A toilet breaks at 2 AM. Your system should handle it by morning.

Zero-touch maintenance pipeline. Tenant submits, vendor dispatches, owner approves from their phone. 45-minute workflows become 2-minute approvals.

source of tenant frustration: maintenance requests

THE PROBLEM

Maintenance coordination and tenant communication.

Maintenance requests are the #1 source of tenant frustration and landlord headaches. A request comes in, someone has to log it, find a vendor, schedule access, follow up, verify completion, and pay the vendor, across potentially hundreds of units.

THE SOLUTION

Zero-Touch Maintenance Pipeline

Tenant submits a request, it's categorized and prioritized automatically, the right vendor gets dispatched, the tenant gets status updates, the vendor submits completion photos, and the owner approves payment from their phone.

•Property management website with available listings and inquiry forms

•Tenant portal (submit maintenance requests, view lease info, make rent payments)

•Maintenance request tracker (submitted → assigned → scheduled → completed)

•Vendor directory with trade specialties and contact info

•Owner dashboard (properties, units, vacancy, rent roll, maintenance queue)

•Rent collection tracking (paid, pending, overdue by unit)

•Lease document storage organized by property and unit

•Automated rent reminders (configurable cadence)

Starting at

$3,500 – $25,000 setup + $175 – $1,250/mo

THE COMPARISON

How we compare

Buildium charges $62–375/month with non-customizable reports. AppFolio requires a $280/month minimum. We build for the 10–100 unit landlord who needs real maintenance automation without enterprise pricing.

Solution

Price

Limitation

Buildium

$62–$375+/mo

Reports non-customizable. Document management has no folder structure. Limited integrations.

AppFolio

$280+/mo + annual contract

$280/month minimum. Annual auto-renewing contract. Per-unit pricing gets expensive fast.

Rent Manager

Custom quotes

Enterprise complexity for a small portfolio.

TenantCloud

Free–$35/mo

Free plan lacks essential features. No automated reminders at free tier.

RentRedi

~$12–$29/mo

Budget but extremely basic. No maintenance workflow automation.

★Banana Blueprint

$175 – $1,250/mo

Full system. No limitations.

Buildium

$62–$375+/mo

Reports non-customizable. Document management has no folder structure. Limited integrations.

AppFolio

$280+/mo + annual contract

$280/month minimum. Annual auto-renewing contract. Per-unit pricing gets expensive fast.

Rent Manager

Custom quotes

Enterprise complexity for a small portfolio.

TenantCloud

Free–$35/mo

Free plan lacks essential features. No automated reminders at free tier.

RentRedi

~$12–$29/mo

Budget but extremely basic. No maintenance workflow automation.

Simple

Track utility billing by unit for owner-paid utilities

Setup

$149

Monthly

+$9/mo

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A toilet breaks at 2 AM. Your system should handle it by morning.

Property management isn't glamorous. A pipe bursts, a tenant complains, and suddenly you're calling plumbers at midnight while trying to remember which vendor you used last time. We build systems that handle the chaos so you don't have to. Tenant submits a request. The right vendor gets notified automatically. The tenant sees the status. You approve from your phone. No phone tag. No lost requests. No angry tenants wondering if anyone heard them.

Or email us: bbteam@bananablueprint.com