Why Companies Use RentViewer

1. DESIGNED FOR THE EXCEL POWER USER

Do you work at a real estate company and spend a lot of time in Excel uncovering useful information? You probably already feel that a lot of your time is spent on less productive tasks such exporting data from systems, manually adding it to sheets and then updating those VLOOKUPs and SUMIFs. And keeping track of the many versions of spreadsheets.

If that describes you (or the people on your team), then keep reading. RentViewer will dramatically increase your productivity and you will be able to spend a lot more time uncovering information.

Automated Feeds from Systems

• RentViewer has pre-built connectors to commonly used systems. The latest data gets pulled in on a schedule so that your dashboards and models can get refreshed.

Excel Friendly

• Pull data directly into Excel to update your models. And pull only the columns you need so that you don’t have messy formulas to create additional columns or columns you don’t need.

 

Learn Analytics

• If pivot tables and Excel charts are the main ways you present your analysis and insights to the world, you are limiting your potential. With the RentViewer team’s help, you can learn to build dashboards and do data analytics using modern tools such as Tableau or Power BI. Also, look into our Real Estate Analytics 101 course

 

 

2. HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE

If you find yourself exporting data to Excel to create reports, that’s a sign that you need a highly customizable analytics platform like RentViewer. RentViewer is Excel-friendly. By creating data models specific for each process, such as collections, occupancy forecasting, work order management etc. you will be able to drill deep into your data and not waste time building complicated spreadsheets.

Custom Reporting Trees

• In addition to the account trees in your property management system, you can define your own trees for reporting to different audiences.

 

User Defined Fields

• Add columns that are not standard in your PMS to your reports and dashboards. Examples could be Loan Maturity Date, Asset Stabilization Date, Property MSA, Fund Ownership, Geographical Region etc.

 

Historical Snapshots

• Preserve prior versions of your budgets, rent rolls or proformas so that you can compare versions and track changes over time.

 

Artificial Intelligence Enabled

• AI is useful when it has good data to work with. With the RentViewer platform in place, we can help you implement AI capabilities for improvements in areas such as month-end close, automated alerts, occupancy prediction and more.

 

3. INTEGRATES MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES

Data from Other Systems

• Include data from other systems alongside your PMS data into your dashboards and models. For example, data from Asana, CRM systems, work order management systems, water meter data, loan data etc.

Data from Excel Files

• Data for Proformas and Deal Assumptions normally sits in Excel files. Include this data in your analysis, such as looking at Proforma vs Actual variances.
• There is a lot of useful data that is maintained in Excel files, such loan maturity dates, property stabilization dates, rent increase schedules, and targets for non-financial metrics, such as lease up, work order completion rates etc. Add these to your RentViewer data warehouse.

 

4. ENABLES A WIDE RANGE OF KPI

We all have unique ways of running our business, and therefore, a need for unique metrics to track how we are doing. For example, Rental Income might exclude specific revenue sources. Capital projects should be charged to only specific GL accounts. Occupancy ratios should include only

Unlimited Number of KPI

• Are you limited to the KPI available in the product, or can you define your own custom calculations?

 

5. SIMPLIFIES DASHBOARD DEVELOPMENT

Dashboard  projects hit a brick wall when the data models become complicated. When there are lots of tables to join, and the whole design becomes brittle. That’s when RentViewer comes to the rescue! R

Choice of Front-Ends

• Use your preferred front-end tool for building dashboards, such as Power BI or Tableau, Looker or Excel.

 

Build Your Own Dashboards

• Your team can build their own dashboards and not be limited to the out-of-the-box dashboards that packaged products offer.
• We help your team learn the technology and simplify the process of connecting to the data warehouse so that data refreshes quickly and the dashboards can be modified easily without having to start over.

 

Ability to Drill Down

• Drill down from summary level data to transactions (such as from portfolio to property to unit). Put your pivot tables on steroids by having massive amounts of data easily available for drilling down into.

 

Excel-Friendly

• Data in the RentViewer data warehouse can be pulled into Excel for customized models and pivot tables.

 

 

 

6. BUILT WITH ROBUST TECHNOLOGY

RentViewer has been built for the enterprise. No flimsy spreadsheets with unsecure API connections!

Our data connectors have been built with the C# programming language, and your data warehouse will be housed on secure cloud machines on Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services. We have thorough process for designing, building and testing the solutions we build. You will be getting a data infrastructure that is managed professionally by server administrators and data engineers.

 

7. SUPPORT & COMMUNITY

Your team is not alone on your data analytics journey. Our key differentiator is to enable your analysts to become self-sufficient in building models and uncovering insights.

 Tech Support

• Support for technical questions about your analytics and dashboard projects is included. We offer “Office Hours” where your team can meet us, discuss data challenges, and brainstorm solutions together.
• Is tech support available for investigating data discrepancies?

 

Community

• We provide mentoring for enhancing internal dashboard development capability as well as ensuring widespread adoption and ROI on your analytics investment.
• There are opportunities to engage and learn from your peers in other companies that using RentViewer.

 

8. SIMPLE PRICING

We offer three editions of RentViewer at three different pricing levels. As your appetite for data grows, simply upgrade to a higher tier.

Pay for Only What You Need

• You will not be paying for a bundle of pre-built dashboards that you intend to use.

 

Tiered Programs

• RentViewer is not a on-size fits all  product. Data Warehouse pricing can be determined by looking at our three pricing tiers.

 

No Long-Term Contracts

• We don’t lock you into a long-term contract.
• Most of our standard plans don’t involve a setup fee.

 

9. REQUIRED FOR AI

Successful AI applications require good, clean structured data. That’s exactly what RentViewer provides you. Plug in your AI applications to your data housed in the RentViewer platform.

Our first AI application (the Month-End Close Assistant) utilizes General Ledger data. We have another AI application in development for deal analysis. It utilizes historical pro formas and actual vs pro forma analysis to inform acquisition teams.

10. VALUE GUARANTEE

RentViewer is designed to make real estate companies more money using data analytics. We are so confident that RentViewer pays for itself multiple times over if you follow a few simple recommendations. If you are not seeing value, you can simply cancel.

Cancel Anytime

• If you are unable to use RentViewer because you’ve got other priorities, or key team members have left  … simply cancel the program. You are not locked into a long-term agreement.