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Walk into the office of almost any property management company and you'll find the same setup: one tool for collecting rent, another for listings, a shared inbox for resident requests, a spreadsheet for move-outs, and a filing cabinet — sometimes literal — for leases. Each tool works, more or less. What doesn't work is the space between them.
A resident submits a repair request by email. Someone copies it into a work-order tracker. The vendor invoices by PDF. The unit's history lives nowhere, so when the next leak shows up, nobody remembers that the same pipe failed eighteen months ago. Multiply that by every payment, application, lease renewal, and move-out across a portfolio, and the real product of a property team's day becomes retyping information from one system into another.
One record, from listing to move-out
Talvi is built around a single idea: every event in a building belongs to one shared record. The listing, the application, the screening report, the signed lease, every rent payment, every repair, and the eventual move-out all attach to the same unit and the same resident. When a resident taps "Submit repair" in the Talvi app, the work order lands on the manager's board seconds later — with the unit, the resident, the photos, and the unit's full history already attached.
- Rent & payments — ACH, debit, and credit with autopay, roommate splits, deposits, and late notices on one ledger per unit.
- Leasing & applications — public building pages, an application pipeline, screening and identity checks, and e-signature without leaving the platform.
- Maintenance — resident requests, work orders, vendor assignment, and scheduling that keep photos and history with the unit.
- Residents — a portal and mobile app for paying rent, tracking repairs, messaging the team, and signing documents.
- Operations — buildings, units, team roles and permissions, turnovers, and reporting under one roof.
Software both sides actually want to use
Legacy property software was built for back offices, and it shows — residents get a clunky payment portal at best, and managers get screens that look like tax software. We think the bar should be the modern consumer apps everyone already uses.
Happy residents and confident teams aren't competing goals. They're the same goal, seen from two sides of the same record.
That's why Talvi ships as one platform with two faces: a resident experience that feels like the best apps on your phone, and a management portal that gives teams a live picture of every building — rent collected, occupancy, open work orders, and applications in review — without chasing a single detail across tools.
What's next
We're working with property teams now, and this blog is where we'll write about what we ship and what we learn along the way. If you manage buildings and want to see Talvi on your own portfolio, request a demo — we'd love to show you around.