G2

LAURENS P.

Property Manager

Commercial Real Estate

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/27/2026

"Streamlined Lease Templates, E-Signatures, and Fast Photo-Rich Inspection Packets"

5/5

What do you like best about Foxit PDF Editor?

What I like most is being able to build fillable lease templates and route them for e-signature right from the ribbon. That way, tenants can sign renewals and move-in paperwork digitally instead of me chasing down a physical signature. It also syncs cleanly with AppFolio, so a completed lease or inspection form drops straight into the tenant’s file without any manual double upload.

Move-in and move-out inspection packets with high-resolution unit photos load quickly and don’t crash, even when I’m combining photos, damage notes, and the deposit itemization into one clean file. That’s a task that used to eat up half an hour and now takes about five minutes.

With roughly 140 units across our portfolio, switching from two Acrobat seats to Foxit licenses has freed up real budget that we’ve redirected toward tenant screening tools. The AI Assistant has also been genuinely useful for commercial vendor agreements, summarizing a messy twenty-page contract down to the key indemnity clauses and insurance renewal dates in seconds instead of me having to read the whole thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Foxit PDF Editor?

The mobile app is the main weak spot for me. During a drive-by unit inspection, when I need to pull up a signed lease or quickly log a maintenance note from my phone, about half the editing tools I rely on at my desk just aren’t available. As a result, I often end up waiting until I’m back at the office to finish things properly.

Performance has also taken a hit for me at times. When I batch-merged a large eviction case file years of notices, photos, and correspondence the app noticeably slowed down and, on one occasion, froze completely. That forced me to restart and redo part of the merge.

Support has been a mixed bag rather than consistently bad. A simple question about bulk-exporting tenant files got a same-day answer, but a licensing hiccup that hit right at the start of move-in season went unresolved for almost two full days. That’s rough timing when a stack of new tenants is waiting on signed paperwork.

Our sync with Buildium has also lagged a few times when pushing updated maintenance invoices, occasionally showing a vendor an outdated version before it finally catches up. And while the AI Assistant is generally solid for scanning vendor contracts, it once summarized a renewal clause a little too loosely and smoothed over a rent-escalation percentage—something I only caught because I reread the original page myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Foxit PDF Editor solving and how is that benefiting you?

The core problem it solved for us was how scattered our tenant and vendor paperwork used to be. Leases, maintenance invoices, inspection photos, and eviction correspondence were spread across different folders and email threads, and it often took too long to pull everything together before anyone could actually act on it. Now, bulk-exporting a batch of tenant files for our accountant at month-end takes minutes instead of the better part of an afternoon. And pushing signed lease renewals and updated maintenance invoices through our Buildium sync helps keep vendors and tenants working from the same version most of the time, even with the occasional lag I mentioned earlier.

Being able to consolidate an entire eviction case file notices, photos, and correspondence into one organized, searchable document has made it much easier to hand off to our attorney when a case actually goes to court. That used to be a scramble of loose PDFs and printed pages. Dropping two Acrobat seats for Foxit's licensing has also freed up a modest but meaningful chunk of budget each year enough to cover a decent portion of the tenant-screening subscription we picked up instead—on top of the hours we’ve clawed back from manual file organization.

The AI Assistant has cut real time off reviewing vendor service contracts as well, flagging insurance and renewal terms in seconds instead of me reading every page. That said, the loose clause summary I mentioned earlier is exactly why I still read the fine print myself before signing off. Across a roughly 140-unit portfolio, it’s meaningfully lightened the admin load overall. The main area I’d still like to see improved is the mobile gap, since a chunk of my actual workday happens out at the properties, not at my desk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.