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What's included in Gopher Boss for Landlords

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What the app does for you. If a feature is switched off, it isn't listed.

Rent and money

  • Rent posted to every tenant's ledger each month
  • Reminders before rent is due, only to tenants who owe it
  • Interac e-Transfers recorded automatically from your forwarded emails
  • A receipt emailed for every payment
  • Every balance on one screen, with NSF and returned payments handled
  • Expenses by property and a CRA T776 summary at tax time
  • Upload your bank statement: deposits matched to rent, withdrawals to expenses
  • Commercial units too, with optional 13% HST on rent and receipts
  • Yearly rent statements for tenants, and owner statements

Ontario forms, filled in and e-signed

  • Standard Form of Lease (2229E), signed on any phone
  • N4 for unpaid rent, N1 rent increase, N9 and N11 to end a tenancy
  • L1 to the Board, with the N4 and Certificate of Service attached
  • Dates worked out for you, including extra days by mail or courier
  • Blocks late fees, wrong amounts and increases above the guideline
  • Flags lease terms that are void in Ontario as you write them, with the reason

British Columbia forms, filled in and e-signed

  • Residential Tenancy Agreement (RTB-1), signed on any phone
  • 10 Day Notice for unpaid rent (RTB-30) with its Proof of Service (RTB-34)
  • Rent increase (RTB-7), mutual agreement (RTB-8) and the tenant's notice to end
  • BC's dates, yearly rent increase limit, deposit and late-fee caps checked for you

Alberta notices, written to the Residential Tenancies Act

  • 14-day notice for unpaid rent, with the rent due and rent still to come listed separately
  • Rent increase notice, and the tenant's notice to end a monthly tenancy
  • Alberta's 14 clear days, 3 tenancy months, 365 days, registered mail and holidays checked for you

Quebec notices, on the Tribunal administratif du logement's own forms

  • Notice of rent increase or lease change, and notice of repossession, in French or English
  • The tenant's notice of non-renewal and answer to a lease change, from their portal
  • Civil Code notice periods and the tenant's month to answer checked for you; new rent scheduled once accepted

Repairs and contractors

  • Tenants report repairs with photos from their phone
  • Or by text or email: start with REPAIR: and it's a repair request, no login needed
  • Jobs offered to your contractors in order, with deadlines
  • Contractors accept, schedule and send invoices with one tap, no account
  • Replies by email filed on the job automatically
  • Ratings, plus a leaderboard for your contractors
  • Every message on the job, in one log

Visits and notices

  • Inspections for a whole building in one go, with proper notices of entry
  • Tenants confirm with one tap and say whether they'll be home; for a single unit they can ask for another time
  • Heads-up notices for work at the building, like a water shut-off
  • Message every tenant in a building at once, logged in each tenant's file

Finding your next tenant

  • A listing page for each vacant unit, with online applications
  • Viewing times people book, move or cancel with no account, with reminders
  • Advertise and show a unit before the current tenancy ends
  • A wait list that tells people when viewings open
  • A wait-list page and printable sign for each building, before anything is advertised
  • Tenant referrals: reward tenants who refer a new tenant with a credit you approve
  • A one-click check for an applicant's past Landlord and Tenant Board orders on Openroom

Records you can rely on

  • A timestamped file for every tenancy: every email, text, notice, signature and payment
  • Download it any time, for your records or the Board
  • What the app did for you on its own, in one list, with Undo where it's safe
  • Tenants' consent to notices by email, asked at sign-up and recorded with the date
  • Texts only go to numbers the person confirmed with a YES
  • Your data kept separate from every other landlord's; download all of it any time

Easy to start, easy to use

  • Import your units, tenants, expenses and past rent from Excel, CSV or a PDF
  • Add a tenant who already lives there, with their balance and paper lease
  • One form to add a tenant, owner or contractor
  • Tenants, contractors and owners never need to log in
  • Works on your phone; add it to your home screen like an app
  • Viewings, visits, compliance dates and lease ends in your Google, Apple or Outlook calendar
  • Free rent increase and N4 date calculators
  • Suggest features and vote for what we build next
  • A compliance checklist per property, with reminders and proof kept
  • Tenant insurance on file, with reminders before it expires
  • Insights from your own records: costs going up, repeat repairs, rent increases you can give
  • Changes in tenancy law, codes and by-laws where you rent, in plain words

AI assistant

Optional, $4 per unit a month

  • Reads new repair requests, sets urgency and trade, and gives tenants safety tips
  • Chases contractors for updates and invoices
  • Works automatically, or asks for your OK first
  • Never signs, serves notices, pays or deletes anything

What it costs

$4 a unit a month, capped at $39, and free for one unit, plus applicable taxes, after a free 30-day trial. No credit card to start.

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