TenantAudit: Features, Pricing, Integrations & AI Visibility

TenantAudit is automated tenant-file audit software for LIHTC, Section 8, HOME and tax-exempt bond properties. The record describes income-violation detection, tenant income certification validation, recertification tracking with expiration alerts, and document management across 13 or more document types, with imports from Yardi Voyager, RealPage OneSite, MRI Bostonpost and Excel or CSV. It is the one vendor in the category of compliance tools for subsidized housing that publishes a price, and its homepage states the risk it sells against in one line: a single Form 8823 finding can trigger recapture of federal tax credits going back up to ten years.

Who it fits

The record tags affordable housing, and the homepage lists four buyers: property owners, housing finance agencies, tax credit investors and syndicators, and third-party compliance consultants. The owner-side buyer is a compliance team that wants a machine to read every file rather than a sample, at a cost that makes reading every file affordable. The consultant buyer is a review firm using it to work faster. The agency and investor buyer is checking the owner’s work.

The buyer it does not fit is the operator whose problem is the monthly HUD voucher rather than the file. TenantAudit audits certifications; it does not describe preparing 50059s or transmitting to TRACS, and the service bureaus in the category do that.

Pricing

Published, and alone in the category for it. Plans start at $49 a month with a free trial. The homepage also states that its automated audits cost $0.50 to $1.00 per file against $150 to $300 per file for manual review. Read the second pair of figures as the vendor’s framing of the alternative and check it against your own invoices, but the $49 figure is real and the trial means you can run your own files before paying.

Ask what the $49 plan includes in files, properties and users, where the next tier starts, and whether the per-file figure is a separate charge on top of the subscription or a description of the effective cost. Ask whether a file re-audited after corrections counts twice.

Integrations

The record lists Yardi, RealPage and MRI, sourced from the vendor’s homepage, which names the products as Yardi Voyager, RealPage OneSite and MRI Bostonpost, plus Excel and CSV. That covers the three affordable PMS modules most institutional operators run, and it means a portfolio with files in two systems after an acquisition can audit both in one place. The Yardi, RealPage and MRI integration pages cover the other categories on each system.

Ask whether the import is a scheduled connection or a file you export and upload, because the homepage says imports and the difference is a person’s afternoon every month. An operator on ResMan, Entrata, Rent Manager or AppFolio is on the CSV path and should ask what the template looks like.

Each of those three PMS vendors sells its own affordable module, and Yardi’s includes file review. Ask TenantAudit what its audit catches that the native check does not, on your files.

Limitations and questions to ask

Start with what an audit finds. Ask for the list of checks it runs on a certification, which income and asset rules it applies by program, and where the calculations stand against the current HOTMA guidance. Ask how it handles a property that carries LIHTC and project-based Section 8 at once, with two sets of rules on one household.

Then what happens with a finding. Ask whether the software explains the finding in terms a site manager can act on, whether it tracks the correction, and whether the corrected file and the audit history are stored together for the recapture window.

Then the recertification tracking. Ask how far ahead the expiration alerts fire, who receives them, and whether they respect the different cycles across programs.

Then the humans. Automated review is not the same as a compliance professional reading the file, and a state monitor or investor may still want a signed review. Ask whether TenantAudit works with a review firm, or whether you keep one.

Alternatives

The category’s vendor list puts all eleven side by side. The service comparison is Preferred Compliance Solutions, where compliance professionals review the file through a portal and publish their turnaround. The platform-plus-services comparison is Pronto Housing, which is aimed at AppFolio operators and publishes no price.

AI visibility

The Index will measure this category when a prompt set is approved, and this profile carries no number until then.