Websites for Property Management

Your phone rings for three reasons — rent, a broken furnace, or an owner asking where last month's distribution is. A website that actually helps answers the first two without the phone ever ringing, and delivers the third on a schedule so the owner stops asking.

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Industry Needs

Tenant rent payment with pre-authorized debit or card

Maintenance ticketing with trade dispatch and photo evidence

Lease document storage accessible to the tenant

Owner statement cadence — monthly distributions and annual summary

Vacancy listings routed to the right rental platforms

Choose Your Path

Path A

WordPress / WooCommerce

Best for solo or small teams
Fast launch
Plugin-based flexibility

Path B

React / Django Custom

Best for growing organizations
Phased rollout
Complete ownership

Growth Roadmap

Path A can be your starting point. Path B is where you evolve when operations demand more.

Professional Website

Establish credibility online

Structured Intake

Forms, booking, document collection

Client Area

Billing, retainers, basic portal

Custom Portal

Full system ownership

Path A — WordPress / WooCommerce

Managers of up to roughly 30 doors, typically residential, where rent is still collected by EFT and maintenance goes through a phone number. The site's job is to fill vacancies quickly and give owners and tenants a credible front door — everything else stays in the property accounting tool.

Phases

1.Marketing site focused on available units and the owner pitch
2.Online rental application routed to the property manager
3.Basic maintenance request form that routes to the trade dispatcher

Core Pages

Home / About / Team
Available Units (with floor plan, photos, neighbourhood context)
For Tenants (how to apply, what's included, rules)
For Owners (services, fee structure, reporting cadence)
Maintenance Request
Contact / Apply

Core Features

Unit listings with photo galleries, rent, parking, utilities
Online rental application with credit check handoff
Maintenance request form with photo upload routed to trades
Owner enquiry form with portfolio-size qualification
Integration with rentals.ca / Kijiji / Facebook Marketplace listing exports

Limitations

•No tenant login — rent chased by reminder emails or EFT paperwork
•Maintenance status answered by phone; trades coordinate by text
•Owner statements emailed monthly as PDF — no self-serve archive
•No audit trail of when tenants received notices or lease amendments

Path B — React / Django Custom

Managers running 50+ doors, mixed residential and commercial portfolios, or condo corporations where tenant self-serve and owner transparency materially reduce phone volume. Also right when an owner portfolio demands monthly statements + annual T776-ready summaries.

Phases

1.Tenant portal with rent payment, lease documents, and notices
2.Maintenance ticketing with trade assignment, photo evidence, and completion sign-off
3.Owner portal with monthly statements, distributions, and document archive
4.Document trail for notices (N4 / N5 / lease amendments) with timestamped delivery

Core Features

Tenant login with rent payment (PAD, card, Interac)
Per-tenant lease, rules, and notice archive
Maintenance ticketing with trade dispatch, photo evidence, SLA timer
Owner dashboard with per-unit P&L, monthly statement, year-end summary
Vendor / trade management with insurance and licence tracking
Notice delivery with timestamp + read confirmation (N4, N5, rent increase)
Integration or export to property accounting (Yardi Breeze / AppFolio / Buildium)

Our Recommendation

For most Ontario property managers, Path A covers 80% of what the website needs to do — the property accounting tool already handles the ledger, and the site's measurable job is filling vacancies and routing tenant requests. Path B pays back when door count crosses ~50, when an owner portfolio starts asking for self-serve statements, or when phone volume from tenants eats a full day a week. Coordinate Path B with whatever property accounting system already holds the ledger — rebuilding it from scratch is rarely worth it.

Why This Matters

Own your website and data

Avoid unnecessary platform lock-in

Build around your workflow

Add private infrastructure when needed

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