CRE8 min readApril 8, 2026
CAM reconciliation at scale without spreadsheets
Year-end CAM true-ups reduced from 3 weeks of spreadsheet wrangling to 3 hours of review. How Valix posts tenant charges atomically.
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Featured12 min readApril 15, 2026
Yardi to Valix in 4 days — the full playbook
What happens Monday-through-Thursday when you move a 450-unit portfolio off Yardi Voyager, documented with the actual reconciliation artifacts.
Accounting10 min readMarch 28, 2026
Why we chose integer-cents over floating-point for the GL
A field report on why every property-management GL should use integer-cent precision — and what rounding drift looks like on a $50M portfolio after 3 years.
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AI14 min readMarch 21, 2026
Confidence scoring for AI lease extraction
How we calibrated our lease scanner so the green/amber/red badges actually mean something. A technical walk-through with real samples.
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Investor9 min readMarch 14, 2026
Waterfall distributions for mid-market syndicators
Preferred, catch-up, carry — with unlimited tiers and IRR hurdles. How Valix traces every LP distribution back to the underlying GL entry.
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Investor11 min readMarch 7, 2026
Multi-entity consolidation without the spreadsheet chaos
Intercompany elimination is not optional for institutional reporting. Here's how Valix auto-generates the 4-line IC journal across 10+ SPVs.
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Investor7 min readFebruary 28, 2026
Pulling K-1s directly from the ledger
Tax-season doesn't have to mean spreadsheet gymnastics. How Valix's K-1 engine reads Box 1 ordinary income + Box 19 distributions from live GL.
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CRE6 min readFebruary 21, 2026
Percentage rent with natural and artificial breakpoints
A short primer on how retail percentage rent actually works — and why most PM systems get the breakpoint calculation subtly wrong at year-end.
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