Documenting Unit Layouts (Beds, Baths, SqFt)

When adding a unit to a property, you are presented with layout fields: Bedrooms, Bathrooms, and Square Area.

While these fields are technically optional, leaving them blank is a massive missed opportunity for streamlining your future operations.

1. Faster Marketing and Syndication

When a tenant moves out, your unit's status flips to Vacant. If you plan to use Landager's upcoming Listing Syndication feature to push the vacancy to rental websites (like Zillow or Apartments.com), those platforms require exact layout data.

If you skip entering the bedrooms and square footage during your initial account setup, you will be forced to hunt down old floor plans and manually type that data every single time the unit turns over.

Enter the layout once today, and next year's marketing takes three clicks.

2. Accurate Comparison Metrics

As your portfolio grows, understanding your price-per-square-foot becomes a crucial metric for evaluating performance.

If you own three 2-bedroom units across different buildings, but one is generating $100 less per month, you need context. If the underperforming unit is 300 square feet smaller, the lower rent is justified. Without square footage data stored natively in Landager, you are forced to run these comparisons blindly.

3. Maintenance Quoting

When you Create a Maintenance Request for a specific unit involving flooring replacement or painting, vendors often need the square footage to provide an accurate estimate.

If the square area is already documented in the Unit Detail view, you can instantly pull that number and supply it to the contractor through your Vendor Directory without having to drive to the property with a tape measure.

Best Practices for Data Entry

• Bathrooms: Use decimals for half-baths. A house with two full bathrooms and one half-bathroom should be entered as 2.5.
• Bedrooms: Only count rooms that legally qualify as bedrooms in your jurisdiction (typically requiring a closet and an egress window). Do not count living rooms or unfinished basements.
• Square Area: Use the universally accepted metric for your region (Square Feet in the US/Canada, Square Meters elsewhere).

If you skipped this data during your initial setup, you can always go back and update it by Editing the Unit Details.