# Stessa Reviews **Vendor:** Stessa **Category:** [Real Estate Investment Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/real-estate-investment-management) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Stessa Stessa makes it easy for rental property investors to track, manage and report on their real estate investments - for FREE. Tens of thousands of investors use Stessa to track over $25 billion in real estate assets. Save time and optimize your single-family rentals and multifamily buildings with visual performance dashboards, automated income and expense tracking, document organization tools, and tax-ready financial reports. Get started in minutes: add your properties, link your financial accounts, and everything updates in real-time. ## Stessa Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise Stessa for its **responsive customer support** , always providing helpful assistance when needed. (2 reviews) - Users find Stessa's **intuitive accounting features** essential for managing transactions and tenant payments effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users love the **intuitive dashboards** in Stessa that simplify financial management and enhance usability. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy setup and intuitive interface** of Stessa, enhancing their daily financial management experience. (1 reviews) - Users commend the **ease of use** of Stessa, finding it intuitive and efficient for managing finances. (1 reviews) - Easy Setup (1 reviews) - Helpful (1 reviews) - Integrations (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) - Mobile App (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face significant **connectivity issues** with Stessa, especially regarding bank connections and rigid expense categories. (1 reviews) - Users experience **integration issues** with Stessa, needing to frequently re-setup tenant bank accounts. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited customization** options frustrating, affecting their ability to tailor the software to their needs. (1 reviews) - Users find **limited flexibility** in Stessa due to hardwired features and connectivity issues with certain banks. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited functionality** of Stessa frustrating, with issues like non-customizable expense categories and connection problems. (1 reviews) - Manual Processes (1 reviews) - Payment Issues (1 reviews) - Setup Complexity (1 reviews) - Upload Issues (1 reviews) - Upload Limitations (1 reviews) ## Stessa Reviews ### 1. Stessa is a life saver for the smaller real estate investor who is growing their portfolio. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Stessa?** Intuitive user interface, easy to set up. Customer Support has always been very responsive. Simplifies income and expense transactions management. Integration with Stessa Rent Pay to allow my tenants to setup monthly autopay easily, and to alert me when a rent payment is late. I am in Stessa every day; its my primary dashboard on my desktop in my office. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** Certain elements are hardwired and not customizable, such as expense categories, or the inability to sort my cash management accounts in a particular order. One of my Credit Union banks cannot be connected because Stessa does not use Plaid and Yodlee doesn' recognize the FAIRWINDS Credit Union business banking logon. Manually uploading my transaction files is cumbersome and messy. **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before I found Stessa, I was trying to manage on my own with my spreadsheets which got overwhelming and time consuming. Stessa provides a centrally organized view and management of my real estate portfolio, automating many tasks. The finacial reports are critical to help me track my profitablity and make decisions such as when and how much to renovate any given property. Prior to Stessa I was over-spending on remodels. Now I have a much better view into my monthly cashflows. I was also frequently caught unaware if a tenant was late on their rent. Stessa and Stessa Rent Pay has helped improve my tenants paying on time. The Stessa Cash Management accounts through Thread Bank allow me to earn reasonable returns on my stored cash for which I have set up individual accounts for each property, as well as my property management entity. Each property account serves as my Repair & Replacement Reserves account, so its been great to earn 4%+ on that money directly in the checking accounts instead of having to try to ladder CDs elsewhere. ### 2. Jackson Lunt Review For Stessa **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jack L. | Development Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Stessa?** Their Customer support, they are always so helpful. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** A few times I have had to re-setup some tenants bank accounts. **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage lots of tenants and their payments in one place. ### 3. Everything I needed! Even the stuff I didn't know I wanted. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter S. | Vice President, Field Consulting Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Stessa?** I love that the software connects to other financial sites to import transactions automatically. After the import, it will even automatically categorize the transaction based on what it is and the history of its previous transactions. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** I hate saying it, but so far there is nothing I dislike. I'm only a few weeks into using the software, and so far, it's a home run for me. **Recommendations to others considering Stessa:** If you are a real estate investor, Stessa is a must-have. I can't imagine growing my portfolio without this tool, and I've only just started using it. **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Stessa, I was using property management software to manage my small long-term rental portfolio. That's great, except when it comes time to prepare tax returns, the other software falls a bit short. Stessa lets me track and categorize all of the financials for my properties and does so quickly and in many cases automatically. This tracking and categorization should make tax time easy. ### 4. Why **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ronald J. L. | Vice President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Stessa?** Integration of accounts and easy to print reports **What do you dislike about Stessa?** Will not integrate with my pm company's software **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ### 5. 0 support. will not offer any support unless you email them and maybe they answer maybe they don’t **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Stessa?** It seems to cover what I need to maintain my rental portfolio **What do you dislike about Stessa?** I don’t like that there is NO support. There is no way to solve a problem other than message these people. And this could go on for days. The program has been a bit buggy .. I have had a problem with transactions for 23 days.. and have had very little communication from “support”. I can’t even get anyone at Stessa acknowledge my messages. Very poor service **Recommendations to others considering Stessa:** So what buggy at times .... if you take you business seriously.. use something else. The people who manage this program do not take Stessa seriously.. or they would be more concerned about their customers. **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly transactions... I have been using Stessa for 3 years and have lots of data ... right about now I see no benefits because I have to start over with something lease right about tax time ### 6. Terribe **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelly N. | b, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Stessa?** Absolutely nothing, financial links do not work properly... constant data gets mixed up. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** Everything, I tried to use it and it was useless. The financial information was not pulled and linking properly. Data was constantly getting mixed up. Support is non existent. **Recommendations to others considering Stessa:** don't use it **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** none , it only caused me problems ### 7. Stessa is the only way I can really track the details of my business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Stessa?** I'm able to keep track of all my income and expenses as well as being able to see trends. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** Not really anything. It's not fair to complain about an app I use for free. **Recommendations to others considering Stessa:** I highly recommend the app. It has transformed my recording and tracking of the data in my business. Additionally they made doing my taxes so easy... I literally just exported my tax report and gave it to my tax guy and it was DONE. LOVE IT!!! **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Stessa as a Quickbooks alternative. Plus it allows me to share details with my partners. I now don't have to keep track of every single expense because it connects to my bank account. ### 8. It's Quickbooks on steroids for real estate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rick K. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Stessa?** Stessa does all the hard work for me. It categorizes most transactions for me and makes my life much easier. I'm also able to use it with multiple portfolios and connect certain bank accounts to certain properties. It's been a huge time saver for me. When I did my taxes last year I just ran a report on Stessa and was able to print out ever thing I needed for my certified public accountant. I handed him the print outs and he input the data, bim bam boom and that was it. He did not have to ask me a bunch of questions and spend hours sifting through and categorizing my each and every expense. This saved me a ton of time and MONEY on the hours he didn't bill me for. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** NOTHING. The app has made my life so much better and made me not HATE book keeping. **Recommendations to others considering Stessa:** This is by far the best accounting software I've found to replace quickbooks and I highly recommend taking the time to set it up and use it. **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not worried about book keeping any longer. Stessa does 99% of the work for me and especially the parts I hate like data entry and remembering to input EVERY last expense. I'm now able to have multiple CC/debit cards connected to multiple properties and it's made managing my properties and projects much easier then before. Stessa has made my life significantly easier and the book keeping more manageable. ### 9. The only way I can keep up with receipts!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Stessa?** It’s so simple yet so effective to use. I’m a small real estate investor and this is perfect to keep up with my expenses for renovating my rentals. Also, a nice little touch is when you’re uploading a property, it can populate the address for you and pull information about the property from online. Saves time and is a nice, extra feature. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** Maybe including a mobile dashboard for the app. Unfortunately you have to login to the website version to see the dashboard. However, it does look like they’re working to update this. **Recommendations to others considering Stessa:** It’s a nice app for a quick and easy process. **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** Receipts fade!! And I lose them... so I’m able to store all my expenses for each property separately and throughout the year. ### 10. Business Reveiw in Real Time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony S. | Realtor, Hospitality, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Stessa?** Stessa is easy to use, offers excellent reporting and makes record keeping fun. If you’re a numbers guys like me you will love seeing all your important metrics on one page. I can conduct a business review with myself anytime of the day and look for profit opportunities in each of my investments. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** There isn’t anything to dislike. There are more updates coming out soon for the mobile app as well as Capex tools I am told. I am excited about this. **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are making renovations on each new rental. I have been able to easily track my cash flows making it easier to budget repairs and make decisions. The tax documents will make 2019 my easiest tax year yet. ### 11. The best rental tracking app- and free! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dillon A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Stessa?** I created an excel sheet to track all of my rentals which was fine. Then I heard about Stessa from Bigger Pickets Podcasts and gave it a try. It was the easiest transformation from my excel sheets into the app- It categorizes everything perfectly and makes clean and precise information and graphs. Amazing app. **What do you dislike about Stessa?** I use a few small-town banks that are not yet in the Stessa system, it makes me have to manually enter some information into the system, but that is fine! I imagine they work hard to add banks all the time **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to keep good track of my investments- all expenses and incomes. Also it will benefit me for tax reasons ### 12. Rental property investor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen M. | CT Technologist, Hospital & Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Stessa?** I like the dashboard layout a lot. Being able to see a summary of all your properties and how they are performing is really helpful **What do you dislike about Stessa?** No android app yet. I would like to be able to capture receipts on my phone. **What problems is Stessa solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organizing my expenses for tax time. ## Stessa Discussions - [How do you use Stessa?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-use-stessa) - 1 comment - [View Stessa pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/stessa/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-04+09%3A00%3A13+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=787ab182-bf6a-4749-b11f-93e83be8f62d&secure%5Btoken%5D=1bbb27d5cb176937b1aa4d42651b322a0178af19d17fbd9e535c915dc78c145f&format=llm_user) ## Stessa Features **Lease Administration Platform Features** - Portfolio Administration - Lease Accounting - Lease Auditing - Document Management - Critical Date Alarms - Regulatory Compliance - Localization - Integration / APIs - Reporting - Dashboards **Leasing** - Vacancy Advertising - Rental Applications - Tenant Screening - Lease Templates - Document Management **Platform Basics** - Interoperability - Reporting **Portfolio Monitoring** - Asset Management - Portfolio Management - Market Research - Investment Management **Building Operations** - Maintenance Service Requests - Property Inspections - Service Portals - Building Announcements - Resource Reservations **Platform Content** - Automation **Investment Operations Management** - Investor Portal - Back-Office Operations - Fundraising Management - Deal Management - Financial Calculator - Investor Reporting **Agentic AI - Lease Administration** - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Accounting** - Property Accounting - Online Payment - Company Financials - Certificates of Insurance (COI) - Dashboards **Platform Data** - Visualization - Dashboard - Alerts and Notifications **Platform Additional Functionality** - Cloud - Portal - Investor Statements - Mobility **Operations** - Tenant Portal - Integration with Rental Payment Solution - Lease Application Management - Tenant Screening - Amenity Management - Accounting Module - Maintenance Management - Listing Syndication **Agentic AI - Property Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Stessa Alternatives - [Innago](https://www.g2.com/products/innago/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (651 reviews) - [Yardi Breeze](https://www.g2.com/products/yardi-breeze/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (359 reviews) - [AppFolio](https://www.g2.com/products/appfolio/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,020 reviews)