About Apartment Auditor
Tired of losing part or all of your Apartment Rental Deposit when you move? This free app provides a methodical and organized approach for documenting features & defects that you uncover as you walk through an apartment that you're considering on renting. Capture data using pick lists and your phone or tablet's camera for each feature (or flaw) that you uncover during your walk through. Apartment Auditor is designed for:
1) Anyone shopping for a new home or apartment, or comparing rental properties.
2) Real Estate Agents & Brokers who want to document a repair list for their clients prior to placing a home on the market.
3) Property managers who desire to document needed repairs for their maintenance staff.
Once you've completed your apartment audit, you can create on-screen reports for free, or purchase tokens through Google In-App-Purchases to create printable reports in: PDF, Plain Text, and Excel formats. These Printable Reports cost you less than the price of a cup of coffee at McDonald's. Reports can be created on-the-spot and emailed to anyone who has a stake in ensuring that you get the best value in your rental decision (e.g. yourself, your spouse / roommate / partner, the landlord, your parents, etc.).
Using the reports, you can then have an intelligent, point-in-fact conversation and negotiation with your landlord on rent rate or feature trade-offs, in the event you uncover a "less-than-perfect" apartment.
Even if you find yourself in the situation of having only a single choice for an apartment (due to limited supply or great demand), you can still use Apartment Auditor to capture any defects found in an apartment. This way you have date & time stamped, documented proof of the condition of your apartment BEFORE you moved in. Email your findings to your landlord and eliminate the possibility of being charged for apartment repairs that were pre-existing and already present before you moved in.
KEY FEATURES OF APARTMENT AUDITOR:
1) Full support for both English and Spanish speaking users.
2) It's Free to use and create On-Screen reports! Or you can choose to purchase a few In-app-Tokens and create Printable Reports that can be emailed, transferred to your PC, or stored in the cloud.
3) It provides an easy, organized, and proven approach for documenting the condition of your apartment.
4) The On-board help screens are backed up with over 20 in-depth detailed training videos on YouTube.
5) It even allows Tablets and Phones which only have a front-facing camera (i.e. a camera that faces the user), to easily take pictures of an apartment, rooms and features & defects.
6) Report translation allows you can conduct your apartment audit in Spanish, then automatically translate the reports into English (or visa-verse).
7) Printable Reports can be created in: PDF, Excel compatible, and plain Text formats with photo attachments. On-Screen Reports are free!
8) Digital Photos in the PDF reports, can be red-lined and marked up using the free Adobe PDF viewer.
9) You can track the “repair status” of a defect and create reports showing repair history such as when a defect was identified, repaired by a contractor, inspected, and accepted.
10) It's Proven! The author & publisher rented apartments as a student while attending university. He's now a landlord and sincerely believes that Renters AND Landlords both “win” when the conditions of an apartment are documented and well understood by all parties. Everyone should be fully aware of the key features, and flaws, found in an apartment before signing the lease agreement.
NOTE!
1) Supported on Android phones and tablets running version 3.x and later and Kindle Fire HD tablets.
2) Support for Korean, Japanese, Chinese, as well as German, French, and Portuguese to be added Q4/2014.
3) Editions for Houses, Dorms, Mobile Homes and Town Houses will be released in Q3 of 2014.
4) iOS and Windows Phone 8 Editions will be released in Q3/2014.
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