Features, Additions and Service Patches in each Update of RentRight
Listed are Some of the many frequent changes and improvements to your software

09/15/99
  • Service updates
  • release 2.9.6
08/25/99
08/09/99
  • Feature: Improved RentRoll Report. Now you can customize the report yourself, by adding 3 income categories of your choice. For example, you could choose Rent, Section 8, and Late Fee. The Rent Roll Report would then show a total collected from each of these categories for the selected month. You can also now choose to display on this report, either square footage of each unit, or number of bedrooms.
  • release 2.8.6
08/05/99
  • Special Feature: New Rent History report! Shows total collected per month for each property. Nice summary of collections by property. The sums in each field are based on total collected toward charges within each month. Find it on the Building Financial Folder.
  • Feature: Now you can choose if you want future charges to show or not on invoices and/or Detailed Payment History. Just go to Options on the menu bar and choose "Show future charges" or not.
  • If you type in an incorrect date in the date paid field of the Income form it will be changed for you. For example, you can not type in the year 199.
  • Feature: Meter readings will now show on invoices.
  • Feature: Cut and paste will now work in data grids such as the Expense Form and Check Register.
  • release 2.8.5
07/29/99
  • Feature: You can now change the words zip code and social security throughout RentRight. If you use postal code for example, just go to File on the menu bar and choose International Settings. Type in "postal code" and the words zip code will be replaced on all screens in RentRight.
  • release 2.8.3
07/12/99
  • Feature: Detailed Payment History Report now can be run by Building/Owner/ and by multiple tenants at one time.
  • Feature:  RentRight now accepts long file names
  • release 2.8
05/18/99
  • Feature: New Net Income Ledger Report.
  • Feature: Added more detail to Security Deposit Report.
  • release 2.7.3
04/05/99
  • Extra Special Feature: Security! Set up RentRight users and specify access for each user to different forms.
  • Feature: Added name of Payee on the Building/Unit Expense report.
  • Feature: Ability to back up to multiple disks. (Span Floppies)
  • Feature: Now you can print the Chart of Accounts.
  • Feature: Added tenant phone numbers to Rent Roll Report.
  • release 2.7
04/27/99
  • Feature: Metered Utilities. Now you can track meter readings for multiple meters per tenant. Just enter the current meter reading, and the utility is calculated and a charge is added for the tenant.
  • Feature: You can now back up your data on multiple disks if needed.
  • release 2.6.12
04/19/99
  • RentRight will ask if you are sure, if you enter a duplicate check number in a checking account. This will prevent accidentally re-entering the same series of checks.
  • Feature: You can now print the entire check register, a portion of it  by a date range, or only uncleared checks.
  • release 2.6.9
04/05/99
  • The Reminder System was speeded up so that it will not take so long to run if you have many tenant records.
  • A beginning balance was added to the Tenant Payment History report.
  • Updates to F1 help screens.
  • Feature: Annual charges can now be added as recurring charges.
  • Much Requested Feature: The Vacancy Report is now a Vacancy Loss report and includes the total rent lost since the unit was vacant, as well as listing any new prospective tenants for this unit.(You must fill in a move out date for tenants in order for the report to be useful).
  • release 2.6.7
03/24/99
  • Feature: Added ability to print mailing labels for tenants using Bill To address rather than rental address, for managers of storage units.
  • Much Requested Feature: Summary Income Report now works by Owner. Now you can get the total money due to an owner!
  • Back up is now automatically Zipped so large amounts data can fit on a floppy.
  • Now you can download and install updates simply within RentRight, and Send your data to support at RentRight with one click. (Help on the Menu bar, choose Communicate with RentRight.
  • release 2.6.3
03/18/99
  • Special Feature: Now you may type in a unit number on the income form and it will pull up the tenant who currently resides in that unit for payment entry.
  • Special Feature: Added ability to type your own custom messages on the bottom of tenant invoices.
  • The word apartment was removed from reports and screen and replaced with "Unit"- due to the large number of mobile home parks, storage units, commercial properties etc. requesting this.
  • Feature: Added ability to delete a letter from the Tenant's History List of All Letters Sent to that Tenant.
  • release 2.6.1
03/10/99
  • Feature: Typing in anywhere in RentRight will now automatically capitalize where needed (tenant names, street names, etc).
  • Feature: Now you can choose to print 1-2-or 3 copies of each check from the Print Checks Form.
  • Leading zeros on social security numbers can now be entered on the Tenant Form.
  • release 2.5.11
03/06/99
  • Feature: Added ability to print Late Rent and Next Month Invoices by a Building or by an Owner. (Send invoices to all of the tenants in a building or for the same owner or company.)
  • Release 2.5.9
02/18/99
  • CHECK WRITING
  • release 2.5.2
02/10/99
  • Made Summary Income Report calculate balances faster.
  • Feature: Made a new settings on the Menu Bar, Options/Bank Deposit Report, where you can choose how you want to order your bank deposit report.
  • Feature: Added new merge field to add the due date of rent to letters and forms.
  • Much Requested Feature: Added ability to display Inactive and/or Active tenants on the Late Rent Report.
  • Updated the Online Help File. Press F1 for help on each form or field.
  • release 2.5.0
02/10/99
  • Feature: Added ability to print a receipt for a security deposit. Do this directly from the Lease/Deposit Folder.
  • Made it impossible to type over a tenants name when you come into the Tenant Form. Users were typing over and accidentally deleting tenants in this way.
  • Feature:Added new forms on the Letters/Forms folder:
  • Verification of Residence Form
  • Tenant Update Form
  • Lease Renewal Form
  • Lease Non-Renewal Letter
  • Smoke Detector Procedures Form
  • Lease Addendum for Drug Free Housing
  • Changes to Property Inspection Checklist - Added more detail
  • Maintenance Winter Storm Procedures
  • Management Survey Form
  • Rental Prospect Form
  • Application Rejection Letter
  • Landlord Introduction Letter
  • release 2.4.2
02/06/99
  • A new income category called Discount was added. All credits for paying early will now go into this new category so you can get a total of discounts applied for rent.
  • Set up Invoice and Late Invoice and Receipt to work with our double window envelopes. You can now choose to use our custom printed Invoice forms or print on your own on  8 1/2 X 11 paper.
  • release 2.4
01/04/99
  • Feature: Sorted Summary Income by All Properties into separate sections for each building.
  • Made Pop-up calendar pop-up higher so it is not hidden on Lease/Deposit folder and Incidents folder
  • Added ability to change late fee to zero – now works the same as "Clear"
  • Completed new licensing program to activate add on modules as well as different versions by telephone with customers.
  • release 2.3
12/20/1998
  • Income By Category, popped up the wrong form to ask for income type, so you could not print.Fixed problem when in reports getting invalid control array(43)
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  • release 2.02.02
12/09/1998
  • After clicking the Rent account button the Chart Of Accounts pops up. It now gets the focus, and enter selects what you choose, and it does not let you pick the title (Income)
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  • release 2.01.06
12/07/1998
  • Feature: Added Bank Deposit By Owner Report
  • Demo database will be upgraded if necessary
  • 1099 Report
  • 1099 Form
  • Extra Special Feature: Now Owners, contractors and payees all show up on the Contractor/Payee Report Folder. Added ability to run a report on one or all of these types. Information report lists names and addresses of the ones chosen, Payee report will give you the total paid to that vendor within a date range.
  • Feature: Added the ability to select owners on the contractor report section
  • Feature: Easier selection of Contractors / Owners / Payees on contractor report form
  • Change Last Charged from the Tenant Rent folder (start date field)
  • should help alleviate the problem with database too large to backup on one disk.
  • release 2.01.05
11/22/1998
  • Feature: Profit/Loss By Owner Report added (does not use the details check box yet)
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  • release 2.01.04
11/21/1998
  • Changed ‘Apt’ on unit form to ‘Unit’
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  • release 2.01.03
11/18/1998
  • Can have a zero payment IF there are charges and credits that add up to zero
  • Add the ability to have an different account for credit if paid early.
  • Changed the column with deposit to show the payments made this period (Month probably) on the summary income report.
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  • Release 2.01.02
11/13/1998
  • Rebuild Charges (also called by Compact Database) deletes any $0 Tenant Charges.
  • Delete any $0 Payments when selecting a new tenant on income form
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  • release 2.00.24
11/10/1998
  • RentRoll Report failed when a tenant had a deposit charge with no amount.Summary Income Report by Building (invalid use of Null)
  • Bank Deposit Report (invalid SQL) when tenants were’t with a building, (All properties only)
  • release 2.00.21
11/09/1998
  • Max Height on MDI form now takes in to account the start menu bar.
  • Added Move out the the list of merge fields
  • Added Move out to the vacancy report
  • 1 Page tenant report: Show all recurring charges (Account / Amount / Period)
  • 1 Page Tenant report: Only deposit info displayed is total deposit held.
  • ADDED: Summary Income by Building
  • Summary Income Report: If no end date is specified then the balance is calculated by adding any unpaid charges up to today’s date plus any charges paid ahead. If an end date is specified, only charges that are before the end date are included in the calculation. A negative balance indicates that they have paid ahead. This can not happen if an End Date has been specified.
  • Feature Added ability to put in 3 letters in "state" field for Canada, New Zealand and others who need 3 spaces there.
  • Default date of today on add a charge.
  • Fixed trial extension spelling
  • Vacancy report by owners sometimes had buildings from other owners
  • REMINDER: Last Pay was not set in reminder system

  • release 2.00.20
11/06/1998
  • Credits on Income Form: Fixed "The Amount Paid Can Not Be Greater Than The Amount Left.". This made it impossible to apply less than the amount of credit (reversed the sign)
  • Unapplied credit now shows up on the income form.
  • release 2.00.19
11/04/1998
  • RentRoll Report, the headers on all but 1st Building showed the 1st unit address instead of the buildings. Removed some invisible controls on the tenant form
  • release 2.00.18
11/02/1998
  • Do not let the owner form maximize
  • Delete security deposit info on a deleted tenant.
  • After Adding or Deleting a charge recalculate the total amount due
  • Generically (owners letterhead could vary in size) place the details grid on P/L report.
  • Feature Auto charge all tenants a specified number of days before charges are due.
  • Fixed the tab order in Bill To
  • P/L Report did not include neg. income (credit if paid early late fee)
  • release 2.00.16
  • Fix left margin of receipt.
  • release 2.00.17
10/30/1998
  • Feature Added Lease Begin and Lease End to Letter/Form merging options
  • Special Feature Added Bill-To to Receipt, Next Period Invoice, Late Invoice. Now you can send bills to tenants other than the place they are renting. For those renting storage units etc.
  • release 2.00.15
10/29/1998
  • Fixed ability to switch tenant view.
  • release 2.00.14
10/28/1998
  • Feature Added Details to Bank Deposit Report
  • Re-activated the date range on bank deposit report after re-selection
  • If There is no outstanding charges it does not show the discrepancy and amount left fields. These need to be shown if add a charge or charge ahead are selected. FIXED
  • release 2.00.12
10/26/1998
  • # Buildings on P/L needed to be put lower if there is a header
  • Make it impossible to enter in rent for a tenant w/o a Building ID
  • Make it impossible to enter a date in recurring charge. Must use the calendar or +/-
  • Do not include charges that are not due yet (Charged ahead) in balance calculation. (summary income and reminder)
  • release 2.00.10
10/23/1998
  • Zero the rental amount after new tenant.
  • Fixed P/L by date range
  • Fixed date range on net income
  • If a tenant with no charges is selected, then a payment selected, the totaled rent is not shown.
  • release 2.00.09
10/22/1998
  • Special Feature! Added custom messages at the bottom of the income receipt
  • release 2.00.08
10/20/1998
  • Numerically Ordered RentRoll Report
  • Fix receipt, tenant's name was printed over address description
  • Receipt was brought up the preview when it did not need to.
  • Credit if paid too much saves the current payment after done is selected
  • Ordered late fee after the Rent Charge on Payment History
  • release 2.00.07
10/18/1998
  • Feature Added Create A New Charge button
  • Feature Late Fees now Change with the +/- (including credits)
  • Feature Double Click on Amount Paid will put in what is owed
  • Feature Any money left over on a payment asks you if you want to record this as a Tenant Credit
  • Special Feature Enter Key works to select current date from the calendar.
  • Feature Expense Form: Enter Key through from selects and moves on (payee defaults to last one entered)
  • Fixed Payment History with NSF needed to be added back in Contractor Form: Find a contractor, it does not display the correct types at the bottom.
  • release 2.00.06
10/15/1998
  • Moving from Tenant Financial to any other and back, did not retain whether building list was visible.
  • Disable Detail from "Bank Deposit"
  • Building Financial, Income Report if a date is selected and all properties SQL error
  • UPGRADE: if a payment contained only a credit it was not applied
  • Feature Fix double click on form/letter defaults to Edit
  • If you highlight any number PLUS the bottom row of the unpaid charges, delete doesn’t yield a message
  • release 2.00.05
10/13/1998
  • Check what view is set to when choosing by unit, only display those in the view.
  • Feature Add Prospective view to the income form.
  • Feature Added ability to remember what the view option is set to on Tenant and Income forms.
  • release 2.00.04
10/09/1998
  • Fix detailed payment history.
    release 2.00.03
10/08/1998
  • Feature Changed Contractor Name from 30 to 45 characters
  • When switching back to Tenant Financial Tab, if summary income bring the multi-list to front.
  • Get rid of increment after month on income form.
  • If the current tab is Rent (Tenant Form) move the head bulb (incident) to the back.
  • If in form load (Income) do not do the pick tenant by address code.
  • UPDATE: if there are negative charges, create a recurring charge = Rent – Negative add-ons
  • Income Form: Overflow when selecting a tenant with days late > 32000
  • release 2.00.02
10/07/1998
  • Feature  Income form: Now you can select a tenant by address.  If more than one tenant is listed for this address, it pops up a list of the tenants and one of them is selected.Fixed Date Range on Bank Deposit Report
  • Put  Security Deposits in Bank Deposit Report
  • Upgrade: Set Start Date, last charged and Date Due (recurring charges)
  • First time it runs it correctly displays the license info.
  • Feature Added Check/Cash on the security deposit form
  • Special Feature!  Receipts and Invoices now fit in standard double window envelopes

  • Bank Deposit Date Range Header (use the data put in date range)
    release 2.00.01

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