Units inside a property
Units inside a property
A property is the building or plot. Units are the rentable subdivisions inside it — apartment 3A, suite 12, parking spot 4, shop 1.
You don't have to use units. A single-family house or a piece of land can be modelled as just a property with no units, and a lease attaches directly to the property.
But for an apartment building, an office floor, or a multi-tenant commercial block, units let you:
- Keep the rent, status (vacant/occupied/under maintenance) and floor of each unit separately
- Sign a lease against a specific unit
- Track which units are vacant and which are bringing in income
Adding units
On the property edit page, scroll to the Units tab and click New unit. Fill in:
- Unit number — your label, e.g.
3A,Suite 12,Shop 1. - Type — apartment, office, shop, parking, storage, other.
- Floor, bedrooms, bathrooms, area — same as the parent property.
- Status — vacant, occupied, under maintenance, retired.
- Expected rent — the monthly rent you'd ask for this unit (used to calculate occupancy / yield reports).
- Description — free text.
Working with leases
When you sign a lease, you pick the property and optionally the unit. If the property has units the system encourages you to pick one; if it has no units the lease attaches at the property level.
A unit can have at most one active lease at a time. The system warns you if you try to sign a second active lease on a unit that's already occupied — you can override the warning if you're ending the previous lease at the same time.