Should the website use manually reviewed property records or a property-management provider?
- Versioned public records reviewed by staff
- Verified provider API, embed, or public destination
Choose: Start with versioned staff-reviewed records when the public inventory is small or no provider path has been reproduced. Use a provider only after verifying the account, plan, rights, supported integration, credentials, field authority, refresh behavior, status vocabulary, retries, privacy, and outage fallback.
Tradeoff: Manual records give the team direct control over public copy but require disciplined freshness reviews. A provider can reduce duplicate entry while adding another contract, credential, mapping, privacy, reconciliation, rate-limit, cost, and failure boundary.
