Properties & Units

Properties and units are the foundation of everything in TenantBuddy. They describe the buildings you manage and the individual spaces inside them that tenants actually rent.

What properties and units are

A property is a building or address you manage: a house, a duplex, an apartment block, or a commercial building. A unit is an individual rentable space inside that property: an apartment, a suite, a storefront, or a parking stall.

Even a single-family home is modeled as one property containing one unit. That keeps the structure consistent, so the same workflow scales from a single door to hundreds without changing how you work.

A single-family home is one property with one unit

Don't overthink it. When you manage a standalone house, you create one property for the address and one unit inside it. The lease, tenants, and invoices all attach to that unit, exactly as they would in a large building.

Creating a property

Go to Rentals → Properties and choose Add Property. You'll capture:

  • Address & details — the street address and identifying information for the building.
  • Property type — residential, commercial, mixed-use, and so on. You can manage the available types under Settings → Property Types .
  • Status — such as active, vacant, or under renovation, so you always know what state a building is in at a glance.

Adding units

Once the property exists, add the spaces inside it. From the property page you can add units one at a time, or use Bulk Create to add many at once, which is ideal when you're onboarding an apartment building with dozens of similar suites. Bulk Edit lets you update shared details across many units together rather than opening each one.

Steps to create a property and its units

  1. Go to Rentals → Properties and choose Add Property.
  2. Enter the address, choose the property type, set the status, and save.
  3. From the property page, add your first unit, or choose Bulk Create to add a batch of units in one step.
  4. Open a unit to set its details, such as bedrooms, bathrooms, size, and rent expectations.
  5. Assign features and amenities to each unit (see below).

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The Properties list in TenantBuddy showing each property with its unit count, occupancy, and status.

Features & amenities

Units can carry features and amenities: in-suite laundry, parking, air conditioning, a balcony, and so on. These are drawn from a shared library you maintain under Settings → Features & Amenities , so the same options stay consistent across every property. Assign them to a unit from the unit's detail view, and they'll be available to surface on listings and lead forms.

The property detail view

Opening a property gives you a tabbed view that gathers everything about that building in one place:

  • Details — the address, type, status, and core information.
  • Units — every unit in the property, with occupancy and rent at a glance.
  • Value history — track the property's value over time for your records.
  • Analytics — performance insights for the building.

You can also attach documents to a property (purchase paperwork, insurance, inspection reports) so everything related to that building stays together.

Set up properties before tenants and leases

Because a lease connects a unit to its tenants, it pays to have your properties and units in place first. Once they exist, creating leases and assigning tenants is quick.

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