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A property management account is a more valuable target than it looks. A manager's login can read every lease in a portfolio, message every resident, and touch payment operations. A resident's login holds their payment methods, their documents, and their home address. A stolen password shouldn't be enough to get either one.
That's why multi-factor authentication in Talvi is mandatory for every account — residents, managers, and staff alike. Not a checkbox in settings, not an enterprise upsell. Everyone.
Why we didn't make it optional
The industry pattern is to offer MFA and let adoption hover somewhere south of a third of users — and attackers know exactly which two-thirds to go after. Optional security features protect the people who least need protecting. The uncomfortable truth is that an opt-in second factor is mostly a compliance line item.
Security that depends on every user making the diligent choice isn't a property of the system. It's a hope.
So we made the diligent choice the only choice. Every new Talvi account enrolls a second factor during onboarding, and every sign-in verifies it before the account can see or do anything that matters.
Designed to not feel like a tax
Mandatory security only works if it's fast. Enrollment takes under a minute with any standard authenticator app, and day-to-day sign-ins stay out of the way on trusted devices. The rule we hold ourselves to: the second factor should cost a returning user seconds, and cost an attacker the whole attempt.
Part of a larger posture
MFA is one layer. Underneath it, Talvi scopes every team member's access to their buildings with role-based permissions, records security-relevant account actions to an append-only history, and keeps the workflows that carry money and legal documents — payments, screening, e-signature — on purpose-built, audited paths. We'll write more about those layers here as the blog grows.
If you're evaluating property software and security is part of your checklist, we're glad — it should be. Request a demo and bring your hardest questions.