r/PropertyDevelopment

Hi everyone,
So I am a renter of a commercial property. Myself and a few others rent a large space in an old factory building. In order to cool down the space during the summer, we were encouraged during the move in discussions to purchase 3 ac units - so we did. The maintence person for the property is supposed to install them for us. We have had one installed for about a year, and we have been asking for months for them to come install a second one.

The leasing agent says now, that we have a transformer which can only run 30 vol, and since our ac units are respectively take up 10-11v, roughly 14000 each BTU, we can’t install a second one because the transformer couldn’t handle it. Also she says that the led lights overhead take up about 8 volts?? We are not electricians so we have no clue if this is valid or not. I looked into it and heard about the 20/80 rule, meaning we can’t use the transformer up to its limit. THEREFORE, she wants us to split the cost of upgrading a transformer for them which sounds like a crock of shit to me.

Proceeding from this being true, are commercial properties required to have transformers of a certain power level? It’s crazy we can only use one ac which doesn’t even do anything for the space, and then turn the lights on. I don’t know where else to ask this, if anyone knows any place versed on commercial development that would be great.

Ok so I'm a property manager and I have been using Beagle for PMs for a few months now. I figured that I would just share my personal experience here because I just keep seeing the same questions pop up to me across my Facebook groups and I also see them a lot on Reddit (next time i'm just gonna attach this post link). I just thought what's the best place to rather just drop it on?

To start with and give you some context, I manage approximately 120+ property units here in the US and we were running on spreadsheets and a couple of manual workflows. It was just a lot hectic and a lot of grunt work at the same time. We were just starting to look for solutions out there and of course we landed on a couple of them. They were second nature plus a few more.

Then there was also Beagle for PM. The name is quirky, right, because Beagle is a dog breed, that kind of also attracted me. I just booked a demo call with them and it was pretty good to see how painless it was to get started with Beagle. There was basically no real lift on our side and, to be honest, onboarding was also really simple. I can say this because we had it up running in less than 24 hours without even having to mess with our existing setup too much

The part that really actually caught my attention was the money side of it, like tenant legal liability, always said like one of those annoying cost center things you just deal with because you have to. When we got Beagle and also saw their dividend model, it actually started showing up as net operating income for us, which was kind of wild the first time I saw it. We are not spending money any more; we are actually making money per unit and it's almost like it has zero cost to the property managers. Of course Beagle makes their own money/revenues from their different programs for the residents but there's all in all no cost for the property managers

So yeah, that's been our experience as of now and it's nothing fancy. It's just very smooth overall and almost not annoying at all compared to what I expected. That's my experience.

Here from the community I would essentially also want to know: what are the existing software PMS software that you're using and how's it going for you?