If you would like the username changed there is a request form on the system settings screen. Fax or post it (or email us your details) and we will happily issue you with a new keycode.

An Owner is the legal entity which owns one or more of your properties. An Owner may, infact, be more than one person grouped together by a partnership or company.

It is not uncommon for a person to own properties through more than one legal entity and, for taxation purposes, the records need to be kept separately.

Alternatively, if you helped a friend or client to manage properties you would need to be able to identify which properties, receipts and payments were relevant to them. Creating an Owner for your friend and attaching the properties to that new Owner would let you do this.

For this reason PC Property Manager requires you to create atleast one Owner in your system.

PC Property Manager is a valuable tool for owners who use Property Managers as you control the business side of the investment while the Manager controls the day to day property issues.

Learn how to process rent receipts from a Manager.

What date do I use for the last date of a tenancy?

Enter the last full day that the tenant must pay for.
They may pay up until the 6th of a month, but move out on the morning of the 7th with the new tenants moving in that afternoon.

A Bank Account can be set up for reconciliation at any point in time - or reconciliations can be left out. The easiest way is to start recording transactions from particular bank statement. Give that statement number, START date, and the opening balance. Then enter the transactions and the bank reconciliations should be nice and simple.

Chattels and Buildings which can be depreciated are entered against a property.

Depreciation can either be started from the purchase date or the start of the current financial year.

There isn’t a huge difference going forward. It may be easier to start with the (approximate) purchase date as you may not have a current chattels valuation.

The date format when you install PC Property Manager is set to MDY so Christmas Day will be shown as 12-25-2003.

If you are used to another date format, for instance DMY then you will get an invalid date message when entering 25-12-2003. See Changing the date format.

It is recommended that the date settings within PC Property Manager match that of your Windows Operating System.

PC Property Manager allows you to change the date format through the Options screen.

You can see what the date will look like before saving.

It is recommended that you use the same date format as Windows.

Prior to version 2.1 the Options screen was called Preferences.

PC Property Manager supports any decimal based currency. The currency label, ie the $ or � can be set in the terminology section and changed to any label required. This will be used in reports. Only one currency label can be set.

When reports are previewed or printed PC Property Manager uses your default printer settings to determine your preferred paper size.

If you do not have a printer “set as default” PC Property Manager will fail with a “125 error”. You will need to set a default printer.

If you do not have a printer installed or attached to your PC you can set up a virtual printer in the same way that you would set up a real printer.
This printer can then be deleted when you add a real printer.

If this requirement causes problems please let us know and we will work together to find a suitable solution.