Built for the operator, not the spreadsheet.
RentCaddie is the property management platform that fits between a stack of spreadsheets and enterprise software priced for a 500-door portfolio. We make it look easy to run 30 doors with the admin work of 5.
Owner-operators with 5–50 doors are stuck. Enterprise tools like AppFolio and Buildium start at $298/mo with setup fees and assume you have an office and a leasing agent. Spreadsheets work until you forget a late fee three months in a row and write off $2,400 you should have collected. RentCaddie is the third option — the same backbone the big platforms have, priced and shaped for an operator who unclogs the toilet on Saturday.
The property management software market has a gap.
And the gap is exactly where most of the country's small landlords actually live.
AppFolio, Buildium, Yardi. Built for 100+ door property management companies. Setup fees in the four figures. Onboarding takes weeks. You pay for sales modules you'll never touch.
Free apps that collect rent but can't handle co-living, can't generate Schedule E reports, and put their brand on every email your tenant gets. Fine for one door. Painful at fifteen.
The same database backbone the enterprise tools have, with co-living and per-room leases native, your brand on every email, and the operations workflows owner-operators actually use.
Operators don't need more software. They need their Saturday back.
Most software in this category is built like a database with a UI on top. Every feature is a setting, every workflow is a report, and nothing is opinionated about how a small operator actually runs the business.
We took the opposite approach. RentCaddie is opinionated about the things that only matter at small scale: how co-living leases get priced per room, how move-in invoices hit the ledger the moment a tenant signs, how the same lease template auto-applies to every new tenant in a four-bedroom house. Then we got out of the way for everything else.
The bet is that if we save you twelve hours a week — the actual measured number we keep hearing back from operators — the rest of the product takes care of itself. You'll want to stay, you'll tell other operators, and we'll grow without a sales team.
Five principles. We try to be obnoxious about all of them.
Ship the thing
A feature isn't done when it's pretty. It's done when an operator can finish their job without thinking about it.
Your brand, always
Tenants log into your portal, get emails from your domain, pay you. RentCaddie stays out of the way.
Your data, always
One-click JSON export. Cancel anytime. We never share workspace data across customers, ever.
Boring beats clever
We use battle-tested infrastructure. Stripe holds the money. Supabase holds the data. We don't roll our own crypto.
We use what we ship
The same RentCaddie you sign up for runs real portfolios. If a workflow is annoying for an operator, it's annoying for us first.
We run real portfolios on this.
RentCaddie isn't a product we're hoping someone uses. It's what the team uses to run rooms today. The Schedule E, the rent collection, the co-living lease, the maintenance ticket your contractor closed last Tuesday — if it's painful for one of us at 9pm on a Sunday, it doesn't ship for anyone.
Some products you might confuse us with — and why we're not them.
Not a marketplace.
We don't list your rentals on Zillow or Apartments.com. You bring tenants in your own way; we run them from application to move-out.
Not a payments processor.
Stripe Connect powers payments. Rent goes directly from tenant to your bank — never through us. We just orchestrate.
Not for personal landlords with one door.
If you own one duplex and collect rent from family, you don't need us. Free tools work fine. We start to pay for themselves around door three.
Not legal, tax, or accounting advice.
We surface Schedule E categorization and a year-end tax package. A CPA still files your return. We make their job take twenty minutes instead of a weekend.
The whole product. 14 days. No credit card.
We import your data for free. Live in 15 minutes. If we don't save you 12 hours in your first month, we refund the month and pay you $100.