What a difference a few years can make. As recently as 10 years ago, lease administrators typically reported to one manager and functioned largely as team support, spending the workday processing piles of paperwork and chasing down rent payments.

This final cautionary tale provides yet another example of how automated leasing software can greatly reduce the occurrence of making unnecessary payments on your lease.

This is yet another shocking account of an organization running lease management services without a software solution.

Our second cautionary tale in this eye-opening series reveals how a company missed out on $1 million during the acquisition of a new location. 

Following a five-year plan for expansion, a regional retail franchisee secured a second location in a neighboring city. Because the company only had one site in their portfolio they had grown confident and accustomed to utilizing spreadsheets for their lease management and accounting needs.

After procuring their new location the company wanted to invest in more expansion opportunities. To make their process more efficient hey started researching lease management solutions. After a few in-depth consultations, the franchisee learned something much more valuable than originally anticipated: They discovered $1,000,000 went missing during their acquisition!