Quicken Rental Property Manager 2009

We have just gotten in to the rental business & this software is great! It automatically gets the tax deductable items marked for tax time. It produces tax paperwork so all we have to do is print it out during tax season & if we do our taxes ourselves, it transfers the info to Turbo Tax. We also keep track of our personal accounting with this. I highly recommend Quicken Rental Property Manager for anyone who is in rental business. This software is very easy to use, as well.

I was a Quicken Beta tester for 2009 Quicken Rental Property Manager. Each year Quicken has refined and added new features to it's financial software. This program builds on the Quicken platform. The Rental Property Manager adds tracking rental properties and rental property businesses to the Quicken financial software package. This new dimension provides valuable financial and tax tracking for those in the rental property business.

I Beta Test Intuit products and this year I tested the Quicken Property Manager 2009. I found it so easy and useful I have recommended it to my clients with multiple rental properties (which will make my job so much faster when preparing their taxes). Keeping your personal finances, rental properties, investments, household assets, everything you pay for has been simplified either by entering into a register or a easy walk through. Although, I use many different financial products (whatever a client uses)I keep my personal finances in Quicken and recommend my clients change to Quicken so when they have a question I can walk them through it.I really liked the Property Management Edition.

I've used Quicken since the late 80s. I've tried MS Money, as well as other small accounting programs, but I always come back to Quicken. Though there are small things I do not like about Quicken (all the commercial stuff that gets offered) over all, I really think it is the best personal accounting system on the market.
It is extremely easy to use. It looks just like a check book register, so there's nothing to using it to keep track of basic spending.
It's also easy to set up categories and sub categories (like UTILITIES:SoCalGAS, UTILITIES:DWP) for your transactions so you can put everything into spending groups, for taxes or specialized reports, or just to be able to print out the payments to a particular payee or category like "INSURANCE:Health".
Once you put in your credit card accounts, Quicken will be able to download every transaction for you, and put it right where it belongs.
Those are just some of the very basic things Quicken can do. The Property Manager lets you enter each property you need to keep track of. You can enter who is renting what, like Mr. Jones in Unit 101; or in my case, the company leasing my commercial property. When the least took affect, what the rent is, what expenses you incur for the unit and the property in general. At years end, you can see exactly who paid what and what you spend. It is automatically connected to what every bank account you use so you don't have to enter transactions in two different places. But the things I love the best... you can attach PDF notes or scanned documents to each transaction. I download most of my bills now a days, utilities and credit card statements, and I when I make a payment, I click the attachment like and attach my statement and the online receipt I got when I authorized a payment. On CDs or other bank accounts, I click the interest transaction and attach the statements that to with that account. I attach all my utility bills to the payment transactions and receipts for items with warranties, so I always have them with the click of a button. I can run reports and print them in PDF format, so I can email a payee with all the information about monies I've paid to clear up any disputes Or I can export all transaction to a payee to excel. The new interface is more customizable than previous version, making it easier to set up the way you like to work.
You can pay bills in Quicken, or do anything any of the others do, but I think Quicken is easier to learn and more reliable.
I know that other accounting programs offer many of the same features, but over the years I've NEVER lost a file in Quicken. I've never had a problem upgrading a file or running reports on files that go back as far as 1988. The new Property Manager is wonderful, easy and quit complete and makes the new version of Quicken that much more of a must for people like me.