It’s always a great feeling when customers and other webmasters email you to say how great they believe our property management software solutions are and that they would like to start promoting them to other landlords and investors.

In order to cater for the growing number these enquiries, we have now implemented our Property Portfolio Software – Affiliate Programme through which we have tried to incentivise our customers and other webmasters to pro-actively promote our software by offering generous commissions.

For example if you refer our Landlords Property Manager – Regular solution, you will earn £36.75 in commission. If you refer our Landlords Property Manager – Professional solution, you can earn a whopping £61.75 in commission! All this by just sending the customer to our site with your unique affiliate tracking code.

It takes less than a couple for minutes to join our affiliate programme. To learn more and start earning those affiliate commissions click the link.

The PPS Team are please to announce the addition of an online chat function to our home page at www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk

Online chat allows you to talk to a member of staff in real-time using a text-based interface. It’s just like Instant Messaging. If you have any questions about any of our services, you can discuss it live with a member of the team.

You can access this feature by clicking on the Live Support icon at the top right-hand corner and you can either speak directly to one of our Support staff or leave a message.

With the release of version 7.0 earlier this year, the software was rebranded to Landlord’s Property Manager Professional and Landlord’s Property Manager Regular. The titles Landlord’s Property Tax Manager and Property Portfolio Manager now refer only to version 6.0 and earlier versions. These versions will no longer be supported from 01 July 2008. If you are currently using version 6.0 and have not received or acted upon an email notification about this change, please contact us.

In December 2007 we underwent a re-branding exercise where we hired a software marketing specialist and conducted a major survey with our existing customers.

This week we have been busy upgrading our existing software customers to the newly launched software versions.

What branding has been done?

Well, Landlords Property Tax Manager, which we had been selling since 2003, has now been rebranded to Landlords Property Manager Professional.

And Property Portfolio Software has now been rebranded to Landlords Property Manager Regular.

Why has the software been rebranded?
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Lately I’ve been asking myself what the biggest problem facing Property Investors is. The answer? A growing portfolio!

Why is this? Surely a growing portfolio is a good thing? Well, as your portfolio grows, your paperwork grows with it. I know people who are drowning under paperwork and struggling to keep it organised. I know what that’s like. I used to be one of them. That’s why I got into designing property management software. I started investing back in 1999 and according to the results of our recent analysis of 3 years of customer feedback, nothing much has changed! Paperwork is still the biggest problem for Landlords.

The top 5 concerns were:

1. Increasing paperwork: keeping on top of bills and rental income

2. Staying legal: keeping track of safety certificates and legal documents

3. Good tenant management: making sure they get the information they need

4. Income tax management: knowing what is due when

5. Maintaining a positive cash flow: becoming harder with increasing property prices

In other words, exactly the same problems I had in 1999 and all the same reasons I got into designing property management software!

You can check out the results of my labours here.