Features · Knox AI

Everything Knox does for the owner.

DoorVault is the asset platform for investors who use property managers. Knox reads every document, reconciles every statement against your bank, tracks the money across every manager, and keeps you tax ready. Every feature below is on every plan, including free.

56 document types read Read only, never holds your money Every feature on every plan
· What DoorVault is

The owner side of the property manager relationship.

Your manager runs the building on Buildium, AppFolio, or RentManager. DoorVault runs the asset above them: it ingests the statements they produce, checks them against your bank, and gives you one honest view of performance and risk across every manager you use.

Direct answer

DoorVault is real estate asset management software for investors who use property managers. Knox reads every owner statement and document, reconciles each statement against the deposit that hits your bank, audits manager fees for errors, tracks NOI, equity, and return across every manager, and exports Schedule E. It is read only and never holds your money. Stessa and Baselane are built for landlords who self manage. Buildium and AppFolio are built for the manager. DoorVault is built for the owner who oversees rather than operates.

Capability DoorVaultowner-side asset management Stessa & Baselaneself-managed bookkeeping Buildium & AppFolioproperty-manager software
Reads and books owner statements line by line YesKnox reads 56 document types No Nothey produce the statement
Reconciles statements against your bank deposits Yes No No
Audits manager fees and flags anomalies Yes No No
One portfolio across multiple managers YesRentManager, Buildium, AppFolio Partial No
Deal underwriting, BRRR, and DSCR Yes No No
Independent books, never holds your money Yesread only Partial Noholds the trust account
N°01 Knox AI & document intelligence

Read like an analyst, booked like an accountant.

Knox reads the paper so you do not have to. It extracts the facts, and deterministic code posts the ledger, so the AI can never invent a dollar. Every entry links back to its source page.

Knox Inbox

Forward any document to your private Knox address. Knox files it, creates the transactions, and links the PDF to the right property before you have opened the reply.

56 document types

Closing disclosures, leases, owner statements, insurance policies, tax bills, loan documents, invoices, receipts, and inspections. Specific contracts for the common ones, a reasoning catch all for the rest.

Knox Night Watch

Every night Knox verifies statements against deposits, hunts duplicate charges, and watches deadlines, then leaves you a morning brief with the evidence attached and the manager question drafted.

Knox Chat

Ask your portfolio anything in plain English and get the answer with the math shown. Need a change? Knox proposes it and nothing touches your books until you approve.

Audit trail & one click revert

Every Knox action is logged with the source, a confidence reading, and a single click to undo. Knox shows its work, always.

Batch upload & onboarding

Drop in a year of paper at once. Knox classifies, orders, and books it in dependency aware waves, then assembles your portfolio from the trail.

N°02 Property manager oversight

Verify what your manager reports, without rebuilding the month.

The wedge no one else fills. DoorVault reconciles every owner statement against the cash that actually moved, so a short payout or a quiet fee bump cannot hide in a plausible net deposit.

Statement to bank reconciliation

Knox matches each statement line to your bank deposits and surfaces the gap the moment one comes in short or a charge looks duplicated.

PM Report Card

A running scorecard on each manager: payout timeliness, fee accuracy, statement completeness, and the issues Knox has caught over time.

Fee benchmarking

Knox checks the management fee against your agreement and against the cycle it was earned in, so a lagged or off percentage fee gets flagged, not absorbed.

PM overview dashboard

Every manager in one pane: properties, payouts, fees, and open questions, so you can spot an owner affecting issue before it escalates.

Drafted manager questions

When Knox finds a discrepancy it writes the plain, specific message to send your manager, with the numbers and the evidence already in it.

PM statement import

Forward the statement or sync the portal once. Knox books every line item and files the PDF to the property, in seconds instead of an hour.

N°03 Portfolio financials

NOI, equity, and return across the whole book.

One ledger across every property, entity, and manager. The numbers are the hero: monospace figures, signed deltas, no chart junk.

Portfolio dashboard

Portfolio NOI, monthly cash flow, total equity, and cash on cash, recalculated across every property and manager in real time.

Per property & per entity P&L

Profit and loss the way taxes and lenders want it, broken out by property and by LLC, not one undifferentiated pile.

Cash flow waterfall

See where every dollar goes from gross rent to net distribution, with management fees, reserves, and debt service laid out in order.

Equity tracker & projections

Real time equity, LTV, and appreciation, with projections so you can plan a refinance or a sale before the window closes.

Basic & Expert views

Start simple, reveal the depth when you want it. Complexity is a preference, not a paywall, on every plan.

Monthly digest

A short, plain monthly email: what changed, what Knox verified, and the few decisions only you can make.

N°04 Tax & entities

Tax ready before tax season starts.

Because Knox books your statements and documents as they arrive, the categories and splits are already done. The export is a click, not a project.

Schedule E export

Five CPA ready formats on every plan, including free. Transactions are auto created from PM statements, so there is no re-entry before you export.

Mortgage splitting

Enter the total payment once. Principal, interest, and escrow are split automatically every month, every door, for a clean Schedule E.

Amortization & depreciation

Loan amortization and 27.5 year depreciation schedules tracked automatically, so the deductible pieces are always current.

Multi LLC & trust management

Entities are first class objects with their own properties, P&L, Schedule E, and EIN, cleanly separated for tax and reporting.

CPA collaboration portal

Give your accountant scoped access to the books and exports they need, without emailing spreadsheets back and forth.

Receipt & invoice capture

Snap or forward a receipt and Knox reads the vendor, amount, and category, then books it to the right property.

N°05 Deals & capital strategy

Underwrite the next one with the same brain.

The asset platform does not stop at the properties you own. Knox helps you decide what to buy, hold, or sell, and how the capital behind it is working.

Deal underwriting

IDEAL scoring with hard gates and a ROCKET, STEADY, or SLOW velocity rating, so a deal that does not pencil is obvious before you commit.

BRRR tracker

Pipeline view with phase management and capital velocity, so you know how fast your money is recycling across the strategy.

Equity & DSCR

Real time DSCR and LTV per property and across the book, so a refinance or a lender conversation is backed by current numbers.

IBC capital strategy

Track whole life and IUL policy loops against your real estate returns. A capital view unique to DoorVault.

1031 deadline tracking

45 day and 180 day countdowns with alerts, so a swap never quietly becomes a taxable event.

Property enrichment

Knox pulls market context and public records so a new property arrives with rent, value, and neighborhood data already attached.

N°06 Compliance & operations

The deadlines and edge cases, watched.

Section 8, renewals, inspections, insurance, appliances. The operational details that cost money when they slip, tracked structurally instead of in your head.

Section 8 & HAP

HAP versus tenant portions, fair market rent limits, voucher tracking, and HQS inspection deadlines, structured the way Section 8 actually works.

Renewal & expiration tracking

Lease renewals, insurance terms, and document expirations surfaced before they lapse, not after.

Appliance responsibility

Track which appliances belong to you versus the tenant, with age and warranty, so a replacement decision is informed.

Property health check

A quick read on each property: occupancy, reserves, open issues, and anything Knox thinks deserves your attention.

Insurance tracking

Policies, carriers, and renewal dates per property, so coverage gaps and lapses get caught early.

Investor sharing

Give partners and lenders a clean, read only window into the properties or entities that concern them.

N°07 Connections & trust

Connected to everything, in control of itself.

DoorVault reads from where your data already lives, and it is read only by design, so connecting it never puts your money at risk.

PM portal sync

One click owner portal sync for RentManager, Buildium, and AppFolio, unified into a single ledger.

Bank feeds

Connect your accounts to reconcile deposits and expenses against what your manager reports.

Cloud storage sync

Point Knox at a Dropbox or Google Drive folder and new documents book themselves as they land.

AI assistant connectors

Look up a deal or a Section 8 rent right inside your AI assistant through the DoorVault connector, plus a REST API for everything else.

Read only & encrypted

Encrypted storage, passwordless login, and team access controls. DoorVault never holds or moves your money.

Import what you have

Bring a portfolio in fast with bulk property import and CSV or Stessa import, so switching is a morning, not a migration.

· Questions investors ask

How DoorVault works, answered.

What documents can DoorVault read?
Knox reads 56 real estate document types, including property manager owner statements, closing disclosures, leases, insurance policies, tax bills, loan documents, invoices, receipts, and inspection reports. You forward an email, upload a file, or sync a folder, and Knox extracts the facts and books the ledger. Deterministic code posts every entry, so the AI can never invent a dollar, and each entry links back to the source page.
How does DoorVault reconcile property manager statements?
Knox reads each owner statement line by line, books the rent, repairs, fees, and reserves, then reconciles the statement total against the deposit that actually reached your bank. When a deposit comes in short, a charge looks duplicated, or a management fee does not match your agreement, Knox flags it with the evidence attached and drafts the question for your manager. Nothing posts until you approve.
Does DoorVault connect to RentManager, Buildium, and AppFolio?
Yes. DoorVault syncs owner portal data from RentManager, Buildium, and AppFolio into one ledger, so NOI, cash flow, equity, and return are calculated across your whole book rather than one portal at a time. Every manager reports in a different format, and Knox normalizes them so the portfolio number is finally comparable across managers.
Does DoorVault prepare Schedule E?
DoorVault exports Schedule E in five CPA ready formats on every plan, including free. Because Knox creates transactions automatically from your PM statements and documents, your books are already categorized and split when tax season comes, so there is no manual re-entry before the export. Per entity Schedule E is supported for multi LLC portfolios.
How does DoorVault handle multiple LLCs?
LLCs and trusts are first class objects in DoorVault. Each entity carries its own properties, profit and loss, Schedule E, and document set, with EIN storage, so a multi entity portfolio stays cleanly separated for tax and reporting. You see both the per entity view and the consolidated portfolio view.
What does DoorVault not do?
DoorVault does not collect rent, screen tenants, or run maintenance. Your property manager does that, on Buildium, AppFolio, or RentManager. DoorVault is owner side and read only. It never holds your money. It sits above your manager and audits the numbers, so your books stay independent of whoever operates the building.
Is my data secure with DoorVault?
DoorVault uses encrypted storage, passwordless login, and team access controls, and the platform is read only by design, so it never holds or moves your money. It connects to read statements and bank activity, then verifies that what your manager reports matches what actually moved. Every Knox action is logged with evidence and one click revert.
Does every DoorVault plan include every feature?
Yes. Knox document intelligence, PM statement reconciliation, deal underwriting, capital tools, and everything else are on every plan, including the free tier. Plans differ only by how many properties you track and how many Knox credits you get each month. Nothing is gated behind a higher tier.
Can DoorVault catch my property manager's fee errors automatically?
Yes. Knox checks every management fee against your agreement and the cycle it was earned in, so a lagged or off-percentage fee is flagged with the math instead of disappearing into a plausible net deposit. The PM Report Card keeps a running score on each manager's fee accuracy and payout timeliness, and any duplicate or mismatched charge is surfaced during the nightly reconciliation.
Does DoorVault handle Section 8 HAP payments and inspections?
Yes. DoorVault tracks the HAP portion versus the tenant portion, fair market rent limits, voucher status, and HQS inspection deadlines, structured the way Section 8 actually works. When a HAP payment posts short or an inspection is coming due, Knox flags it, so a missed recertification or a short housing authority payment does not slip by.
How does DoorVault split my mortgage payment for Schedule E?
Enter the total payment once and DoorVault splits it into principal, interest, and escrow automatically, every month and every door, using the loan's amortization schedule. Your Schedule E then shows deductible mortgage interest cleanly separated from principal and escrow, with no manual line by line entry.
Can my CPA access my books in DoorVault?
Yes. The CPA collaboration portal gives your accountant scoped access to the books and the Schedule E exports they need, in five CPA ready formats, so you stop emailing spreadsheets back and forth. Because Knox has already booked and categorized your statements through the year, the export is ready at tax time rather than a January scramble.

Start with the paper you already have.

Free for 2 properties, every feature included, no credit card. Forward one statement and watch Knox do the rest.