A real estate transaction is a high-dollar wire transfer coordinated over email on a deadline — which is exactly why the FBI consistently ranks real estate among the most targeted industries for business email compromise. Meanwhile the day-to-day business runs from everywhere: agents at showings, property managers at site visits, leasing staff in the office, all needing the same systems to just work. Braintek supports real estate and property management firms across Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth with IT built for both realities.
Wire fraud is the industry’s biggest IT problem — treat it like one
The scam is always the same: a compromised or spoofed email account, a plausible “updated wire instructions” message days before closing, and earnest money or closing funds gone. Defense is layered and boring, which is why it works: MFA on every mailbox, advanced email security that flags spoofed senders and lookalike domains, and verification procedures your staff actually follows. We implement all three, and we’ve watched them catch live attempts.
Support for the platforms your business runs on
MLS access, AppFolio, Yardi, Buildium, DocuSign, dotloop, your showing service — the software list in a realty or property management office is long, and every item on it has to work with your workstations, browsers, and printers. We manage that environment end to end and own the vendor calls when a platform breaks on their side. Your office manager gets out of the IT-middleman business.
Agents work everywhere — their technology should too
Real estate doesn’t happen at a desk. We set up secure access to your systems from laptops, tablets, and phones — with the controls that keep a lost device at an open house from becoming a data breach. Multi-office firms get connected branches under one managed IT relationship, whether the offices are across Houston or split between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.
Records that survive anything, for as long as Texas says
Transaction files and trust-account records carry multi-year retention obligations, and “the server died” is not an accepted excuse. Our backup approach is automated, immutable (ransomware can’t encrypt it), and tested — we restore files on a schedule to prove the safety net holds, so your broker of record never has to find out the hard way.
Costs are flat and predictable: $150 to $250 per device per month plus $15 to $35 per mailbox, detailed on our pricing page. For a mailbox-heavy, device-light realty office, that usually pencils out well under the cost of the problems it prevents.