Property records, captured

A paper trail for the parts of property management that always go undocumented.

Move-ins, move-outs, maintenance, lease violations. Turn each one into a structured digital flow. Tenants and vendors complete their part. You get a finalized PDF, every time.

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$5 to $15 per record, or $99/mo unlimited
Works alongside your main PMS
The problem

The most important records in property management are also the most poorly kept.

Your PMS handles rent, leases, and accounting. The other half (the photos, the condition notes, the maintenance receipts, the violation timeline) lives in someone's camera roll, email thread, and memory.

Photos that prove nothing

Move-in photos on one phone, move-out photos on another, and no way to compare them when the deposit math starts.

Repairs with no timeline

The tenant called Tuesday, you texted the plumber Wednesday, the receipt is in someone's email. Who pays for what is a guess.

Violations with no paper trail

Three noise complaints, two warnings, one phone call you swear happened, and nothing on paper when the lawyer asks.

One shared dashboard

Every flow lands in the same record set.

Properties, contacts, photos, files, billing, and a timestamped history. All in one place. Every record is exportable as PDF the moment it's finalized.

Properties
Units, addresses, owner mapping.
Contacts
Tenants, owners, vendors.
Flow history
Every step, timestamped.
Photos & files
Linked to property and flow.
Billing
Pay per record or go unlimited.
Exportable records
PDFs, CSVs, audit logs.
Pricing

$5 to $15 per record, or $99/mo unlimited.

Pay per workflow when you need one: Move-In $10, Move-Out $15, Maintenance $5, Lease Violation $10. Run more than ten a month? Go Unlimited for $99/month across up to 100 properties. Your first record is free, no card required.

Pay per record, no monthly minimum
Or $99/month unlimited — up to 100 properties
1 free record · No credit card required
Move-In Record
Baseline before move-in, photos, signatures
$10 / record
Move-Out
Room-by-room walk, signed PDF
$15 / record
Maintenance Record
Request to completion, vendor receipts
$5 / record
Lease Violation Record
Incidents, lease refs, communication log
$10 / record
Unlimited plan
Unlimited workflows · up to 100 properties
$99 / month
Real situations

Built for the moments where the paper trail matters.

Not theoretical use cases. Specific, recurring, expensive-to-mishandle moments every property manager already knows.

Situation 01

A tenant moves out and disputes a damage charge.

Before

You dig through two phones for photos, can't find the move-in pictures, and end up eating the cost.

After

Move-In Record and Move-Out sit side-by-side in the dashboard. The Deposit Builder PDF lists each deduction with timestamped photos and receipts.

Situation 02

A repair drags on for three weeks.

Before

You forget which vendor came out, who approved the second visit, and what the receipt total was.

After

The Maintenance Record shows the full timeline: tenant request, triage, vendor visits, receipts, sign-off. Export the PDF for the owner.

Situation 03

You need to evict for repeated lease violations.

Before

You assemble a timeline from texts, calls, neighbor complaints, and your own memory the night before court.

After

The Lease Violation Record is already there. Each incident is dated, referenced to the lease, with photos and a communication log. The PDF is court-ready.

Why DiscoveryMark

Not another oversized property management platform.

DiscoveryMark only handles the parts of property management that produce a record. Use it alongside your PMS, accounting, and listing tools. Don't replace them.

One flow, one record

Each flow ends in something exportable: a PDF you can hand to an owner, a tenant, or a lawyer.

From $5 per record, flat

Pay per workflow: $5 for maintenance, $10 for move-in or lease violations, $15 for move-out. Or go Unlimited for $99/month across up to 100 properties. No tiers, no seat counts.

Tenants do the heavy lifting

Most flows send a structured link to the tenant or vendor. They fill in the photos, the notes, the signatures. You finalize.

Pillar guides

The four guides that cover everything.

If you only read four things about property documentation, read these. Each one is a deep, practical pillar — the move-in, the move-out, maintenance, and the broad framework that ties them together.

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Pillar · documentation

Property Documentation for Landlords: The Complete Reference (2026)

A single reference for everything a landlord or property manager has to document, where each artifact lives, how long it's kept, and how the four documentation categories (move-in, move-out, maintenance, lease violations) connect into one defensible system. Includes an interactive readiness scorecard.

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Pillar · move in move out

Move-In Records for Landlords: The Complete 2026 Guide

Everything you need to capture on move-in day so the lease, the walkthrough, the photos, the keys, and the signatures hold up eighteen months later. Built around how disputes actually play out, not how landlord blogs imagine they do.

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Pillar · move in move out

Move-Out and Security Deposit Records: The 2026 Landlord Playbook

Most security deposit disputes are lost on the disposition letter, late, vague, or unsupported by the move-in baseline. This is the full playbook: walkthrough, deduction standards, the state-by-state refund clock, and an interactive calculator that builds a defensible itemized letter you can paste straight into an envelope.

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Pillar · maintenance

Rental Maintenance Documentation: The Complete Repair Paper Trail Guide (2026)

Every repair has a paper trail (request, triage, vendor, approval, completion) and every stage produces evidence that decides habitability claims, insurance claims, deductions, and audits. This is the system that captures it without doubling your workload.

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Latest articles

Practical writing on property records.

Move-ins, move-outs, deposits, maintenance, lease violations. How to keep records that hold up when the dispute starts.

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May 22, 2026 · DiscoveryMark Team

How to Remove a Squatter From a Rental Property: A Landlord's State-by-State Playbook (2026)

Squatter removal is decided in the first 72 hours by what the landlord does not do — does not accept money, does not negotiate a move-out date, does not serve a notice that creates a tenancy, does not call the police without the right paperwork in hand. This guide is the operating playbook: what a squatter actually is under the law, the three legal removal paths and when each one applies, the proof file you build before any action, the new fast-track statutes 19 states passed in 2024–2025 (FL, GA, AL, WV, NY, TN, TX, PA, MI, IL, IN, NC, KY, MS, AR, UT, KS, MT, WY), the adverse-possession reality (and why it almost never applies to your case), and an interactive state-by-state widget with timelines, citations, and source links.

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May 22, 2026 · Austin Spaeth

The Virginia Landlord & Property Manager Guide (2026)

Everything a Virginia landlord or property manager needs in one place: the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (Title 55.1, Chapter 12, §§ 55.1-1200 to 55.1-1262), the 2-month all-inclusive security-deposit cap and 45-day return window under § 55.1-1226, the rewritten § 55.1-1243.1 self-help damages floor of $5,000 or four months' rent (whichever is greater), the July 1, 2026 expansion of the nonpayment pay-or-quit notice from 5 to 14 days under HB 15 / SB 48, the § 55.1-1244 tenant assertion and rent escrow procedure that runs the habitability litigation, the 2020 expansion of § 36-96.3 to make source of income a protected class, the $50 application fee cap at § 55.1-1203, the 10% late-fee cap at § 55.1-1204(E), the Eviction Diversion Program made permanent in 2025, the General District Court unlawful detainer timeline, the Virginia Beach Sandbridge / CUP framework, the Arlington Accessory Homestay rule, and the city-by-city STR ordinances for Richmond, Alexandria, Norfolk, Charlottesville, and Loudoun.

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May 21, 2026 · DiscoveryMark Team

Mold in a Rental: The Landlord's Response and Documentation Playbook (Avoid the Six-Figure Lawsuit)

Mold lawsuits aren't decided by whether mold was present. They're decided by how fast the landlord responded and whether the response is on paper. Most landlord insurance policies exclude or cap mold coverage, which means the loss falls on the landlord directly. This is the playbook: the three overlapping legal frameworks (implied warranty of habitability, negligence, state mold statutes), the 72-hour response sequence, the EPA threshold that separates DIY from professional remediation, the hygienist-vs-remediator conflict, the state laws that change the timeline, the insurance gap, the mold disclosure obligations at lease signing, and the response file that protects the landlord whichever way the dispute goes.

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Pick the record you wish you had last month.

Move-in. Move-out. A repair. A violation. Run it through DiscoveryMark this month and see what a real paper trail feels like.

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