Bar Charts, Graphs, and Pie Charts are now available on almost all the reports. This helps give you a quick visual representation of how your doing, how much money is going in and out, where the money is going, etc.

You also have the option of selecting which type of Graph or Chart you want to include in your report, or none if you prefer.

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You can now set an "Advance Notice" value in the Scheduled Entries which will tell the software how far ahead the Suggested Entry should be created of it's due date.

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It's now possible to send emails from directly within LandlordMax. You can send email to your tenants, vendors, landlords, contacts, and anyone else you wish that has an email address. In addition to sending emails, it's also possible to attach reports as PDF's to your emails, and so on.

LandlordMax offers support for sending emails through your mailserver (ISP or domain), through Outlook, as well as through Gmail.

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If you have Outlook installed on your computer, you can now import and export your contacts to and from LandlordMax and Outlook.

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When viewing the list of Invoices, Receipts, and Workorders, it's now possible to instantly print a full list of all the items, print only the selected items, or print individual items.

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There's a completely new "Contacts" Workarea within the software in which you can store any number of contacts you wish beyond what's available for tenants, landlords, and vendors. These can be anything from personal contacts to business contacts, to real estate agents, to you name it.

As part of the contacts information you can also classify the "Contact Type", which makes it easier to manage and filter your data. For example, you can create a Contact Type called "Real Estate Agents", "Mortgage Brokers", "Personal", and so on.

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All accounting entries can now be optionally associated to an "Account". Accounts are a new feature in LandlordMax which allow you to link an accounting entry to a specific account (be it a bank, a lender, or any other financial institution).

Several new reports (as indicated a bit later on this page) are directly available for reporting on Accounts.

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A new "Schedule" button has been added to the Accounting, Receipts, and Invoices Workareas where you can select an item and click on the Schedule button to have it create a new Scheduled Entry for you based on the selected entry.

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Twenty new reports have been added to this version of LandlordMax:

• Accounting entries grouped by category for one account
• Expenses grouped by category for one account
• Revenues grouped by category for one account
• List all tenants grouped by building
• Accounting entries for a category for a landlord
• Accounting entries for a category for a tenant
• Accounting entries for an account
• Expenses for an account
• Revenues for an account
• Accounting entries grouped by account
• Expenses grouped by account
• Revenues grouped by account
• List all accounts
• Late accounting entries for an account
• Late accounting entries grouped by account
• Cashflow for one account
• Cashflow grouped by account
• List of expiring leases grouped by building for one landlord
• List of security deposits grouped by building for one landlord
• List all contacts

The left side menu navigation was revamped with some areas being moved around. The previous "Extras" section has been separate out into "Import/Export", "Preferences", and "About". This has been done to make navigation to the different configuration and setting screens easier and simpler.

The Tenant Selection Comboboxes have been significantly revamped. Instead of just simply listing all Tenants by alphabetical, the Tenants are first sorted by their Status ("Current", "Potential", "Past", "Non Potential", and finally "Evicted"), as well as color coded by their Status: Black for Current, Green for Potential, Gray for Past, Orange for Non-Potential, and Red for Evicted.

In addition to this, the Tenant Status Combobox is also now color coded to the same colors.

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In addition to being able to export all reports as PDF and CSV, the latest version of LandlordMax also allows you to export all reports as:

• PDF
• CSV
• Excel
• RTF(directly readable by Word)
• HTML

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The "Payment Type" Combobox has now become it's own section in the Accounting Entry Workarea rather than just an editable combobox. As well please note that if you already own LandlordMax, you're existing Payment Types will be migrated to this new section of the Accounting system.

Added a new preference which can be toggled on or off (by default it's on) which will determine whether a Suggested Accounting Entry is generated when a new Workorder is saved for the first time.

The Amortization Table Report in the Analysis Workarea has been completely revamped in this release. Firstly all amortization reports now include a bar chart showing the Loan Balance and Principal Balance over the term of the mortgage.

In addition to this, it's now possible to customize the amortization report title to anything you wish, so that you can for example state for which property the current report is for, etc.

You can now also email any amortization table report directly within the software, making it easier to share your research to partners, investors, etc.

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LandlordMax now has a Digital Code Signing Certificate to authenticate and guarantee that the code is from LandlordMax and hasn't been altered.

Code signing lets you know the origin of the code, and prevents a hacker from distributing software in someone else’s name (for example, putting a malicious program on a Web site for download and claiming that from Microsoft). In addition to verifying the identity of the publisher, code signing can protect the code from tampering (if the code is changed, the digital signature is invalidated). Thus, code signing provides two security protections: authentication of the author of the code and integrity of the code itself.

More information on Code signing can be found at Microsoft and Wikipedia.

A Start and End Date field have been added for all Security Deposit reports to make it possible to list all security deposits for leases between the two specified dates. This allows you to get a list of all Security Deposits for this year, last year, last month, last quarter, etc.

As well a Lease Begin and End date column has been added to all the Security Deposit reports.

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Optimized the Rent Roll Reports to increase the speed by they are generated by at least an order of magnitude, and in some cases by up to two orders of magnitude.

When a new lease is saved and a scheduled entry is created, rather than just use the Lease's Begin Date then revert to today if there is no Begin Date, the software will now try to use the Lease's Begin Date, then the Lease's Move-in Date, and then today.

Priority has now been added as a column in the main Workorder Workarea. As well, the priority column is now included in several of the Workorder reports.

A new Tenant Status filter has been added in the Tenant List Workarea. This allows you to limit the list of tenants to "All", "Current", "Potential", "Evicted", etc. Tenant Statuses.

A spellchecker is available for all emails (body) as well as on select fields.

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• New Date of Birth Field for the Tenant
• New Email field for the Vendor
• Added phone number to the vendor printout
• Payment Type Combobox is now sorted
• Changed the button "Add" to "Get" on the Invoices/Receipts Payment Table
• The word "Information" has been removed from many of the reports as it is considered redundant
• Autofill fields are now case insensitive (for example if you type in "hollywood", it will now also pick up "Hollywood".)
• The Popup Calendar now provides support for dates up to 120 years ahead and in the past versus the standard 20 years from the previous version
• The graph type selection is saved for each report so that you only need to set it once
• Added a confirmation message on database restore to verify this is the action the user wanted
• The Payment Type field has now been added into the Scheduled and Suggested Accounting Entries
• Suggested Accounting entries are now only calculated when the Suggested Accounting Entries Tabbed Panel becomes visible instead of any time an update is done in the main Accounting List Workarea to enhance overall performance on other actions
• If a backup request fails on an upgrade or system shutdown, the system will now ask if you want to try again rather than moving on in to the next step (upgrading or completing the shutdown)
• You can now delete a tenant if it's only associated to a building and/or unit, this is no longer considered a referential issue within the database
• Increased the potential maximum size of memory that can be allocated to LandlordMax for performance reasons.
• Increased the size of the Comments box on the workorder data entry screen.
• Moved up Invoices/Receipts buttons to put all data entry screens at the top (moved down reports).
• Changed the order of the Invoices and Receipts menus to make them easier to read within the application.
• Added a warning message when you try to restore a newer database so that you don't make an accidental mistake
• Improved the database backup before upgrading message.
• Added a bit more details to the error reports.
• Updated several icons
• Changed the names of the report titles to the plural rather than "Complete Tenant List", etc. for the table printouts only.
• Qif file formats that are invalid (the Qif file format doesn't support dates before 2000) will now display an error message rather than try to send a system failure error report.
• Databases from versions older than 2.12 (1.08, 1.02, and 1.00) which use the old database engine will no longer be supported. These will now need to be upgraded by contacting LandlordMax at support@landlordmax.com.

• LandlordMax now fully supports all Locale settings rather than just US based locales
• Fixed a bug where on rare occasions the scheduled entries could process for long periods at 99% complete
• Fixed a bug where the filters from autofill fields where not always immediately listed
• Fixed a bug where the wait cursor would remain when you tried to accept a suggested accounting entry but then decided not to
• Fixed a bug where the date format preference was set but in a few rare places it didn't acknowledge it until the software was restarted
• Fixed a bug where now you can no longer save a unit without first assigning that unit to a building
• The report "List all units for a building" can no longer be generated without first selecting a building

The internal database is now significantly further compacted/compressed as part of the database backup process.

• Fixed an upgrade bug (only occurs when upgrading) that could cause issues with the tenant data if at least a tenant from the previous version (3.11f) had an email associated to it, and that email also met a specific set of criteria. Although very rare, if all the specific criteria were met, it could cause damage to the tenant information. If you do encounter this error while upgrading, please upgrade to version 6.05a and then "Restore" your database from your pre-upgraded backup database. This will complete resolve the issue and your data. If you're unsure how to do this, or what this means, please contact us at support@landlordmax.com and we would be more than happy to further assist you.
  If you've already upgraded and not encountered this issue (ie. you had no tenants with emails that meet both specific criteria), then no further action is required, you are not affected (please note it is extremely rare, so the odds of encountering this bug are very very low, and if you do, it will be immediately apparent).
• Fixed a bug which caused Scheduled Entries to be saved when the popup dialog was closed by pressing on the "X" (the close window button). This could result in a processing bug for Suggested Entries if no Start Date was entered in the popup dialog.
• Fixed a bug for the report "Accounting Entries for a category for a tenant". The pie chart option has now been removed since it's not applicable and could cause the program to error.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't print an individual accounting entry without first saving it.
• Fixed a bug with images that have Invalid ICC Profile Data. This is a bug within the programming language and not LandlordMax, therefore images with this issue are no longer allowed to be saved withing the software.

LandlordMax is now FULLY MAC COMPATIBLE! This includes the latest Mac OS Snow Leopard

• Added tenant phone numbers to Late rents report.
• The Categories tabbed panel in the Accounting Workarea now has the rows color coded according to the type of category (red for expenses and green for revenues).

• Fixed the report "List of expiring leases grouped by building for one landlord" when a Start/End Date was entered which could cause the software to error.
• Fixed a bug on the reports where the totals column would render the incorrect color (the amounts are always correct, only the color could sometimes be incorrect).
• Fixed a bug on qif files that were imported with accounting categories that contained apostophes.
• Fixed a bug when verifying a backed up database as part of the backup process when the file extension wasn't included.
• Fixed a bug where that could occur if you created an invoice without selecting a tenant and then later tried to edit it.
• Added gray column header to the "Late Rents" report.

All data entry fields have been widened to better fit the minimum screen size of 1024x768 (and higher). This means that the description fields, date fields, etc. have more room before the field starts scrolling.

Adjusted the default sorting order on the following reports from Date Due only to Date Due, then Building, and then Unit:

• Rent Roll
• Rent Roll for a building
• Lease Expiration
• Lease Expiration for a building
• Late rents
• Late accounting entries

Adjusted the text on the upgrade notice popup window to inform the user which upgrades are included in the year of free upgrades and which upgrades would require an upgrade license purchase at a 50% discount.

• Fixed a bug where the report "Late accounting entries for a tenant" would fail to initial load the screen in some instances.
• Fixed the auto-select on the tenant comboboxes so that if you type in a letter, it will select that tenant.
• Fixed a bug where the lease information didn't always save the first time a Tenant was saved.
• Fixed a bug where the mortgage information didn't always save the first time a Building was saved.
• Fixed a bug where the full date couldn't displayed within the date fields on the Mac only (ie. required scrolling).
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the look and feel of the application to revert when the calendar popup dialog window would appear.
• Fixed a bug where the stacktrace wasn't always logged to the llmax.log file.
• Fixed a bug where adding too large a year (such as 20094) in the Date fields would cause an error.