Guides for South African landlords

Plain-English guides for landlords who manage their own rentals.

• Rent escalation in South Africa: fixed percentage, CPI, and what your lease actually allows
  How annual rent increases work in SA residential leases — fixed-percentage vs CPI-linked escalations, what Stats SA's headline CPI is, and how to calculate the new rent without a dispute.
• Reconciling rent against your bank statement in ten minutes a month
  A repeatable month-end routine for self-managing landlords: references that match, a bank CSV export, matching payments to tenants, and what to do with the partial and the unknown ones.
• Rental deposits in South Africa: the rules landlords get wrong
  What the Rental Housing Act requires for a residential deposit — the interest-bearing account, the joint inspections, the itemised deductions and the refund deadlines — explained for self-managing landlords.
• Moving your rent roll from a spreadsheet into software without losing a month
  How to migrate an existing portfolio from Excel or Google Sheets into a property management app — what to bring, what to clean first, rebuilding rent history, and the import checklist.
• WhatsApp rent reminders that actually get paid (without souring the relationship)
  Timing, tone and wording for rent reminders on WhatsApp — the three-message sequence SA landlords use, with templates you can copy, and the line between a reminder and harassment.