Digital inventory, here’s why it’s important.

“Clutter isn’t just the stuff on the floor, it’s anything that gets between you and the life you want to be living.” This saying by famed Australian organizer Peter Walsh is a profound one. It speaks to the hundreds of little details that get tacked on to our to-do lists and add stress to our already over scheduled lives.  While we can’t always take things completely off our plate, there are tools at our disposal that we can use to virtually declutter our lives. All-in-one platforms, for example, allow us to create a digital inventory of our physical assets that we have at our fingertips 24/7.  Here are some things people include in their digital inventory, and how having one of your own can make your life easier. Everyday Items: You’re still working from home and realize you’re out…

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Here’s how embracing property management software can allow property managers to provide the best possible service.

Once upon a time, the ability to multitask was considered the mark of a competent individual and certainly an ideal employee. While more recent studies indicate that focusing on one task at a time is actually more efficient, not to mention healthier, that is not always realistic. Property managers, for example, will always have several balls in the air – that’s just the nature of the beast. However, utilizing technology – an area in which the real estate industry has typically lagged – makes juggling their many tasks infinitely easier. This goes beyond run-of-the-mill desktop software, where one would still need to log on from a computer, to EstateSpace property management software that give property managers the ability to handle all aspects of their job from anywhere in the world.  Here are some ways in which such solutions are…

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5 Annoying Aspects of Homeownership That Can Be Solved with Property Management Solutions

For decades homeownership was the ultimate goal of most Americans, who viewed it not only as a sign of financial stability but an important milestone like getting married and starting a family.  More recently, especially after the Great Recession, people started to wonder if owning a home was more of an albatross than a life raft. There are good arguments on both sides, but one thing is clear: like most things in life, homeownership is a tradeoff. You have dominion over your space, until the Home Owners Association gripes about the non-native shrubs you planted in the yard. You love the original eighteen-century fireplace, until an obstruction of the chimney draws smoke into the living room on frigid winter night. No matter what else is going on in your life, if there is a problem at home you have…

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