Housify
Features

What Housify does.

Not a checklist of modules — one workflow, from the first showing to the last deposit statement. Here is each step, in the order a tenancy happens.

Properties

Every unit with its licences, lead certificate, insurance, taxes, HOA, loan and utilities, set up once through a guided wizard and edited one section at a time.

  • Rental licence and lead certificate tracking with expiry tasks
  • Property-level classes so every dollar is reported by door
  • Documents filed under the property, visible to the owner

Prospects → tenants

Applications and co-applicants become tenants with one click; the lease, deposit and first month's rent are posted the moment it is signed.

  • Voucher tenants: the county's share and the tenant's share, each on its own claim
  • Same-name tenants kept apart by id, never by name
  • Portal invite with a magic link, no passwords to hand out

Leases & e-signing

A Maryland residential lease drafted from the record, sent for signature and returned as a sealed PDF with a certificate of completion.

  • Initials on every page; typed or drawn signatures in a handwriting face
  • Move-in checklist sized to the unit, GCAAR lead disclosure, EPA pamphlet, MDE tenant-rights notice and the lead certificate copy, all attached automatically
  • Renewal offers with accept / decline, then the next lease in one step
  • Maryland Tenants' Bill of Rights and acknowledgment in every envelope

Rent, ledgers & late fees

A ledger per tenant that applies payments month by month: the oldest fee, then that month's rent, then the next month.

  • Late-fee rules per company, with the notice the law requires
  • Rent changes with an effective date that cascade everywhere
  • Deposit held, returned or applied with the statement the tenant must receive

Accounting

Real double-entry books. A chart of accounts, journal entries, recurring entries, class tracking, opening balances and reconciliation.

  • Import a QuickBooks Desktop journal and account list to carry the history over
  • Every report exports to Excel with formulas, not pasted numbers
  • Owner statements and distributions for the properties you manage for others

Banking

Connect your bank through Teller or Plaid; transactions arrive daily and are matched to what the books expect.

  • Rules that categorise the recurring ones for you
  • Splits posted as one atomic entry — never half a transaction
  • Reconcile against the statement; a saved reconciliation becomes a report

Notices & court forms

Failure to pay rent, handled the way the Maryland District Court wants it.

  • Notice of intent, DC-CV-082 complaint and DC-CV-081 petition, filled from the ledger
  • Signed by the name that signs for your company, in a script font
  • Each case tracked from notice to hearing to warrant, with the dates the law sets

Utilities

Water, gas and electric per property, with the account in the right name at every move-in and move-out.

  • Bills fetched from WSSC, Washington Gas, Pepco, BGE and SMECO and queued for approval
  • Payment runs that leave a record on the ledger and in the vendor's history
  • The tenant never inherits the owner's account; the final bill rule is enforced

Maintenance & vendors

Work orders with priority, photos and a vendor, from the tenant's request to the invoice on the books.

  • Emergency flagging on the dashboard
  • Vendor invoices posted as bills and paid from the bank feed
  • Inspections with a report the owner can see

Messages & texting

Email and texts from one place, every one logged on the tenant.

  • Rent reminders, renewal notices, lease-expiry and insurance-expiry warnings on a schedule you set
  • Texts sent from your own Google Voice number, with the ledger attached as a picture
  • Tenant and owner portals with documents, payments and requests

Tasks & approvals

The app computes what is due from your data and gives one place to approve money movements.

  • Expiring leases, unsigned documents, late rent, missing licences, bills awaiting payment
  • Approvals for the accounting tier: nothing moves money without a second look
  • Every task opens the record and returns you to the list

Housy AI

Ask questions of your own data in plain English and get the numbers back.

  • Overdue tenants, balances, ledgers, spending, vacancies, lease expiries
  • Read-only by design; every question is logged in the audit trail
  • Runs on Cloudflare's models — your data is never used for training

Security & audit

Row-level security on every table, encrypted credentials, and an audit trail of every change by whom and when.

  • Roles: admin, manager, office assistant, accountant, maintenance, owner, tenant
  • Error log that captures the exact database message, so nothing fails silently
  • Soft delete everywhere; nothing in your books is ever hard-deleted

Built for the DMV first.

Maryland leases, notices and court forms are native. Virginia and DC properties run on the same books, portals and bank feeds.

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