RQ200 doesn't replace Buildium. Keep rent, leases, and accounting exactly where they are. It picks up where Buildium stops: the repair itself, the contractor doing it, and the proof it got done.
Buildium is solid software for the office side, and unlike some suites, it's genuinely available to smaller portfolios, with published pricing and no enterprise-style door minimum. Residents can submit requests with photos through the Resident Center, and you can turn those into work orders, assign a vendor, and track the bill.
But the work order is an office record, not the work itself. The status is whatever someone remembered to type. Your contractors don't live in Buildium. They get a phone call or a text, the scheduling happens in your ear, and the before/after evidence stays in someone's camera roll, if it exists at all.
So the workflow keeps you in the middle of every repair: the request comes in, you call the contractor, the contractor calls you back with questions, you call the tenant about access and timing. Three phone calls per job, and none of them are your actual job.
No API project, no consultant. When the founder sets you up, your Buildium maintenance requests start landing in your RQ200 request inbox, matched to the building and unit where possible. From there, one tap turns a request into a tracked job.
A one-time setup the founder does with you: minutes, and nothing inside Buildium changes.
Each one arrives in your RQ200 request inbox, matched to the building and unit where possible, nothing re-typed.
Assign a contractor from your phone. The job isn't done until it's closed with photo proof, timestamped and tied to the unit.
From there the RQ200 loop takes over: the contractor acknowledges the job, the work happens with photo and video updates, and they submit it for your review. The contractor arranges the visit with the tenant directly. You direct and approve instead of relaying calls.
On AppFolio instead, or comparing the two? RQ200 runs beside AppFolio the same way, and there's an honest AppFolio vs Buildium maintenance comparison if you're choosing between them.
No, and it doesn't try to. Rent, leases, accounting, and screening stay in Buildium. RQ200 is the operational layer beside it, where the maintenance work actually gets assigned, done, and proven.
No. It's a one-time, no-code connection the founder sets up with you: nothing to maintain, nothing inside Buildium changes, and nothing that can silently break your books.
Each request lands in your RQ200 request inbox, matched to the building and unit where possible, and anything that can't be matched is held for you to file with one tap, never lost. An honest note: our AppFolio connection has been running on real mail; the Buildium connection is newer. Early Buildium partners get it tuned to exactly how their mail arrives, with the founder watching the first week. That's part of what founding partnership means.
They get an invite and sign in to a phone view with their jobs, attaching photos when they finish. Push, email, or bell notifications, whatever they'll actually look at. Nobody sits through a training session.
RQ200 works on its own. Managers still running maintenance from texts and spreadsheets use it as their whole maintenance layer. Tenants report through the QR form instead of that connection.
Right now, nothing. We're taking 10 founding partners and building RQ200 with them, free. Unlimited buildings, jobs, users, and photo storage; the whole company, nothing held back. One day it will cost money. Founding partners get the first say in what fair looks like, and you'll never be charged by surprise.
RQ200 is taking 10 founding partners, free while we build it with you. The founder sets it up on your real buildings; every month you see exactly what it caught, proved, and saved.
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