Revenue
Payroll & Contracts
Maintenance & Make Ready
Marketing & General Admin
Misc. Budget Knowledge
100

Goal of Maximum Rents achieved if 100% occupied

What is Gross Market Rent?

100

Largest Controllable Operating Expense

What is Payroll?

100

This term describes the cost to prepare a unit for a new resident after move-out

What is a Make Ready Cost?
100

Apartment List, Apartments.com, Zillow are all these

What are ILSs?

100

Codes that are used for Deferred Maintenance

What are the 6000s & 8000s?

200

The three categories of Revenue

What are Rental Income, Other Income, and Utility Recovery?

200

Typical month for merit increases

What is March?

200

Tools used to assist in predicting maintenance costs.

What is the T12 and Budget Comparison?

200

Costs associate from leases received from Apartment List or Zillow are known as 

What are ILS Pay Per Lease?

200

Predicting Tool that is also used a the starting point for the new budget

What is the reforecast budget?
300

This negative income is due to past due rental balances?

What is bad debt?

300

Payroll taxes, Insurance, worker's comp, etc. are all a part of this

What is Burden?

300

Lightbulbs, face plates, batteries, filters, etc. go into these respective categories

What are Supplies?

300

This cost may be included when hosting resident events or community outreach.

What is Resident Retention or Resident Events?
300

Tool to track past utility spends & predict future spends

What is the Conservice Budget Tool?

400

Utility Income is also known as 

What is Recovery?

400

Recurring Expense that doesn't change Month over Month

What is a contract expense?

400

Make Ready Costs are budgeted based on this

What are Occupancy and Move Ins/Move Outs?
400

This recurring cost includes licensing or subscriptions for accounting, leasing, or property management software.

What are Software Costs?

400

Average occupancy for DFW in 2025

What is 88.5%?

500

Difference between market rents and in place rents

What is LTL/GTL?

500

Top 3 items that fall under contract services

What are landscaping, Fire/Office Alarm, Office Cleaning?

500

This is the average cost range you might budget per unit annually for ongoing maintenance

What is $300-$500/unit for a stabilized asset?

500

Office Utilities that fall under General Admin and not Utility Services

What are telephone and internet services?

500

Financial Marker to notate property monetary performance

What is NOI (net operating income)?