The APM Help Blog

Our best practices to help you file W-9s and 1099-NECs quickly and accurately this coming tax season! We've outlined the steps for success in this blog post.

If your trust accounts were audited today, would your books pass? The answer may surprise you. Check out today’s blog to determine how well your company would do.

Unpaid tenant balances are never fun to deal with, but today we'll discuss all of your options to handle bad debt from renters.

Completing a move out in AppFolio is one thing, but completing a clean move out is entirely different. Read our tips and tricks for accurate move out accounting!

We're glad you asked! Find out who APM Help is and how we help property managers clean up their books and stay clean.

Bank switches in AppFolio don't have to be hard or scary. Follow these few simple steps and your bank switch will be a breeze!

There are multiple options when issuing a credit to a tenant in Buildium, and they all have unique features and applications. In this article, we will go over all the different ways you can issue a credit to a tenant in Buildium, how they differ, and the best uses of each in our experience as…

Explore the top 10 property management tips that every landlord should know to effectively manage their rental properties.

Here’s a scenario in which the Tenant has bounced payments more than once and you no longer want to allow this to continue. What are the Property Manager’s options? To start, it is important to consider that most property managers prefer that payments are made electronically. This saves time and virtually eliminates the possibility of…

ACB, TTO, RUBS, CAM... the list goes on! AppFolio has a lot of great features, but what do they mean? Here's our "cheat sheet" for all those acronyms you're wondering about.

Our very first recurring Trust Bookkeeping client using AppFolio went live in July 2017 and since then we've brought to market additional products & services such as Daily Audits, Daily Bank Recs, Corporate Bookkeeping, After Hours Call Center, Maintenance Coordination. When we introduced these new offerings, we didn't know how to price them so we went with whatever was easy. Along the way, even our Trust Bookkeeping pricing was adjusted to account for clients of different size, location, and business (SFR, MFR, HOA, commercial, etc) and we ended up with over 60 different pricing models and a billing nightmare.

Keep your owner relationships strong with transparency! In this post, we discuss ways that you can provide your owners with everything they need using AppFolio.

The Financial Diagnostics report is one of the most useful tools in AppFolio, however, most people don't know that it exists. Do you know how to make the corrections properly? We'll teach you!

Adjusted cash balance issues happen when the property balance(s) do not agree with transactions posted to the cash bank account. The database runs a check that involves the following process: Property balances (only from properties linked to the current bank account) Less unreconciled deposits Less unreconciled receipts deposited after the reconciliation period Plus unreconciled checks…

1099 season is already stressful, so don't let them get you in trouble with the IRS! Did you know THIS must be reported?