Your first building

A building is the thing everything else hangs off. Units belong to it, costs are allocated across it, and compliance deadlines are counted from it.

Add the building

You need an address and a name. The name is yours to choose: if the deed says "Residentie Ter Linden" and you call it "the Ghent block", call it the Ghent block. Dardaris uses your name for it everywhere, in the briefing and in reports, and keeps the legal name on the record for documents that need it.

Set the jurisdiction while you are there. It decides deposit caps, notice periods and how indexation is calculated, and it is easier to set now than to correct across six leases later. See jurisdictions.

Add the units

A unit is anything that can be let on its own: an apartment, a shop, a room in a co-living arrangement, a parking space, a storage box. Give each one a reference you would actually say out loud, because that is what appears in a work order and in a tenant's message.

For each unit, the useful minimum is:

• the type, so the right lease templates are offered
• the floor area, which service charge allocation keys need
• the EPC rating, which some jurisdictions use to block or cap indexation

What can wait

Meters, keys, inventories, valuations and mortgages can all be filled in later, and nothing is blocked while they are empty. Dardaris will ask for a meter reading the first time it needs one, rather than making you sit through a form before you have let anything.

Costs against the building can go in from day one. See expenses and supplier invoices.

Next

Put a tenant in it: your first lease.