Only you widen authority
A manager can narrow their own profile on their own. Widening it back is not theirs to do — restoring authority requires you again. Whoever starts an act and whoever confirms it are kept apart on purpose.
For owners
Trust the operation without running it.
The question that keeps an owner up is not whether the report looks good. It is what the person managing your asset is allowed to do without asking you — and whether what you are reading is the whole story. Both are answered by rules, not by a dashboard.
Your authority
What a manager cannot do without you.
Delegation is only safe when its edges are written down. These four are enforced in the model the product is built from, which is why they hold on a Tuesday afternoon when nobody is watching.
Emergency is its own lane
Emergency spending authority is a separate decision, and it never falls back to the ordinary one. A manager cannot reach an emergency limit by calling an ordinary expense urgent.
Only you can close the property
A manager, co-owner, tenant or vendor can report an error, a duplicate or a fraud concern for review. None of that becomes authority to close the property, which stays with the verified primary owner.
Accepting is not taking over
Between a manager accepting your invitation and actually holding responsibility there is a separate step that can fail item by item. Until it is effective, current responsibility does not change.
What you see
Signal, not a second job.
You should not have to enter daily operations to know whether the asset is healthy. What reaches you is the decision and the evidence behind it.
Approvals that carry their reason
The estimate that produced the request comes with it. You are approving a number attached to a recommendation, not a number somebody typed into a message.
Costs attached to the unit
Every repair, vendor visit and completion photo files against the property, so the cost history of the asset does not depend on who was managing it that year.
Payouts with the work behind them
Stripe Connect accounts, onboarding and rent readiness. Money movement carries the same record as the job that caused it.
The decision you sent, proven
An application decision carries delivery evidence. If a rejected applicant ever asks what they were told and when, the answer is on file rather than in somebody memory.
No manager? Still a customer
Managing it yourself is a state, not a gap.
A property has exactly one active management relationship, one active self-management period, or none at all. That third option is the half most systems never write down, and it is why the owner of a single condo is a first-class user here instead of an unsupported edge case.
With no active record the product does not invent authority for anyone. It answers that the property is unassigned — and an answer is not an error. Later, when you do hire a manager, the history you built while running it yourself stays exactly where it is.
One property costs 39.90 a monthWho is responsible, right now
A management company
One active relationship, with a period and an authority profile you set.
You, directly
An active self-management period. The same record, the same rules, no middle layer.
Nobody yet
Unassigned. The product says so instead of guessing, and nothing acts on your behalf.
When the management changes
- The person changes
- A handoff moves the representative inside the same company. The previous assignment ends and a new one begins.
- The company changes
- A different path entirely. Neither one is ever inferred from the other.
- What does not change
- The management relationship itself is not rewritten, and historical attribution stays intact.
Continuity
Whoever signed last year still signed it.
Changing managers is the moment a normal system forgets. Records get reassigned to whoever holds the role now, and last year inspection quietly acquires a new author.
Here the representative has their own period. A handoff ends one assignment and starts another without rewriting what came before, so the person who signed the move-in inspection two tenants ago is still the person who signed it.
How the record survives everyoneToday
What is already running.
YellowUnit is in early access. This is the honest split for an owner — what holds your data on a database now, and what is built and moving there.
- Property record, photos and verified timezoneLive
- Owner and manager invitations with one-time codesLive
- Applications, criteria versions and decision evidenceLive
- Work orders, dispatch and completion evidenceLive
- Stripe Connect payouts and rent readinessLive
- Owner statements and accounting syncIn build
- Approval queue for repair estimatesIn build
- Co-ownership and ownership transferIn build
The roadmap has the whole picture, with the rule that decides what counts as live.
Early access
Start with the property you already own.
One unit is a complete account. Bring it in, and decide later whether anyone else manages it.