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Sillplate (fictional inspection software for property managers)
Choosing property inspection software: what to test before you sign
It's 4:40 on a Friday. A tenant moves out Monday, the unit has water stains nobody mentioned, and the move-in photos are somewhere. A phone, a laptop, or a folder called "Final FINAL."
That's the problem inspection software exists to fix. It often does. It also sometimes swaps one mess for another: a tool your crew hates, photos that vanish in a basement with no signal, or pricing that made sense at 30 units and hurts at 300.
This guide is for people choosing, not people being sold to. We make one of these tools, so we'll say plainly where ours isn't the right fit. Demos are built around a best-case unit. Your units are not best-case. Here's what to test instead.