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Monthly report · October 2026

Property management for small landlords, October 2026: 0 open gaps — 0 closed, 0 opened.

As the catalog read it in October 2026 · written Nov 1, 2026. This report does not change after it is written. September 2026 →

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Forge’s own counts and the quoted claims with their sources are CC BY 4.0 — cite as Ambera Forge, Property management for small landlords, October 2026. Carried market-size figures are their publishers’ and are not in the file.

What was read

7 companies placed; 2 read during October 2026.

Gaps closed and opened

2 themes were raised about two or more of 7 read companies; 0 share no word with anything a company declares. Against the previous month: 0 gaps opened and 0 closed (0 now share a word with a declared capability, 0 no longer raised about two companies). Themes are compared by their words, so a theme the reading reworded counts as one closed and one opened.

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Now answered in the declared names · 0
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No longer raised about two companies · 0
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  • ● Billing, fees and cancellationraised about 7 of 7
  • ● Free tier, trial and paywalled featuresraised about 3 of 7

Who entered

0 companies placed; 1 product sighted by a search and not yet read (Tenby).

  • Tenby — sighted Oct 5, 2026 · source

Pricing moves

7 of 7 read companies have a pricing entry on record; 1 pricing change recorded across 1 company this month.

  • Baselane [FACT] Oct 26, 2026 · 1 change this monthBaselane introduced Same Day ACH payments with a 1% fee (max $15) for next business day settlement. Previously, standard ACH took 3-5 business days with no faster option. source
  • Avail [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Baseline: Avail offers two tiers — free 'Unlimited' (unlimited units, core features) and 'Unlimited Plus' at $9 per unit per month, which adds waived ACH fees, customizable leases, and premium support. source
  • TurboTenant [FACT] Sep 30, 2026TurboTenant's current pricing structure is a Free plan ($0, unlimited units) plus two paid, annual-only tiers: Essentials at $149/year (~$12.42/mo) and Pro at $199/year (~$16.58/mo). source
  • RentRedi [FACT] Sep 30, 2026RentRedi's official pricing page structure offers three billing-cycle plans for the same feature set: Monthly at $29.95/month, 6-Month at $20/month, and Annual at $12/month, with no additional per-unit, tenant, teammate, or support charges on any plan. source
  • Buildium [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Buildium's current pricing page lists three tiers: Essential 'starting at' $62/month, Growth at $192/month, and Premium at $400/month, with per-transaction fees on incoming EFT, eSignatures, and tenant screening layered on top (e.g., Essential incoming EFT is $2.35/transaction and eSignature is $5/document, dropping on higher tiers). source
  • Fees passed to tenants [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Across major rent-payment platforms, ACH fees passed to tenants typically range $1–$3 per transaction (e.g. TurboTenant $2, TenantCloud $1.50–$1.95 tiered, RentRedi $1, AppFolio $2.49), while tenant-paid card fees run roughly 2.75%–3.5% plus sometimes a flat fee. source
  • Landlords with one to ten units [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Third-party comparison content reports Innago as a fully free option best suited for landlords with one to two properties, while RentPost starts at $29/month plus $1 per unit and Landlord Studio starts at $12/month for three units. source

What users raised

14 themes raised by users; the most raised: Billing, fees and cancellation (7 of 7), Free tier, trial and paywalled features (3 of 7), Customer support (1 of 7).

  • Billing, fees and cancellation 7/7
  • Free tier, trial and paywalled features 3/7
  • Customer support 1/7
  • Interface and design 1/7
  • Limited accounting depth on base plan 1/7
  • Limited full property-management workflows (leasing, maintenance) 1/7
  • Mobile apps 1/7
  • No listing/advertising tools for finding tenants 1/7
  • No tenant messaging (coming soon) 1/7
  • Not a traditional bank / no physical branches 1/7
  • Payment processing issues 1/7
  • Price increases 1/7
  • scalability concerns above 10 units 1/7
  • slow ACH payout times 1/7

Funding by quarter

0 rounds recorded across 2 read quarters; sums are floors per currency and per tag, never combined.

  • 2025-Q1not read
  • 2025-Q2not read
  • 2025-Q3not read
  • 2025-Q4not read
  • 2026-Q1not read
  • 2026-Q2not read
  • 2026-Q30 rounds
  • 2026-Q40 rounds

The ledger this month

3 observed claims recorded this month.

  • POSITIONING · 1
  • PRICING · 1
  • PRODUCT · 1

How big this market is, as its publishers state it

No market-size figure has been recorded for this level yet. Not read is not zero.

Research-house estimates for this sector, carried side by side under each house’s own name. Estimates of one market can differ several-fold; none is averaged, and none is Forge’s.

No publisher is named for this level yet, so there is nothing to read from. Publishers are authored in the taxonomy and arrive with a deploy.

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