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How APPF rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025

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Risks Related to Our Products and Services If we are found to be in violation of the legal requirements applicable to our products and services, our business and operating results may be adversely affected.
For instance, we consistently monitor regulatory activity by the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC"), by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB"), and by various state regulatory bodies applicable to tenant screening.
New or uncertain regulatory requirements may impact our ability to offer or our customers' ability and willingness to utilize certain of our services, which may impact our operating results.
Any increase in returns or chargebacks that we are not able to recover from our customers may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, if transactions or settlement reconciliations are not performed timely or are inaccurate due to human or processing errors, we could experience significant financial loss that could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Our electronic payment services business also exposes us to risk in connection with theft, fraud and other malicious activity by our employees, our third-party service providers’ employees, or third-parties who improperly gain access to our systems, our customers’ systems, or our third-party providers' systems.
In the past, third-party bad actors have gained improper access to our systems, our customers’ systems, and our third-party providers' systems, and we experienced financial loss as a result.
While we continually seek to improve the measures we take to secure our systems and payments infrastructure, it is not possible to entirely eliminate the risk of intentional wrongdoing.
If third-party bad actors again gain access to any of these systems, or our employees or third-party service providers’ employees misuse our payment systems for malicious purposes, we could experience material financial loss that may adversely affect our operating results.
Accordingly, we must rely on banks or other card payment processors to process transactions and pay fees for their services.
Our card payment processors require us to comply with payment card network operating rules, including special operating rules for electronic payment service providers to merchants.
We have agreed to reimburse our processors for any fees or fines they are assessed by payment card networks as a result of any rule violations by us or our merchants.
In the past, all such allegations have been resolved favorably.
If, however, such allegations are not resolved favorably in the future, they may result in material fines and penalties or require changes in our business practices that may be costly.
While we believe that our tenant screening services comply with relevant laws and regulations, we have been, and may in the future be, accused of not complying with such laws and regulations, and have been, and may in the future be, found to be in violation of them.
Our potential liability in any enforcement action, class action lawsuit, or significant single plaintiff lawsuit could have a material impact on our business, especially given that certain applicable laws and regulations provide for fines or penalties on a per occurrence basis and we participate in a large number of tenant screening transactions.
Our resident-focused offerings, such as Resident Onboarding and Resident Onboarding Lift, subject us and our customers to increased regulatory scrutiny and legal requirements.
While our primary customers are property management companies, we offer (either directly or indirectly via third-party partnerships) various resident-focused products and services that are utilized by residents, including resident concierge services and resident benefit packages.
These offerings subject us to additional regulatory risks and evolving legal requirements, particularly regarding fee transparency and disclosure.
Federal and state regulatory agencies, including the FTC and the CFPB, have increasingly focused on the rental housing industry, specifically regarding the clarity of fees associated with residential tenancies.
If our products are deemed to lack adequate transparency or disclosure, or if the mandatory nature of certain services is found to violate consumer protection laws, we or our customers could be subject to litigation or governmental investigation.
Furthermore, regulatory requirements vary throughout the markets in which we operate, and new or updated state and local landlord-tenant laws may regulate the types of fees and services that property managers can require residents to purchase.
Unfavorable administrative or judicial decisions interpreting these laws could impact our customers' ability or willingness to utilize these services, which may adversely impact our operating results.
Our resident-focused concierge services also rely on third-party service providers to fulfill specific functionality, such as utility connections, internet connections, or moving services.
We have significantly less control over the systems and processes of these providers, and any failure by these third parties to perform satisfactorily or to protect resident data could result in significant disruption to our operations, reputational harm, or potential liability.
Because these services are ultimately utilized by residents, we may face an increased risk of class-based litigation or regulatory inquiries arising from resident disputes over service delivery, billing or alleged violations of consumer protection laws.
There is no guarantee that we will not be required to adjust our business practices to accommodate future regulatory requirements, or that these offerings will not result in material financial loss.
Although we believe our services are compliant with antitrust laws, we may face similar challenges, which regardless of merit, could cause us to incur significant expenses, distract management, damage our reputation, and result in substantial fines, damages, and/or settlement costs, all of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.
Real or perceived errors, defects, or other disruptions in our products or the products of our third-party service providers upon which certain of our products are dependent, could result in negative publicity, reputational harm, loss of customers, delay in market acceptance of our products and services, loss of competitive position, withholding or delay of payment to us, claims by customers for losses sustained by them and potential litigation or regulatory action.
In any such event, we may be required to expend additional resources to correct the problem or we may choose to expend additional resources to take corrective action even when not required.
In addition, we may not carry insurance sufficient to offset any losses that may result from claims arising from such errors, defects or other disruptions.
Our business depends, in part, on our ability to satisfy our customers by providing a consistently high level of onboarding services and ongoing customer service.
Once our services are deployed, our customers depend on our customer service organization to resolve technical issues relating to their use of the services.
Further, our sales process is highly dependent on the ease of use of our products and services, our reputation and positive recommendations from our existing customers.
Any failure to maintain high-quality and responsive customer service, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality and responsive customer service, could harm our reputation, cause us to lose customers and adversely impact our ability to sell our products and services to prospective customers.
Some of our property management customers require their renters to maintain certain insurance coverage requirements.
Through wholly owned and licensed subsidiaries, we make renters insurance policies available to these renters and, if our customers so elect, add uncovered units to a qualifying liability to landlord insurance policy via a licensed insurance broker.
If our property management customers stop requiring renters to maintain insurance coverage because of regulatory or competitive pressures, demand for our insurance-related risk mitigation products may decline and our revenues and operating results could be adversely affected.
If we fail to maintain relationships with third-party service providers that enable certain functionality within our products and services or provide our customers with specialized technology and services, our business and operating results may be harmed.
Certain functionality of our services is provided, supported or enhanced by third-party service providers, including without limitation functions related to CRM, cloud computing, texting, emailing, electronic payments, tenant screening, and insurance related offerings.

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Risks Related to Our Products and Solutions If we are found to be in violation of the legal requirements applicable to our products and services, our business and operating results may be adversely affected.
For instance, we are monitoring FCRA rulemaking efforts by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") and various recently enacted and proposed state regulations applicable to tenant screening.
These new regulatory requirements may impact our ability to offer or our customers' ability and willingness to utilize certain of our services, which may impact our operating results.
Any increase in returns or chargebacks that we are not able to recover from our customers may adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, if transactions or settlement reconciliations are not performed timely or are inaccurate due to human or processing errors, we could experience significant financial loss that could have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.
Our electronic payment services business also exposes us to risk in connection with theft, fraud and other malicious activity by our employees, our third-party service providers’ employees, or third-parties who improperly gain access to our systems or our customers’ systems.
While we take reasonable measures to secure our systems and payments infrastructure, it is not possible to entirely eliminate the risk of intentional wrongdoing.
In the past, third-party bad actors have gained improper access to our systems and our customers’ systems and we experienced financial loss as a result.
If third-party bad actors again gain access to our systems or our customers’ systems, or our employees or third-party service providers’ employees misuse our payment systems for malicious purposes, we could experience material financial loss that may affect our operating results.
Accordingly, we must rely on banks or other card payment processors to process transactions and must pay fees for their services.
Our card payment processors require us to comply with payment card network operating rules, including special operating rules for electronic payment service providers to merchants, and we have agreed to reimburse our processors for any fines they are assessed by payment card networks as a result of any rule violations by us or our merchants.
In the past, all such allegations have been resolved favorably, however, if such allegations are not resolved favorably in the future, they may result in material fines and penalties or require changes in our business practices that may be costly.
Although we attempt to structure our tenant screening services to comply with relevant laws and regulations, we are routinely accused of not complying with such laws and regulations and have been and may again in the future be found to be in violation of them.
Our potential liability in any enforcement action, class action lawsuit, or significant single plaintiff action could have a material impact on our business, especially given that certain applicable laws and regulations provide for fines or penalties on a per occurrence basis and we participate in a large number of tenant screening transactions.
Real or perceived errors, defects, or other disruptions in our products or the products of our third-party service providers upon which certain of our products are dependent, could result in negative publicity, reputational harm, loss of customers, delay in market acceptance of our products and solutions, loss of competitive position, withholding or delay of payment to us, claims by customers for losses sustained by them and potential litigation or regulatory action.
In any such event, we may be required to expend additional resources to help correct the problem or we may choose to expend additional resources to take corrective action even when not required.
In addition, we may not carry insurance sufficient to offset any losses that may result from claims arising from errors, defects or other disruptions in our products.
Our business depends, in part, on our ability to satisfy our customers by providing onboarding services and ongoing customer service.
Once our solutions are deployed, our customers depend on our customer service organization to resolve technical issues relating to their use of our solutions.
Further, our sales process is highly dependent on the ease of use of our solutions, our reputation and positive recommendations from our existing customers.
Any failure to maintain high-quality and responsive customer service, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality and responsive customer service, could harm our reputation, cause us to lose customers and adversely impact our ability to sell our solutions to prospective customers.
Some of our property management customers require their renters to purchase rental insurance policies.
Through wholly owned subsidiaries, we make rental insurance policies available to these renters and, if our customers so elect, add uncovered units to a qualifying liability to landlord insurance policy via a licensed insurance broker.
If our property management customers stop requiring renters to purchase rental insurance policies because of regulatory or competitive pressures, demand for our insurance-related risk mitigation products may decline and our revenues and operating results could be adversely affected.
If we fail to maintain relationships with third-party service providers that enable certain functionality within our solutions or provide our customers with specialized technology and services, our business and operating results may be harmed.
Certain functionality of our services is provided, supported or enhanced by third-party service providers, including without limitation functions related to customer relationship management, cloud computing, texting, emailing, electronic payments, tenant screening, and insurance related offerings.
If our third-party service providers cease providing their products or making them available through AppFolio Stack, our solutions and demand for our solutions would be adversely impacted and our business and operating results would be harmed.
We employ machine learning and AI technologies, including generative AI, in our product and service offerings.
As AI represents a rapidly evolving field, it inherently carries a spectrum of risks typical to emerging technologies.
Should we introduce solutions that generate content that is misleading, biased, harmful or controversial due to perceived or actual societal impact, we may face potential harm to our brand and reputation, competitive disadvantages, or legal liabilities.
Consequently, our employment of AI technologies and features might lead to allegations of infringement or misappropriation of third-party intellectual property rights.
Additionally, generative AI has the capacity to yield inaccurate or misleading results, promote discriminatory outcomes, or perpetuate unintended biases, which risks are exacerbated by the speed and scale that AI has the ability to operate at across our customer base.
Despite our efforts to implement measures and develop our AI tools in a manner that enhances security and fairness, these issues may arise due to the direct interaction of users with generative AI models and the inherent unpredictability and power of these technologies.
Litigation or government regulation related to the use of AI may also adversely impact our ability to develop and offer products that use AI, as well as increase the cost and complexity of doing so.
Potential government regulation related to AI use and ethics may also increase the burden and cost in this area.
Failure to properly remediate AI usage or ethics issues may cause public confidence in AI to be undermined.
If we are unable to ensure that our solutions keep pace with other technology, our solutions may become less competitive and our operating results may be harmed.
Our competitors may have or expend a greater amount of resources on improvement of technology, and our failure to maintain adequate development programs or compete effectively could materially and adversely affect our business.
If we are unable to ensure that our solutions interoperate with other technology, our solutions may become less competitive and our operating results may be harmed.
Any changes in such web browsers or systems that degrade the functionality of our solutions or give preferential treatment to competitive services could adversely affect the adoption and use of our solutions.

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