ANAHEIM, CA—Mobility in real estate is becoming increasinglymore necessary and prevalent, as GlobeSt.com recently reported. Enter CommonAreas, a new mobile app that allows property managers tonote, manage and track clearly and simply property-managementsituations that need attention.

Developed by Casey Rue, COO atMarketplace Properties, a small boutiquedeveloper of shopping centers forthe last 45 years, and CEO of the firm Common Areas, the app takesthe place of clipboards, paperwork and endless emails and follow-uptime by allowing property managers to see problems through tosolutions all in one place. Rue, who has real estate experience inacquisitions and property management, tellsGlobeSt.com, “I've always thought it's been brain damage trying toget work done when managing properties. You use a clipboard, aniPhone and text, but there could be 50 differentthings going on with any given property at any given time.Communicating via email, voicemail, fax and letters; finding theissues by walking the property, then going back to the office todisseminate the information takes forever.”

Rue hired a team of software developers and an interfacedesigner to develop Common Areas, which has been in beta mode forthe last three years and is currently available on theiTunes store. He says the key to the app'ssimplicity and effectiveness is communication. “People can dopretty much anything if they can communicate it correctly. Problemsare mostly based on lack of communication. It comes down to theproject: something didn't get done right, and the people involvedthought different things. This tool makes it really easy foranybody to identify an issue and communicate it in a way that'seasy.”