How to add your first rental property in EstatesCheck
Add a rental property in EstatesCheck, confirm its units, and record the property details needed for your landlord workspace.
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How-to guides for landlords and tenants
Learn how to set up a rental property, invite tenants, manage leases, rent, maintenance, messages, documents, and optional AI access—or complete the same work from the tenant portal.
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Getting started
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Properties
How to manage rental properties and units
Find a property, review its operational overview and units, update its image, and manage its active status in EstatesCheck.
Read the guideHow to review property fines and violations
Review supported fines and violations attached to a rental property, understand their status, and keep follow-up work organized.
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Tenants and leases
How to invite and manage tenants
Invite a tenant, connect the tenant to the correct rental, review tenant details, and keep the relationship organized in EstatesCheck.
Read the guideHow to create, manage, and sign a lease
Create a guided lease, use saved templates and clauses, assign it to a tenant, and follow the review and signing workflow.
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Rent and payments
How to track rent payments and transactions
Use the landlord transaction workspace to review rent activity, filter records, understand payment status, and keep an accurate rental ledger.
Read the guideHow to schedule and confirm a rent pickup
Set landlord pickup availability, review a tenant’s requested appointment, and confirm the rent pickup details in EstatesCheck.
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Operations
How to create and manage maintenance requests
Create a landlord maintenance request, triage tenant issues, update workflow status, and keep the repair history organized.
Read the guideHow to message tenants and manage conversations
Start a tenant conversation, find existing threads, send a clear message, and keep rental communication organized in EstatesCheck.
Read the guideHow to upload and organize rental documents
Upload a rental document, attach it to the correct property, find it in the landlord library, and understand tenant document access.
Read the guideHow to manage the property calendar
Create a calendar event, filter property work, manage rent pickup availability, and keep important rental dates visible.
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Account and integrations
How to connect and control AI access
Connect an optional AI client to EstatesCheck, review the authorization, manage permissions in the AI Control Center, and disconnect access.
Read the guideHow to manage your account, profile, and password
Sign in securely, update landlord profile details, change account settings, and request a password reset when needed.
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Tenant portal
How to use the EstatesCheck tenant portal
Accept access to the tenant portal, review the tenant dashboard, update your profile, and find rent, maintenance, messages, and documents.
Read the guideHow tenants review rent and payment activity
Review rent status, inspect payment history, and request an available rent pickup time from the EstatesCheck tenant portal.
Read the guideHow tenants submit and track a maintenance request
Report a rental maintenance issue, describe its urgency, add useful evidence, and follow the request status in the tenant portal.
Read the guideHow tenants use messages and shared documents
Message your landlord, follow an existing conversation, and review rental documents shared through the EstatesCheck tenant portal.
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