r/appfolio

I’ve spent years on the operations side of property management, primarily maintenance, work orders, vendors, invoicing and portfolio-level workflow.
Over time I’ve built out processes and automation around AppFolio + email to reduce things like work-order backlog, repetitive follow-ups, vendor routing, aging WOs and manual admin work.
I’m considering taking on a few property managers who already use AppFolio but feel like their maintenance operation is still way too manual.
Not trying to sell software. I’d look at how your current operation actually works, identify the bottlenecks, and help clean up or automate what makes sense.
If anyone here is dealing with AppFolio maintenance headaches, I’d actually be interested in hearing what your biggest problem is.
Happy to answer questions here too.

My accountant uses ADP currently for our payroll. For years we have put into Appfolio the payables and JEs from the accountant after every pay period. She is now retiring and I will be handling the payroll now and I am looking for the simplest solution for this. We are down to only 2 employees on payroll, everyone else is 1099. We also do a Simple IRA contribution. Any recommendations for a low cost solution that might work well with Appfolio?