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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MRI Residential Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMRI Software offers residential management for the multifamily real estate marketing. Capabilities include leasing workflow, prospect management, resident management, billing, facility maintenance, and performance management. The company was founded in 1971 and offers several residential and commercial property and investment management solutions.N/A

    Yardi Voyager

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AYardi Voyager provides residential and commercial property management software. Capabilities include integrated accounting, lease renewal workflow, and modules for multi-family, senior, and affordable housing, as well as retail, office and industrial units. The company was founded in 1984 and has 4,000 employees and 35 offices around the world.N/A
    Pricing
    MRI Residential ManagementYardi Voyager
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    MRI Residential ManagementYardi Voyager
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MRI Residential ManagementYardi Voyager
    Considered Both Products
    MRI Software
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    Yardi
    Chose Yardi Voyager
    Yardi is more user-friendly, dynamic, and comprehensive than other similar products in the real estate space. While there is some ramp-up time to learn the system, Yardi is pretty intuitive and literal, which removes much of the confusion that other systems offer. Voyager also …
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    Chose Yardi Voyager
    Voyager competes quite nicely in terms of features and price with MRI. In retrospect, MRI has a much more flexible reporting module and allows direct access to your data in a much easier fashion.
    Incentivized
    Chose Yardi Voyager
    Financials are best in MRI. One Site is best for leasing and intuitiveness, Yardi is night and day the best facilities program though.
    Incentivized
    Chose Yardi Voyager
    If use 1 to 10 as scale: Yardi is 10, MRI 5, Quickbook 3, Skyline 1
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    MRI Residential ManagementYardi Voyager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.0
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    Usability
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    7.3
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    Support Rating
    1.0
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    7.5
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    User Testimonials
    MRI Residential ManagementYardi Voyager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MRI Software
    Well suited scenario - MRI Residential is obviously good for residential real estate. It doesn't make sense to just plug in industrial, hotel or commercial real estate management as those are different types of products. Those who have access to the cloud can easily download information off site to do an analysis. Less appropriate - Information may need to be scrubbed. For instance, there could be operating statements that are inputted incorrectly because items are miscoded.
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    Yardi
    Yardi Voyager is well suited for any management company in the multifamily or commercial space and is a worthwhile competitor to other options in the space - MRI Software, Realpage, Resite, etc. For those med-large enterprises that value an intuitive and straightforward accounting and leasing system, and also work with other vendors that need to integrate with their ERP system, this is a great option. There is a large ramp-up time, requiring many company resources, and licensing is quite expensive, so this solution may not be for those companies with a small budget or personnel resources.
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    Pros
    MRI Software
    • Reporting
    • Tracking Data
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    Yardi
    • Yardi Property Management particularly excels at creating a system where it is easy to leave feedback for property managers because the data is available up front.
    • Yardi is also a useful tool at integrating property management across the entire platform. It can be used for asset management as well even for the most nitty gritty details.
    • It is also convenient to edit expenses inputted by the accounting department and managing those expenses forward for future budgeting.
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    Cons
    MRI Software
    • Sometimes the data that is outputted is not consistent (back end of the database is constantly being updated), have to follow up with our client relationship manager
    • Sometimes very rigid
    • Incremental cost to add on information (if we want MRI to host certain documents in the cloud)
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    Yardi
    • In my experience there's a fairly steep learning curve for a new user to be able to navigate the system
    • While there's diverse functionality, many items seem buried in menus or obscure places, particularly the first time you're trying to find them
    • Getting used to the refresh functionality in some parts of the system can be challenging if you're used to a system that automatically updates when new filters are applied
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    Likelihood to Renew
    MRI Software
    No answers on this topic
    Yardi
    We have invested 5 years of setup, implementation and training on Voyager. It's doing a very good job for us and I feel we've only scratched the surface of its capabilities. Yardi support has been very responsive with very little down time. The training materials are great from Client Central
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    Usability
    MRI Software
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    Yardi
    I'm coming from the perspective of a fairly tech-adept person, so I didn't find the system too hard to learn. That said, I do feel some of the buried menus and the system's own internal search feature could use some improvement, but I have that feeling about the vast majority of CRMs I've ever used. There may be a little bit of a struggle to onboard/train up someone who isn't used to this sort of system, but once up and going it should be smooth sailing.
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    Support Rating
    MRI Software
    They have a terrible help center and the training tools and videos are useless and not helpful. They need to invest in better training tools and modules for people to refer to. Especially when there is no designated training person within a company to teach newcomers how to use it.
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    Yardi
    The local office is very knowledgeable, however recently it seems that Yardi has begun to route calls offshore and the knowledge base there does not seem to be as strong as the USA based support centers. All customizations are done by offshore personnel, which presents issues in terms of the language barrier and time zone differences.
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    Implementation Rating
    MRI Software
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    Yardi
    If you are converting from another system, grouping your properties by subsidy type seemed to help us. We were able to focus on a half dozen properties at a time, rather than the entire portfolio.
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    Alternatives Considered
    MRI Software
    We had a proprietary access database, but wanted to utilize MRI because of support (annual fee is in the tens of thousands versus a hundred thousand plus build out). The user interface is pretty straight forward, and there is available training as well. Updates are done online via the SAAS website so we don't have to worry about any coding issues here in house.
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    Yardi
    Onesite was broken, a lot. Yardi Voyager has been a much more stable platform. We have been operational for 3 years now and I cannot say that we have had any software downtime in 3 Years. But with Onesite, it was common to be down at least once a month for something that was not working correctly.
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    Return on Investment
    MRI Software
    • Helps track income
    • Helps with on-time billing
    • Keeps us on budget with projects
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    Yardi
    • We initially moved to Yardi from paper ledgers. This had a tremendous time-saving effect.
    • Product was confusing and required training for some of our older staff members.
    • Clients that used the product were initially hesitant to pay for the added cost, but with time were able to see the benefit to their software.
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