Electronic Tenant Records

The record system HCV and LIPH staff open first every morning.

ETR keeps applicant, participant, recertification, inspection and grievance evidence in one transaction-based household file, retrievable in a single search.

Housing specialist working through Housing Choice Voucher participant records inside FileVision ETR on a laptop
What ETR is

Purpose-built for housing operations, not a repurposed DMS.

ETR is a web-based platform for organizing, retrieving and governing tenant and participant records throughout the housing lifecycle. It complements your existing HMS or rent-ledger system rather than replacing it. Deploy in the cloud, hybrid, or on-premises.

What lives inside ETR

Five household-file surfaces, one platform.

Intake team uploading applicant documents into the FileVision Electronic Tenant Records interface
Intake

Applicant and Intake Files

Structured applicant records with eligibility, verification and intake paperwork organized by transaction and household.

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HCV / Section 8

HCV Participant Files

Voucher participant documentation, recertifications, briefings, notices and RFTA correspondence in one file per household.

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LIPH

Public Housing Resident Files

LIPH resident recertifications, grievances, reasonable accommodations, inspections and correspondence, tied to the household.

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Recertifications

Annual Recertification Files

Checklists, income and verification evidence, EIV documentation, notices and approvals kept together for every reexamination.

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NSPIRE

NSPIRE Inspection Evidence

Reports, photographs, work orders and corrective-action tracking for every unit inspected under NSPIRE.

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Compliance team walking through an ETR tenant case on twin monitors, discussing a household file transaction
Transaction-based structure

Every household file mirrors the housing lifecycle.

Application, briefing, lease-up, annual recertification, interim change, inspection, grievance, move-out. Each event has its own transaction in the file, with checklists, forms, evidence and approvals stored together.

When a HUD monitor asks for the paper trail behind a decision, staff open one household file, click the transaction and hand over the whole record.

  • Structured lifecycle events per household file
  • Checklists tie evidence to each transaction
  • Missing-document flags surface incomplete files before deadlines
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Modules inside ETR

What sits on the dashboard when staff log in.

Compliance officer and manager reviewing the ETR NSPIRE Inspections dashboard with a corrective-action tracker

Dashboard and Noticeboard

The staff home screen: assigned files, upcoming deadlines, compliance status and organization-wide notices in one view.

HUD inspector using a tablet to work through an NSPIRE checklist with pass and fail toggles at a rental unit

Checklist-driven completeness

Configurable checklists per transaction so every household file is measured complete against the same rules.

Staff and applicant signing an electronic tenant records form on a large monitor in a housing office

Electronic signatures

Signed forms and acknowledgments captured directly into the household file, with a full audit trail on every signature.

Inspector reviewing an NSPIRE corrective action tracker in FileVision, with the same NSPIRE report open on paper

Audit trails and version history

Every action, edit and approval logged. Answer who saw what, when and why during any HUD monitoring visit.

Field inspectors reviewing an NSPIRE mobile inspection queue on a tablet outside a resident apartment

OCR and enterprise search

Full-text and metadata search across every file, letter, form and evidence photo in the system.

"The record keeping system is easy to navigate and adds quality control."

HA
Director of Housing Programs
Housing Authority in the Southwest
Common questions

Before you request a demo.

ETR is web-based and available as a cloud, hybrid or on-premises deployment. Housing authorities choose the model that matches their IT and data policies.
No. ETR complements your existing HMS or rent-ledger platform, syncing real-time data where useful and holding the document, evidence and workflow layer where those systems fall short.
Yes. Role-based permissions govern every file, with additional protection for grievance, reasonable-accommodation and other sensitive records so staff only see what their role requires.
ETR can run as a standalone repository or layer housing-specific file structure, metadata and workflows on top of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, so staff stay in the environment they already use.
Ready when you are

Bring your own file. See it in ETR.

Send a redacted household file and we will walk through it in a live 30-minute session.