Software: Columbus Property Manager 2.0.3

The software program aims to replace “mountains of paper files” with simple computer-based property management for investors.

Columbus Property Manager stores financial and tenant information about your properties, including purchase price and valuations, rates, insurance, maintenance and tenant information. You can upload digital pictures of the property to the file as well – which can be useful to keep in one place if you want to keep a record of how the property looks over time – or have photographs on hand to go with rental advertisements. It downloaded from the internet and installed without any difficulties whatsoever.

It is not an accounting package that aims to keep track of rent payments, although it does summarise cash flow and equity on a per property basis.