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Multi-family property management softwareThe rent roll you know. The flexibility you don't.

Direct gives you the year rent-roll matrix, arrears discipline and deposit tracking you expect — and lets any vacant unit earn nightly income until the next lease signs, without a second system.

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Is this for you?

A good fit if
  • You want the rent roll, arrears and deposits you already expect, plus nightly income on vacant units
  • Vacancy between leases is a real cost you would rather offset than absorb
  • You would like one ledger behind the owner statement instead of two systems reconciled by hand
Look elsewhere if
  • You are a pure long-term landlord with no interest in short stays — a dedicated rent-roll tool will be a closer fit
  • You need deep US-specific compliance such as affordable-housing certification workflows
  • Your portfolio is large enough that you have already built integrations you would have to unpick

Your module mix

Subscribe to exactly these — nothing else to pay for. Your application arrives with this mix pre-selected, and your organisation is provisioned with it on approval.

Leasing
CORE FOR YOU

Tenancy onboarding that blocks the calendar, monthly invoicing, a Paid/Arrear/Due cell per tenancy per month, deposits posted to the ledger and refunded on move-out.

Caretaking
CORE FOR YOU

Maintenance work orders with SLAs, move-out inspections, building staff and assets.

Short Term Rentals
RECOMMENDED

A vacant furnished unit is one flag away from nightly income on your own booking site — and tenancy onboarding automatically refuses if bookings conflict.

Property Sales
OPTIONAL

Dispositions and owner resales through your own pipeline.

Fitouts
OPTIONAL

Turn-key furnishing between tenancies, quoted and invoiced.

This is the actual product

Real screenshots from a live portfolio — the screens your team would work in every day.

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The year rent roll
The year rent roll

Every tenancy × every month: paid, partial, arrear or due — with invoicing and payment capture inline. The report your rent team lives in.

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One ledger — the report your accountant asks for
One ledger — the report your accountant asks for

Rent, booking payments, pool revenue splits, deposits and commissions post to the same books. Statements are views, not exports.

Direct vs AppFolio / Buildium-class suites

Vacancy earns
WITH DIRECT

LT and ST on one calendar per unit — structurally impossible to double-book a leased unit.

ELSEWHERE

STR income means a second platform and manual calendar blocking.

Pay per unit, per module
WITH DIRECT

A 40-unit building doesn't pay for a 4,000-unit suite.

ELSEWHERE

All-in pricing built for someone else's portfolio.

Books that close
WITH DIRECT

Every rupee, dollar or euro posts to one ledger with FX snapshots — statements are views, not exports.

ELSEWHERE

Rent in the PMS, everything else in QuickBooks.

Year rent-roll matrix per tenancy
Deposits in/out on the ledger automatically
Lease conflicts with bookings refused at the database

Guides for multi-family operators

Ontario tax

Municipal Accommodation Tax across Ontario

MAT is set city by city, and almost nothing about it is uniform — not the rate, not the stay length that triggers it, not how often you remit. Rates below are taken from each municipality's own published pages, not from an aggregator.

Ontario tax

HST/GST on Ontario rental income

Long-term residential rent is exempt from HST. Commercial rent is taxable. Short-term stays under 30 days are treated as a commercial activity by the CRA — and the $30,000 small-supplier threshold combines every property you operate, not just one.

Ontario compliance

The Ontario Standard Lease, explained

Ontario mandates a specific government template — form 2229E — for most new residential tenancies. Its terms can't be overridden by anything a landlord writes into a side agreement.

Ontario compliance

Ontario LTB N-forms: which one applies

The Landlord and Tenant Board's N-series covers everything from a rent increase to ending a tenancy for renovation — and using the wrong one is a common, avoidable way to lose at the Board.

Ontario compliance

LTB Form N4: non-payment of rent

The most-served notice in Ontario, and the one most often served wrong — usually by miscounting the notice period or filing the L1 too early.

Ontario compliance

LTB Form N12: landlord or purchaser needs the unit

The form for when a landlord, a purchaser, or an immediate family member genuinely needs the unit — and the one the Board scrutinises hardest, because it is the one most often used as a pretext.

Ontario compliance

LTB Form N13: demolition, conversion or major repairs

The longest notice in the N-series, for work extensive enough to genuinely require an empty unit — with a right of return that defeats the reason most landlords are tempted to use it.

Ontario compliance

LTB Form N1: increasing the rent

Ontario's guideline is 2.1% for 2026 and 1.9% for 2027 — but the exemption for buildings first occupied after November 2018 matters more to a growing portfolio than the rate does.

Ontario compliance

LTB Form N9: the tenant's notice to end a tenancy

The only N-form the tenant serves. Landlords search for it constantly — usually because they have been handed one, or because they are about to make the mistake of sending one.

Multi-line portfolio

Why the best operators don't pick one business line

Long-term leasing, short-term stays, sales, caretaking and fit-outs get sold as five different software categories. Operationally, they're one registry with five ways to earn from it.

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