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7 articles, all published in August 2026. Where to start is below; the rest follow, newest first.
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A Tenancy Is a Schedule of Things That Have Not Happened Yet
An accounting system records what happened. A lease is a set of obligations that have not happened — twelve invoices, four cheque presentations, a renewal, a deposit. The gap between those two statements is where property businesses lose money quietly.
Property management9 min read
Odoo's Rental App Will Not Run a Tenancy, and the Reason Is in the First Field
Odoo Rental rents a product by the hour and takes it back into stock. A tenancy has no return, no stock, a term measured in years and money that is not yours. What Odoo genuinely gives a property business, and what has to be built on top.
27 August 2026ReadProperty management11 min read
A Tenancy Is a Schedule of Things That Have Not Happened Yet
An accounting system records what happened. A lease is a set of obligations that have not happened — twelve invoices, four cheque presentations, a renewal, a deposit. The gap between those two statements is where property businesses lose money quietly.
27 August 2026ReadProperty management8 min read
A Spreadsheet Agrees With Whatever Is Typed Into It
Nobody replaces the spreadsheet because it broke. It never breaks. It agrees, every time, with whatever the last person entered — and four specific thresholds turn that agreeableness from a convenience into the reason nobody trusts the numbers.
26 August 2026ReadProperty management9 min read
The Money in Your Account Is Not Your Money
A managing agent collects rent that belongs to somebody else, spends some of it on his behalf, keeps a fee, and owes the rest. Almost every dispute in this business comes from one of those four numbers being produced by a person rather than by a system.
26 August 2026ReadProperty management9 min read
The Cheque in the Drawer Is Not an Asset Until Somebody Walks It to the Bank
A year's rent arrives as a stack of paper written months before it is due. That makes collection a custody and calendar problem before it is ever an accounting one, and almost every property system in this market gets the accounting half wrong in the same way.
26 August 2026ReadProperty management9 min read
By the Time You Can Prove It, the Tenant Has Been There Four Months
Arrears is not a number, it is a clock, and the clock only counts where there is dated evidence. The decisions that determine whether you can recover in month five were made in week one and month two, by people who were not thinking about a case.
26 August 2026ReadProperty management9 min read
A Service Charge Budget Is a Promise to Spend Other People's Money in a Particular Way
A building's budget is approved once, invoiced to hundreds of owners by entitlement, collected imperfectly, and spent by a contractor who does not see the collection rate. Four of those five steps are usually in different systems.
26 August 2026ReadAfter the reading
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