A new account is most useful once it holds your real portfolio: your properties, your tenants, their contracts and the certificates behind them. Thirty focused minutes is enough to get there, and from then on HomeDash does the remembering.
Once you sign in, Learn HomeDash walks you through every step on your own account, with short lessons and guided tours. Open it from Help. This page is the overview.
What the first thirty minutes sets up
- Your properties. Each property gets its own page for compliance, maintenance, inspections, documents and money.
- Your tenants and contracts. A contract is what drives rent: once it exists, rent charges appear on their own and late payments stand out.
- Your certificates. Upload a gas safety certificate or EICR and HomeDash reads the dates and tracks the renewal.
- The alerts you want. Choose what HomeDash emails you about, so nothing falls through the gaps.
Finding your way around
Everything sits in seven places along the top: Dashboard, Calendar, Properties, Tenancies, Maintenance, Compliance and Money. Contacts, the Toolkit and partner services are in the More menu.
The dashboard's Needs Attention list is where to start each day. It gathers what genuinely needs a decision, such as an expiring certificate, a deposit still to protect or a rent review coming up.
After the first thirty minutes
Learn HomeDash has tracks for what comes next: starting a tenancy end to end, staying compliant, handling maintenance, running your finances, talking to tenants and ending a tenancy. Each lesson takes a few minutes, and the ones where you do the task complete themselves when HomeDash sees it done.
Start with your own portfolio
Create your account, then open Learn HomeDash from Help for the step-by-step first thirty minutes.
Start freeSources
- Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998
- Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020
- gov.uk — Tenancy deposit protection
- gov.uk — Renters’ Rights Act: an overview for landlords
Change log: 5 Oct 2026 — rewritten as a short overview. The step-by-step walkthrough moved into the app as Learn HomeDash, so the instructions live in one place and stay in step with the product. 19 Sep 2026 — sources added and review date set.