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KEEP IT SIMPLE SYSTEMS
P. O. Box 510093
Melbourne Beach, Florida 32951
Thank you for trying our Rental Property Management program SIMPLE_RENT.
SIMPLE_RENT is intended to replace our earlier RENTALS (formerly LANDLORD)
shareware. The program has been completely rewritten to accommodate as many
suggested improvements as was possible including:
All Tenant transactions bring up a Menu of Current Tenants
Tenant Data automatically inserted into tenant transactions screens
Record Period can begin/end on any date (not just calendar years)
Records can be maintained continuously over several years
European DD/MM/YY, DD.MM.YY, DD-MM-YY, etc. date format available
Old records can be periodically de-activated from system
General Ledger formats: Totals Only (P&L), Single Line, or Complete
Single Categories can be Printed Or Displayed
Paging Backward and Forward in all Reports
Property/Unit Identifiers can be ANY 5 characters (or less)
Tenant tracking allows moves between units, name changes, returns
Delinquent Account display/print with status and last payment data
Lease tracking with status and warnings of pending expiration
Check Register
Check Numbers can now have any eight characters
Print or Display Complete Tenant Account History
Print or Display Last 45 Days Tenant Account Activity
Print all Tenant Statements at one time within specified date range
Statements are Laid Out so can be folded into a window envelope
Print Labels for Single Tenant or All Tenants
Print/Display Tenant Location (by Last Name or by Property/Unit)
Print/Display List of All Properties by ID and their addresses
Press F8 Key to return to Main Menu from anywhere in system
Escape Key returns to Previous Menu and interrupts any function
Many, many other additions and enhancements
Minimum system is a single-drive PC-clone (color or monochrome) and 640K RAM.
A hard drive is recommended for speed and more units but is NOT required.
Users of our RENTALS and LANDLORD property management shareware can
automatically convert their existing data to SIMPLE_RENT format without
retyping by requesting our free CONVERT program when registering. The
CONVERT program also allows assigning new Property and Unit identifiers of
any five characters to replace the two digits used by RENTALS/LANDLORD.
Currently registered RENTALS/LANDLORD users should contact us directly for a
special update offer.
*------------------------*
To allow the program and a full year's data to fit on a single 360K
floppy the shareware version manages a maximum of ten rental units. There
are no other limitations, disabled functions, tricks, or gotcha's.
As a precaution it is wise to make a working copy of the original disk
and put the original in a safe place after placing a write-protect tab over
the notch on the edge of the original diskette.
For a summary of commands (with examples) please refer to the file
QUICKREF.DOC on this disk.
For demonstration purposes a sample database containing transaction
information from 1989 and 1990 is included with the shareware program. You
may add, edit, display or delete these transactions as you wish. The best
way to learn the system is to experiment with each of the Menus and examine
the results of the various reports. One of the goals in this system was to
make massive documentation unnecessary by making the system intuitive. As
the system is entirely menu-driven it is also self-explanatory.
To use SIMPLE_RENT with your own data, make a new subdirectory (any new
name of 8 letters or less is okay) and copy only the file SR.EXE to that
sub-directory. Change to the new sub-directory and type SR followed by an
ENTER keystroke and SIMPLE_RENT will install itself.
EXAMPLE: (assuming you and SR.EXE are currently in directory C:\FOO>)
C:\FOO> MD \BAR <ENTER>
C:\FOO> COPY SR.EXE \BAR
C:\FOO> CD \BAR <ENTER>
C:\BAR> SR <ENTER>
(Refer to QUICKREF.DOC for sample first entries in the system.)
If your computer doesn't show the working (or current) sub-directory as
part of screen prompt (to the left of the flashing cursor), enter the
command PROMPT $P$G at the DOS prompt. If this command is not already in
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file it should be placed there.
*------------------------*
You should examine your CONFIG.SYS file to verify that the following
lines are present somewhere in the file:
FILES=20
BUFFERS=20
You can do this at the DOS prompt by typing TYPE CONFIG.SYS followed by an
ENTER keystroke. It is okay if the FILES and BUFFERS lines have numbers
greater than 20 but they should be at least 20. If you have DOS version 3.3
or greater (type VER at the DOS prompt to find out) you may want to increase
these numbers to 30 or 50 each.
If you encounter an error message with a "(4)" displayed you do not have
the numbers set high enough. If you have a number of resident files (which
you call up with various 'Hot-Keys') you may need to increase the number to
100 or higher, but this decreases the amount of system memory available for
your programs. Alternately, you may be better off making a substitute
version of your CONFIG.SYS file with just the above two lines in it provided
your knowledge of computers is sufficient to do it without getting into
trouble. Remember to save the old CONFIG.SYS file (or just rename it) so
you don't wipe out something of value. The RENAME command will not allow
you to rename a file to CONFIG.SYS if a file of the same name is already
present.
If you do not have any CONFIG.SYS file on your system you can use the
sample on this disk (CONFIG.SAM) by copying it to your root (top)
directory (or boot disk) and renaming with the REN command it to CONFIG.SYS.
The root directory is represented by the backslash '\' character.
Example: COPY CONFIG.SAM \ <ENTER>
REN \CONFIG.SAM CONFIG.SYS <ENTER>
Press RESET button or (Ctrl-Alt-Delete) to reboot. You must reboot before
any changes made to the CONFIG.SYS file will take effect.
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To print this file use COPY READ.ME PRN <Enter>
Kindest regards,
ELLIOTT K. RAND
President