ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software 10.0 has been updated and is available for current users to download.

Many changes have been made to this real estate investing software solution that users will find beneficial. Here are the most significant changes.

The Modifications

1. The unit mix menu in the Income and Rent Roll forms now includes a description label for “Retail”, “Office”, and “Warehouse.” In the past, the unit mix menu included selections more appropriate for multifamily properties such as “Studio”, “2/1″, etc. With this modification, users analyzing commercial properties now have a wider-range of selections and can select a more appropriate label to describe the type of unit configuration.

2. The Income form now allows ten unit entries. In the past, the Income form allowed just six entries. This allows the user to enter up to ten separate units or up to ten different types of unit configurations.

3. The Rent Roll has been modified to include additional columns for “tenant name”, “square footage”, “rent start date”, “rent end date”, and “date of last rent increase.”

4. An “Executive Summary” report has been added. This allows you to include more comments about the property and location of the property such as type of construction, utilities, parking, amenities, demographics, and so on.

5. You now can include your companies logo. The Executive Summary allows you to insert your company logo and include the names, phone numbers, and email addresses for up to assistants.

How to Obtain the Update

1. Login to your account from the ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software website using your email address and password

2. Download the update. ProAPOD version 10.0 must currently reside on your computer, and your membership subscription must be active. If your membership is not active, you can activate it from your customer account page.

Report Problems Immediately

Although much care has gone into this update, it was a major modification. If you detect any problems with this ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software 10.0 update, please report it immediately.

ProAPOD® Real estate Investment Software has just added a mortgage payment calculator to its site that will enable visitors to make mortgage payment calculations with a full amortization schedule.

The mortgage payment calculator is easy to use. Simply enter a loan amount, interest rate, and loan term then click Calculate. ProAPOD instantly computes a monthly payment and total interest amount for the full loan as well as creating a monthly amortization table that shows the principal, interest, and remaining loan balance after each loan payment.

You can try our new mortgage payment calculator at http://www.proapod.com/calculator/mortgage_payment_calculator.php

If you would like to include this mortgage payment calculator on your own website, please contact James R Kobzeff. We are happy to let you put it on your site, but we do want our footer information to remain intact.

Microsoft Vista has implemented stricter security settings that change the way users access folders and files on their computers and in the process did make things more complicated for ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software users.

Primarily, Vista’s default security setting prevents our real estate software users from saving their work, and in turn prompts an error message when attempting to Save As. This issue, of course, has been extremely frustrating, but not just for users of our software. Do a search for “Vista Read Only” and witness for yourself the countless inquiries and complaints made by Vista users on the web.

Why this problem with Vista? Microsoft attempted to make it more difficult for malware to access your folders and files but in this process (whether by design or oversight) also makes it more difficult for owners of those folders and files to access them.

After much research and some trial and error I discovered that the issue lies with the “permission” settings Vista applies to the folders by default, and the resolution is for the user to manually change those “permissions” in order to gain back the rightful control of those folders.

If you are currently using ProAPOD® Real Estate Investment Software on Windows Vista please read the following instructions to resolve the issue.

1. From your desktop right-click My Computer and then click Explore.
2. Click the plus (+) symbol on your C: drive to open the list of folders.
3. Scroll down to Program Files and click the plus (+) symbol to open the list of folders.
4. Locate and right-click the ProAPOD folder and then click Share…
5. Open the Security tab.
6. Under Group or user names click on Users. (Note in the Permssions for Users panel below that there are limited permissions; we want to achieve “Full control” for each group).
7. Double-click Edit.
8. Under Permissions for Users click Full control.
9. Click Apply and then click OK.

Result: ProAPOD will open normally (not as “Read Only”) and you can properly Save and Save As your files. If not, repeat these steps for each other group of names.

If you would like to read this article with screen shots please go to http://www.proapod.com/Articles/vista-perm.html