Selling your AppFolio data to AI buyers

No buyer publishes a price list by industry. What they do publish is a range for a whole company: micro1, Polyshares and Ventra each advertise deals from roughly $100K to $2M or more, and Pewter's licensing partner cites examples between $350K and $650K. Read those as the buyers' own marketing figures, not offers.

For a AppFolio user of about 35 people, three things move the number most: how many years of history you have, how much of the work is written down in one place, and how cleanly client and employee details can be removed. Try the worth estimator for a range based on your size.

On Troveo's intake form, the closest category ("real estate or property") sits in the second of its four demand tiers, which it describes as above-average demand. Polyshares accepts real estate and property management, though it does not mark it as premium.

Some buyers pay us a referral fee. It never changes your price, and it never changes the order of our rankings.

1. 1Use AppFolio's reports to export work orders, communications logs and leasing activity.
2. 2Check your plan. Read-only API access starts on the Plus plan.
3. 3Save attachments and notes for the properties you plan to include.
4. 4Remove resident and applicant details before sharing anything.

• Monday: work orders created from resident texts.
• Tuesday: vendor notes added on completion.
• Wednesday: leasing notes after showings.
• Thursday: owner updates on a capital project.
• Friday: delinquency messages sent in bulk.

Illustrative. Multiply one week by every year you have kept, and that is the record a buyer is looking at. The written decisions matter more than the totals.

• Property management companies, the full guide
• Residential property management
• Commercial property management
• HOA management companies
• Buildium data

1. 1

   Check the fit

   Answer a few questions about headcount, years of records and the systems you use. No files change hands.

2. 2

   Inventory call

   A buyer walks through what you hold and what it wants. Most say the owner spends one to three hours in total.

3. 3

   Written offer

   Buyers usually send terms within days to two weeks: price, scope, term and whether the deal is exclusive.

4. 4

   Clean and deliver

   Personal details are removed under the agreed method, then a copy is exported. Your originals stay where they are.

A data license can sit alongside a sale or a wind-down. If you are selling the business, agree with the acquirer who keeps the right to license the archive. If you are closing down, keep the workspace and inboxes alive until a buyer has seen them. A closed company is not out of options: SimpleClosure reports more than 150 completed sales of shut-down startups' archives.