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Keeping every lease, receipt and repair in one place

Agreements in a folder, payments in a chat thread, expenses in a notebook. Here is what a single record of your rental business looks like, and why it pays for itself at tax time.

· 6 min read

The cost of scattered records

Records spread across messages, spreadsheets and paper are not just untidy. They are slow to search when a tenant disputes a balance, easy to lose when a phone is replaced, and painful to assemble when the year ends and someone asks what the property earned.

Start with the lease

The lease is the record every other record refers back to: the rent, the dates, the deposit. Create it in the same place you bill from, have the tenant review and sign it electronically, and keep the signed copy beside the tenant it belongs to. When the term ends, renewing at a new rent should update the bills that follow without anything being retyped.

Put every payment and expense against a property

Income means little until it sits next to what the property cost. Log rent payments and property expenses against the property they belong to, and a monthly picture of each building appears without a separate spreadsheet.

End the year with a summary, not a search

If every payment and expense was recorded as it happened, the year-end summary is a download rather than a weekend. That is the real return on keeping one record: the work is spread across the year in seconds, instead of piled into its last week.

How BalayKu handles it

In BalayKu, leases are created, signed electronically by the tenant and stored with the tenant record. Rental income and property expenses are tracked against each property, with financial reports along the way and a year-end income and expense summary you can download as a PDF or CSV.

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