Managing a rental property is harder than many people realize when they first started leasing their properties. Besides the challenges that come with maintaining the property, collecting rent can become a real time sink. Collecting rent from tenants and depositing it into bank accounts becomes more laborious the more properties or units you manage. ClearNow has tools that can make these processes more manageable. Here are four ways that ClearNow can help landlords and tenants.
Setup a Payment Portal for Paying Rent Online
Getting a rent payment from an occupant can be surprisingly problematic. When people pay by mailing a check, some checks will get lost in the mail, which slows down payment. You have to wait for the renter to send a new payment or travel to pick up the check in person. ClearNow makes it easier for renters to make their payments by helping landlords set up online payment portals. With ClearNow, you get the service you need without having to run your own secure website for financial transactions. ClearNow has provided electronic rent payment since 2000 while maintaining a perfect BBB rating. Our system works for any property, whether you have one rental unit or a hundred thousand.
Provide Customer Service to Tenants Paying Rent
Using ClearNow for online rent payments also provides additional benefits for tenants. When you try to run your own online payment system from a website, there is no support for the tenant. Most online rent payment services do not have phone support. It’s essential to offer some technical support for web-based services since some of your tenants may not be extremely computer literate. With ClearNow, we have phone support Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. If your tenants are having trouble setting up their account or they encounter another issue, we’ll be there to help.
Ensure Landlords Get Paid on Time
For many property owners, it’s essential that they get their rent payments promptly. The money from the rent may be needed to pay expenses related to property management. Landlords can’t afford for money to be tied up in the banking ether. When you use ClearNow to collect rent payments, the money is always directly deposited three banking days after the debit day. How often you need to make deposits determines how which services from ClearNow you’ll need. Each ClearNow account debits on a specific day and credits to a specific bank account. Instead of setup fees, ClearNow fees are based on your debit day and are only charged when you attempt to debit a tenant. This way, property owners who only need a single monthly deposit pay less than larger management companies that need debits more often.
Improve the Credit Score of Your Tenants
Getting tenants to switch to online payments is easy with the intrinsic benefits of using ClearNow. When using ClearNow to pay rent, tenants improve their credit by paying their bills. Tenants can establish credit history by having ClearNow furnish data to Experian RentBureau.The rental data from Experian is updated every 24 hours, so every on-time payment helps your tenant. As Experian explains, “This quick turnaround and robust data impacts every point of decision making – from identifying higher-quality residents and improving bad-debt recovery to streamlining the collections process.” As you can see, there are a lot of benefits to using ClearNow to handle rent payments for your property. If you want to spend less time collecting and processing rent, while providing excellent features to your tenant, start using ClearNow today. Send us a message online if you have any question about using our services.