Instead of MRI Property Tree
Stop renting MRI Property Tree. Own your rent roll system.
We shape your version around how your agency runs its portfolio, carry your Property Tree owners, properties and tenancies across, and look after it for you. The records end up in a database with your name on it.
MRI does not publish Property Tree pricing. Review sites say it is priced on the size of your rent roll.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
Where the money goes
A Property Tree subscription mostly pays for screens
Your ownerships, tenancies, ledgers and inspection history are records your team created. What the subscription rents you is the way in to them, sized to your portfolio and extended one product at a time.
A price you only learn from a sales call
There is no price on MRI's site, only a phone number. Review sites say the price is built around how many properties you manage, so a good year winning new management agreements shows up as a bigger software invoice.
Separate products for jobs, reports and the portal
MRI lists Maintenance Plus, Business Insights, Property Tree Connect and its Alex assistant as their own products next to Property Tree.
Custom dashboards in another product
Richer custom reports and dashboards sit in Business Insights, which MRI lists as its own product next to Property Tree.
Connections on the vendor's terms
Reviewers on the software comparison sites ask for Zapier, webhooks and easier integrations. What talks to your rent roll, and how, is decided in someone else's product plan.
A slow day in the office is a slow day for everyone
It is a hosted system, so the arrears list, the inspection run and the owner statements all sit behind the same login and the same connection. Reviewers mention slowdowns.
Getting your data out, report by report
Leaving means running the contact export, the tenancy schedule and the ledgers one report at a time, then working out what a new system can take. Your history is yours, but the shape it comes out in is MRI's.
What your agency gets
The rent roll, answering back
Rent
Arrears as a sequence of dated steps
Ask who is behind this morning and get more than a balance: how many days, how many of them working days, which notices have gone out, and what the next lawful step is under the rules you keep.
- check Every tenancy in arrears with the amount, the days late and the date rent last came in
- check The breach or termination notice that is due next, and the ones that were never served
- check Working days and calendar days kept apart, because tenancy law counts both
- check A letter to the tenant written from the ledger, left as a draft for a person to check and send
Rules
Your state's tenancy rules, pointed at your records
The rule book is written out in plain English with the section each rule comes from. Australian agencies change the numbers to their state's Act once, and every check after that uses them.
- check Entry notices checked against the notice period before an inspection is booked
- check Bonds not lodged on time with the state authority, found before a tenant complains
- check Rent increases checked against how often your state allows them
- check Old tenant records you should no longer be holding, listed so someone can deal with them
Portfolio
Inspections and repairs, sorted by who is holding them up
Routine inspections against the cycle you set, and every open job grouped by what it is waiting for: a landlord's approval, a tradesperson, or an invoice.
- check Inspections that are overdue, and the ones booked without enough notice
- check Urgent repairs first, then work stuck with a landlord for more than a week, with the landlord named
- check Jobs approved but never sent to a tradesperson, and jobs finished but never billed
- check An inspection report in your branding, made from the findings room by room
Ownership
Records with your name on them
Your rent roll lives in a database your agency owns. Reports come out in your colours, and a new question is a sentence, not a feature request.
- check Monthly owner summaries and arrears letters on your letterhead, from one brand file
- check Simple read-only pages showing this week and the whole portfolio
- check How far each rent sits below the market figure you hold, and which reviews are due
- check Your Property Tree exports brought in with a test run first, so nothing lands unseen
Make it yours
Design your own MRI Property Tree replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from MRI Property Tree. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your MRI Property Tree data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from MRI Property Tree
The move happens report by report and record by record, not overnight, and most of the effort is in checking your own data rather than the mechanics of moving it.
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Export your records from Property Tree
Go to the report menu in Property Tree and export what the account allows, usually CSV. Pull the contact export for owners and tenancies, the tenancy schedule and the tenancy ledgers. These cover who owns what, who is renting it, and the rent history you need. Check with Property Tree if a report you rely on is not listed there.
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Load your records in, with a test run first
Bring those exported files into the new system as plain CSV. Before anything is saved, run it in test mode so you can see every record it plans to bring across, without touching your live data. Only once that looks right do you run it again for real and let it write the records.
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Check what the import flags
The paid-to date on each tenancy becomes an opening rent charge, so your arrears figure is correct from the first minute rather than starting blank. Every property that comes across gets its compliance items marked as unknown rather than compliant, on purpose, so nothing is assumed clean just because Property Tree did not flag it.
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Run both side by side for a while
Keep Property Tree exactly as it is for trust accounting: receipting, owner payments, bank reconciliation and the audit trail all stay there, because that is what your auditor knows and expects. Use the new system alongside it for the tenancy, arrears, inspection, maintenance and owner reporting work, and compare the two until you trust what it shows.
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Switch off Property Tree for the rest
Once the new system's arrears list, inspection schedule and owner reports match what you have been checking against Property Tree, stop using it for that side of the work. Keep it running only for trust accounting, or move that too if and when you choose a different trust system. Do not turn it off before you have confirmed the match.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is mapping your own fields and rules onto the new records, and deciding how much history to bring across rather than leave behind in Property Tree. The export and import steps are mechanical. The judgment calls, like which old arrears cases still matter and which compliance gaps need chasing first, take longer. Enterprise DNA does this mapping and decides the history question with you when they set up and run your version.
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Start with the free version, or have Enterprise DNA set up yours
Open source
Try it yourself
Free
- 1 Download the free version from GitHub
- 2 Run npm run demo and open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Ask who is behind on rent, or type /arrears
- 4 Map your Property Tree CSV reports into it when you are ready
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We carry your Property Tree ownerships, properties, tenancies and tenants across and check the totals match
- check We set the rules to your state's tenancy Act and your management agreement
- check We connect it to your email, your accounting and the trust account you keep
- check Phone inspections, a tenant portal or a screen for the front desk, if you want them, run inside Omni with the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of MRI Property Tree, answered
Property Tree does our trust accounting. Do we lose that? expand_more
No, and this version is not trying to take it. Receipting, owner payments, bank reconciliation and the audit stay in Property Tree or whichever trust system you choose. This keeps a rent record so it can tell you who is behind and by how much, but it never touches client money. You can run the two side by side: trust accounting where the auditor expects it, and everything else in records they own.
How much does Property Tree cost, and what will we save? expand_more
MRI does not publish a price. Review sites say Property Tree is priced on how many properties you manage. Bring your latest invoice to the call and we will go through which parts of it pay for work you would still need, and which parts pay for screens.
Can we get our history out of Property Tree? expand_more
Yes. Property Tree reports export to CSV from the report menu, including the contact export for ownerships and tenancies, the tenancy schedule and the tenancy ledgers. The free version reads a different system's export layout, so these columns need mapping first. That mapping is part of what Enterprise DNA does when we set yours up, or you can ask Claude Code to map it yourself, with a test run showing every record before anything is saved. Photos and stored documents are handled separately.
The rules in the free version are for New Zealand. We are in Australia. expand_more
The rules sit in one plain-English file, and it already notes the New South Wales and Victorian equivalents with the sections to read. You change the notice periods, bond timing and rent increase limits once, and every check uses them from then on. When Enterprise DNA builds your version we set it to your state's Act and your management agreement. It is your rule book, not legal advice.
Our team lives on their phones during inspections. Is there an app? expand_more
Not in the free version. It covers everything around the visit: which inspections are late, whether proper notice went out, the findings, the repairs they lead to and the branded report. Keep the inspection app you use today, or have Enterprise DNA add a phone app with photos and offline mode to your version.
Find out what your Property Tree quote is really paying for
30 minutes with Sam. Bring your Property Tree invoice and tell us how your team spends its week. We will show you what your own version would look like and what it would take to move. If it fits, we build it and run it. If not, the free version is yours to keep.
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