Most property management software gets built by companies selling to property management companies. That shapes everything about it: pricing per unit because that's how a management company thinks about scale, permission systems for teams of employees, dashboards built for someone reporting up to an owner they've never met.
If you own five units yourself, none of that describes your actual situation. You're not managing units on behalf of someone else. You're not coordinating a team. You don't need role-based permissions for a staff of one. What you need is much simpler and, oddly, much harder to buy: a clear record of your own properties, your own tenants, and your own money, without paying for infrastructure built for a business ten times your size.
The tell is always the pricing page. Per-unit pricing makes sense if you're a management company whose revenue scales with doors under management. It makes no sense if you're a landlord with five units and no intention of ever having fifty. You're being priced like a business you're not.
The other tell is the feature list. If half of it is about multi-entity reporting, staff permissions, and white-labeled tenant portals for a management company's clients, it wasn't built with you in the room.
Small landlords don't need smaller enterprise software. They need software built for the actual job they're doing, which is a different job than running a management company.