AppFolio is a property management system with make-ready tracking built in. Rent Ready runs apartment turns for multifamily operators: scheduling, vendor backup, quality checks and vendor pay for the turn itself. Most operators run both. Here is what each one covers.
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Scope A property management system. Turns are one status field inside a much larger product | Scope Built only for the unit turn lifecycle, from Notice to Vacate to move-in ready |
Turn coordination Track a unit as make-ready. Scheduling, sequencing and vendor dispatch stay manual | Turn coordination Notice to Vacate starts the turn. Rent Ready schedules every trade in order and rebooks no-shows |
Vendor sourcing No vendor network. You find, vet and negotiate with every vendor yourself | Vendor sourcing Your vendors first, with vetted backup from the Rent Ready network |
Vendor pay Pay vendors through AP on your normal cycle | Vendor pay Rent Ready pays every vendor. Vendors can get paid weekly while you pay on your terms |
Quality control No turn-specific quality checks. Inspections are generic | Quality control Checklists per trade and before and after photos on every job, with quality checks by the operations team |
Turn cost visibility Costs land in the general ledger after the fact | Turn cost visibility Cost per turn by trade and property, while the turn is open |
Working together Owns the property record, the resident and the ledger | Working together Runs the turn and hands status back. Native for Yardi, RealPage and Entrata. Connects to AppFolio by API, file drop or FTP |
Scope (Competitor)
A property management system. Turns are one status field inside a much larger product
Scope (Rent Ready)
Built only for the unit turn lifecycle, from Notice to Vacate to move-in ready
Turn coordination (Competitor)
Track a unit as make-ready. Scheduling, sequencing and vendor dispatch stay manual
Turn coordination (Rent Ready)
Notice to Vacate starts the turn. Rent Ready schedules every trade in order and rebooks no-shows
Vendor sourcing (Competitor)
No vendor network. You find, vet and negotiate with every vendor yourself
Vendor sourcing (Rent Ready)
Your vendors first, with vetted backup from the Rent Ready network
Vendor pay (Competitor)
Pay vendors through AP on your normal cycle
Vendor pay (Rent Ready)
Rent Ready pays every vendor. Vendors can get paid weekly while you pay on your terms
Quality control (Competitor)
No turn-specific quality checks. Inspections are generic
Quality control (Rent Ready)
Checklists per trade and before and after photos on every job, with quality checks by the operations team
Turn cost visibility (Competitor)
Costs land in the general ledger after the fact
Turn cost visibility (Rent Ready)
Cost per turn by trade and property, while the turn is open
Working together (Competitor)
Owns the property record, the resident and the ledger
Working together (Rent Ready)
Runs the turn and hands status back. Native for Yardi, RealPage and Entrata. Connects to AppFolio by API, file drop or FTP
9,000+ units outsourced
“They do it better than we can. They have better tools, and because of their singular focus, a better cost structure than we do.”
Bill Green
CEO
Ginkgo Residential · 56 Southeast Communities
No. AppFolio is your property management system and stays your system of record for units, residents, leases and accounting. Rent Ready runs the turn between move-out and move-in ready, then passes status back. Operators run both.
Not natively. Rent Ready has native integrations with Yardi, RealPage and Entrata. For AppFolio and other systems, Rent Ready connects through APIs, file drops or FTP. Talk to us about your setup.
Because tracking a turn and running one are different jobs. AppFolio will tell you a unit is in make-ready. It will not find a backup painter, sequence trades so the punch crew isn't waiting on the cleaners, check the work with photos or get the vendor paid this week. That coordination is where turn days and turn costs come from.
Ginkgo cut 10+ days off every turn across 9,000+ units. STYL saves 5 hours per week per site across 2,045 turns. And because every change order goes to the property for approval before the work happens, about 1 in 4 vendor change orders are declined instead of landing on the invoice.
Yes. Your vendors come onto the platform with the same scheduling, photo checklists and pay as network vendors, under one certificate of insurance. Nobody has to change vendors.
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