Questions owners ask.
What Sahab Key costs, what your tenants pay, how rent reaches your bank, and how to get set up. If your question is not here, email us and a person answers.
Frequently asked questions
What does Sahab Key cost?
Fifty dollars a month is the minimum, and it covers up to 25 units. Above 25 units it is two dollars per unit per month, so 40 units is $80. No setup fees and no contracts. Optional add-ons are flat monthly prices: AI Insights is $49, lease e-signature is $15, online rental applications are $29, and the public API is $49. Portfolios past 200 units get Enterprise pricing: contact us and we will build a plan around what you manage.
What do my tenants pay?
Rent, plus, where permitted, the card or bank processing fee shown to them at checkout. You receive the full rent amount.
How does rent reach my bank?
Each building connects its own Stripe payout account, and rent for that building is transferred to it after the payment clears. One building's money never mixes with another's. A building cannot collect rent until its payout account is connected.
Can I switch from spreadsheets or another platform?
Yes. You add buildings, units, leases, and tenants in the app, then send invites. Setup is quick: no data-import project, no onboarding fee. If you get stuck, email us and a person answers.
Does it track Section 8 payments?
Yes. Sahab Key tracks housing authority payments separately from tenant rent and reconciles them against the right charges. Sahab Key does not receive, hold, or disburse housing authority funds. You record the authority's payment and Sahab Key reconciles it.
What is AI Insights?
An optional add-on that reads your own portfolio data, your payments, maintenance, and leases, to inform you. You get a risk read on each tenant built from their payment history with you, a portfolio assistant you can ask in plain English, automatic maintenance triage, a drafted monthly owner report, and a six-month cash flow forecast with confidence bands. It is advisory: it surfaces and drafts, you decide and send. It is $49 a month for the whole organization. AI-assisted features can be inaccurate or incomplete; verify anything important before relying on it.
Can I take rental applications?
Yes, as a $29 a month add-on for the whole organization. You invite an applicant, they fill in a profile and upload the documents you ask for, they pay the application fee you set, and your team reviews and decides in the app. The fee is yours, paid to your own account. Sahab Key does not offer tenant screening, so there are no background, credit, identity, income, or fraud checks.
Can I give building owners their own access?
Yes. Ask us to enable investor payouts, and each building can route its rent to its owner's own account, so one building's money never mixes with another's. Invite the owners you report to, set each one's share, and they get a read-only portal with statements, payout history, occupancy, and open maintenance counts for their building. It is deliberately narrow: they see their building's numbers, not tenant identities, and they can change nothing.