Hi all,
I am newbie and have x86 64 Linux machine and dont want anything propriety or in a cloud, im looking for something local stored and controlled by me only.

Im looking for a Property Inventory (+pics capability) condition report for Landlords/Tenants type of thing yet i dont seem to be able to find anything, if anyone knows of any such thing then i would be most grateful if you would let me know. Thanks

Open-source software tends not to exist for highly-specialized applications. This is because there is no money to be made.

Instead, open-source provides a rich set of tools that can be applied to many problems.

Your problem can be 95% solved by open-source databases, spreadsheet programs, image processors, document formatters, and programming languages. You will need to supply the remaining 5%.
Ed

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Got a Linux club-group in your area ? Some smart young geek can whip you up something pretty quick.
How many tenants ?. I mean... Something like a basic web page of your place (password protected)with an alphabetical list of all tenants would be fine.Each tenant would have a passwd for their page. You're admin and can view/modify all pages

Click a tenant.
Click photos of da crib
Click payment history(simple spread sheet)

Welcome to lalaland Inc.!
User name/ Pass. Here's YOUR page
Obviously if it's a complex of 500 tenants it's a fair amount of work for a few geeks.
A few buildings with a eight or a dozen each is a day or three of work.
Pre comp(1975) I ran a joint with 27 buildings. Eight tenants in each...All in file cabinets...Polaroids and copy machines etc.

https://sourceforge.net/software/ren...agement/linux/ for ones that may be close to no config.

The other choices tend to have a lot of config needed.

Peek at https://www.turnkeylinux.org/ odoo maybe for what may be available. You can build them if you wish as they should all be some version of open sourced.

KDE had a project that could be used but it has a steep learning curve. A slightly less so may be templates for Libre(open)office.

Windows programs might be used with wine/crossover office or such.

Things like Filemaker pro are quite powerful but if you can't get templates then you have to struggle with building it all.

To "liberate" filemaker you'd need a keygen....so I heard

Cloud, cloud, cloud... and not even for Linux? Well, a web UI that runs in a Linux browser is technically also for Linux.

That said, the first answer was spot on. There's really nothing to add.

Ref the first paragraph im confused as loads of opensource free software for all sorts of things, take "SweetHome3d" for example, free and open as well as too many other software to list which seems to negate your first paragraph?

idk what rich set of tools means nor where to get them?

whats a spreadsheet program and image processors and document format and language as this sounds good?
Thanks

idk what a Linux group is nor where to get one, please can you elaberate further on it as it sounds great?

i dont want online cloud based, i need local stored only for small business. Thanks

Do you have any ideas of where i go to find LibreOffice said templates as i no find any?
Thanks

idk what keygen mean, i tried filemaker years ago, it was to complicate for me to understand and when i tried again some years later i found that Filemaker which may i add is propriety wanted even more money to upgrade or the existing version wouldnt work, i need to stick with free open source software to prevent these kind of issues, thanks.

I specifically said No Cloud stuff though so i no understand why you are recommending cloud. Thanks

You create them yourself.

Putting "property inventory condition report" into a search engine and selecting Images shows a whole bunch of templates that would be easy to implement in LibreOffice (or any other spreadsheet or word processor).


(Ondoho was not recommending cloud, they were pointing out that all the items at Jefro's link were cloud solutions.)

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I am looking at something a little more than that as that is how i did them on macbook and took hours even a full day just inserting pics and getting the size down to under 20mb for email sending, i wanted to be able to say insert all said pics into 1 folder and that folder to automatically throw all pictures into specific sizes and locations of a document all done, i think i need software, i am currently looking into LibreOfficeBase but im not sure it can do what i need although its very useful indeed.

I was really hoping for a better way than trying to make a template as even a template document is usually problematic timewise and i dont want to put tenants and my data on any proprietary software let alone online which i need to avoid.

There was enough need that someone wrote it.

The software should come with your distro, or your can get it from the distro's repository.

A wide range of solutions are possible depending on the size of the problem.

For a small number of properties and one user, LibreOffice and Gimp can do most of what you want. You will need to organize the files manually.

If the number of properties is large enough, you will want to consider automation. A lot can be done with shell scripts and files. Linux comes with a wide assortment of tools to process information stored as text files. Images can be processed with ImageMagick and documents can be formatted with LaTeX. All of these tools are designed to be used by programs as well as humans.

The next step beyond shell scripts and files would be C/C++ and MariaDB. This would be like switching from a shovel to a bulldozer (to use earth-moving equipment as an analogy). I suspect your problem is sized so that a shovel is the right solution.
Ed

The issue here though is user knowledge sitting below zero hence me needing software, there is excellent inventory opensource complicated software out there for free too but just nothing seemingly directed towards property/tenants.

I really do appreciate all help from everyone but im really looking at local stored kinda software opensource and preferably free.