What's included in Gopher Boss for Landlords
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.