Buildium Alternative for Portfolios Under 100 Units
Buildium is genuinely good software — for property management companies. Its accounting depth, trust accounting, and 1099 workflows are built for hundreds of doors and a back office. That power comes at $62/month minimum plus per-transaction fees (EFT charges, e-signature fees) that stack up.
If you're an independent landlord — or a small PM shop closing the month for a handful of owners — with 5–100 units, you're paying for machinery you'll never turn on. LetsGoLandlord covers the workflows you actually run — leases, rent, maintenance, renewals, owner close-outs, taxes — with AI doing the data entry, at a fraction of the monthly cost.
LetsGoLandlord
from $15/mo
5 units on Solo · 20 on Growth ($39/mo) · 14-day free trial
Buildium
from $62/mo
Essential plan, plus per-transaction fees (e.g. EFT, e-sign)
Competitor prices as of August 2026, per their published pricing — always check their current page.
Feature by feature, honestly
| Feature | LetsGoLandlord | Buildium |
|---|---|---|
| AI reads your lease PDFs and builds your rent roll | Yes — upload leases, review what the AI found, done | No — manual data entry or CSV templates |
| Bank-deposit matching (CSV import + live bank feeds) | Yes — deposits match tenants automatically, partial payments included | Varies — typically manual reconciliation |
| Renewal autopilot (draft, generate, send at 90 days) | Yes — with an AI wizard that takes plain-English changes | Reminders at best — check their current docs |
| Maintenance requests without tenant logins | Yes — magic link per unit, photos included, AI triage | Usually requires tenant accounts |
| Online rent collection (tenant ACH) | Yes — ACH + card with tenant autopay, free for landlords; tenants pay processing at cost (ACH 0.8% capped at $4.95). Free P2P lane (Zelle/Venmo) with auto reconciliation too | Yes (typically with per-transaction fees) |
| Monthly owner report written for you | Yes — your numbers, narrated by AI | Report exports — you write the narrative |
| Free read-only accountant login | Yes — free on every plan, lands on a dedicated Taxes page | Varies — often per-seat pricing; check their current docs |
| Month-end owner close-out & statement PDFs | Yes — guided close, frozen statements, emailed per owner | Yes — full owner draws with trust accounting |
| Priced for independent landlords | Yes — $15 to $99/mo covers 5 to 100 units | Built for PM companies; per-transaction fees add up |
Who should stay with Buildium
- •You hold client funds in a trust account under state broker rules — trust accounting with three-way reconciliation is Buildium's home turf and we don't do it.
- •You need full 1099 e-filing and CAM reconciliation workflows.
- •You have 200+ doors and a staff — their depth pays for itself at that scale.
Switching is an afternoon, not a project
Export your rent roll and transactions from Buildium to CSV, import here, and review what the matcher reconciled. Most sub-100-unit portfolios are fully moved in under an hour.
Frequently asked questions
How much cheaper is LetsGoLandlord than Buildium?
Buildium's Essential plan is $62/month plus per-transaction fees (prices as of August 2026). LetsGoLandlord runs $15–$99/month for 5–100 units and charges the landlord nothing per transaction — online rent collection is included, and the tenant's processing cost is passed through at cost rather than marked up.
Does LetsGoLandlord do trust accounting?
Trust accounting in the escrow sense — no, and if your state requires it for client funds, Buildium is the right call. What we do have: per-owner month-end close-outs (collected − expenses − your management fee, matched payments only), owner statement PDFs emailed each month, and bank-feed walls that keep one owner's deposits from ever being matched to another owner's tenants.
Can LetsGoLandlord handle 100 units?
Yes. The Portfolio plan covers 100 units, and Scale covers 300. AI lease import means onboarding 100 units is an afternoon, not a quarter.
What about owner reporting?
Every month the AI writes a plain-English owner report from your real numbers — collections, occupancy, delinquencies, what needs attention. Owner groups with per-owner reporting are supported.
See your rent roll build itself
14-day free trial. Every feature. No credit card.
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