and enter the First and Last names of the new tenant.

1) You will next be guided through entering the rental information for the new tenant including: Rent amount, Deposit amount, if the Deposit has been paid, the Lease End date (enter MTM for month to month rentals), the Late Charge (if you charge a daily charge after the late date, enter the primary charge followed by a comma and then the daily charge. For example, if you charge $25 plus $5 per day after the Late date, enter $25,$5), if the rental period is Weekly, Fortnightly (every two weeks), Multi-month (longer than one month) or Monthly, the Due Date (usually the 1st of the month) and the Late Date.

2) Click Add/Select Unit and choose the unit for the tenant. If you have several Tenants in one Unit, you have two options. First you can use the Additional Lease Name(s) field(in the Personal Info section) to add other tenants to one lease. If each tenant has their own separate lease then click the Multiple Tenancy option on the Rental Unit Tracker record, and add all the Tenants from there.

Multiple Units for one Tenant is not supported in this software. You can work around this by having multiple Tenant records for the same Tenant (add a middle initial or name to differentiate the tenant records).

3) Next enter the Moved In date. The software uses the Moved In date to determine how many months of payments to look for in determining if rent is past due and what the balance due is. So you need to pick the first Due date that you want to start entering rental payments into the software as the Moved In date.

If all your tenants have the same Due Date then you can enter a Default Moved In date in the Tenant Tracker Prefs window (click Prefs and then Tenant Tracker Prefs) and enter actual moved in dates on the individual Tenant Tracker records.

Most people don't want to go back very many months, so they just enter a fairly recent Due Date as the Moved In date and then enter the actual date the tenant moved in into the Unit History field on the Rental Unit Tracker record.

So, for example, if you start using the software in March and you want to include historical data for February, then the Defaut Moved In date should be February 1 (or the first day of that rental period).

You should enter the moved in date into the Unit History field in Rental Unit Tracker.

You can enter the actual Moved In date for recent and future tenants. This date is automatically entered into the Unit History field in Rental Unit Tracker.

4) Next click the Deposit Details button and indicate if the Deposit has been paid, and if so, on what date. You can also indicate if the rent has only partially been paid and when the deposit was returned to the tenant after moving out.

5) If your tenant receives a rent subsidy, click the Personal Info tab, then click the Rent Subsidy option and fill in the amount of the subsidy in the Rent Subsidy field. There are several other fields in the Personal Info section (in addition to the two phone fields at the top of the screen and an Other Phones field in the Notes section) that you can use to keep track of various information.

6) Recurring charges can be added to the rent each month by clicking Add/Select Charge, then selecting a charge and clicking Choose Charge. Use Create Charge to add new charge types.

7) If your tenant has a balance due or credit, enter the amount in the Balance Due field (put a minus sign before any credit amount). This amount will be added to the Rental Income Tracker Charges field automatically.

8) Now click Post New Rent to open Rental Income Tracker (or choose it from the Space Rental Tracker Menu). If you are already in Rental Income Tracker and want to create a new record, click the New button and choose a Tenant. If this is the first record for that tenant in Rental Income Tracker, you will be asked if this is a New Tenant (if so, the deposit will be added to the charges and the rent amount may be prorated) or just the First Payment for the tenant. The Starting Date, Ending Date and Late Date as well as the current months charges will all be automatically filled in for you. You can add any deposits, balances due or other charges to the Charges field by typing directly into the field or by clicking Add Charge and creating or choosing a charge.

9) Next click the Choose button above the Payment Date field and enter the date of the payment.

If the tenant made a partial payment on that date, enter the amount of the payment in the Payment field and click Create Receipt, then choose the date of the second payment and enter the amount of the second payment and click Create Receipt. All partial payments, for the same rental period, for any one tenant, should appear on one Rental Income Tracker record.

If the tenant paid in full, you just need to click the Create Receipt button which transfers the payment to the Payments field in Tenant tracker. It is important to remember to click the Create Receipt button after adding any payment to Rental Income Tracker so that it is posted to the Tenant's Payments field.

10) Then click the New button and enter the next months payment(s) for the same tenant, or you can choose another tenant.

There is much more information about each component of the software available by clicking the Help button in that component or window.

Choose Space Unit Tracker from the Space Rental Tracker Menu when you are ready to continue with adding units and learning about Reservation records, using Unit Chooser, the Availability Checker, and the Facility Map – click here to continue.



There is much more information about each component of the software available by clicking the Help button in that component or window.

If you have any questions or comments about the software, feel free to contact us.