{"id":307,"date":"2014-06-26T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2015-07-03T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:04:32","slug":"manage-rent-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/manage-rent-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"Manage Rent Arrears with text messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Managing Rent Arrears with tenants is a difficult task for Housing Associations and rental agents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text messaging<\/strong> gives you an additional management tool and means of communicating directly with tenants to prompt the resolution of outstanding rents.<\/p>\n<p>We have many clients in the Housing Association and Rental Agent community who use text messaging and Text-Connect in this application and report that it is a vital tool in minimising rent arrears.<\/p>\n<p>Critically, with Text-Connect you are able to communicate directly with individual tenants, yet our <a title=\"Mail Merge Text Messaging.\" href=\"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/mail-merge-text-messaging\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;mail-merge&#8217; and bulk text messaging<\/a> features mean that it&#8217;s a quick &amp; simple task to <a title=\"Send text messages from your computer.\" href=\"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/options_long_text_messages.php\" target=\"_blank\">send a personalised text<\/a> to large numbers of tenants.<\/p>\n<p>You can monitor undelivered messages with our <a title=\"Text message delivery - reporting.\" href=\"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/options_sms-text_reporting.php\" target=\"_blank\">reporting functions<\/a> and because the message is sent directly to the tenants mobile phone,\u00a0 you can be confident that your message will be read.<\/p>\n<p>Text-Connect clients using the system to manage rent arrears confirm that it&#8217;s an extremely effective tool.<\/p>\n<p>Our clients typically use our <a title=\"Business text messaging\" href=\"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/packages_sms_small_business.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Business Package&#8217;<\/a> and we have a <a title=\"Reducing rent arrears using text messaging. \" href=\"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/cs_text_rent_arrears.php\" target=\"_blank\">Rent Arrears case study<\/a> covering the practical use of the system <a title=\"Rent Arrears\" href=\"http:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/cs_text_rent_arrears.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Rent Arrears with tenants is a difficult task for Housing Associations and rental agents. Text messaging gives you an additional management tool and means of communicating directly with tenants to prompt the resolution of outstanding rents. We have many &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/manage-rent-arrears\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[34,26,29,59,31,77,10,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-connect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}