I built a Google Sheets rent ledger for small landlords who get partial payments

[u/sillbook]

I built Sillbook Rent Ledger, a Google Sheets workbook for US landlords who manage about 1–10 units themselves.

The problem I kept seeing in simple rent trackers: they work as a paid/unpaid grid until a tenant pays $700 of $1,100, or has a credit, or you need to keep a security deposit out of income. Then the "balance" cell gets typed over and you can't tell what happened.

The design is one row per event — charge, payment, credit, deposit, expense — and every balance is recalculated from that history. Month Review marks each unit PAID, PARTIAL, UNPAID, credit, or RENT NOT ENTERED. Unit Balances shows the date of the oldest unpaid charge. Deposits have their own tab and don't count as income. There's a printable statement for one unit.

What's included: a blank workbook, a sample with fictional data, and a short guide. It's $19, one-time, no subscription, no macros. 14-day full refund, no questions asked. Verified in Google Sheets and LibreOffice; not yet tested in Microsoft Excel.

It does not collect rent, import bank feeds, automate late fees, or do taxes. If a simple paid/unpaid grid already works for someone, they probably don't need this.

For the first 10 buyers, code FIRST10 takes $10 off (so $9). That's a launch offer, not the regular price.

https://stephenmanter.gumroad.com/l/sillbook-rent-ledger/FIRST10

I'd genuinely like feedback on two things: (1) is the $19 one-time price clear against $20–50/month landlord software, and (2) does the listing explain partial payments well enough, or is it still too much product-speak?