Our Story
In 2007 our founder was managing his rentals the old fashioned way using pen, paper,
spreadsheets, and his memory of
who owes rent and which fridge needs replacing and which pipes were leaking. This worked great for the first few rentals, but
quickly became a mess
of receipts, poor record keeping, a failure to know who's rent is late, and forgetting what maintenance needed to be done when
and where. Sound familiar?
With a background in software development, he knew there had to be a landlord specific software solution which would tidy up his
records and help him continue growing
his rental empire. Alas -- after countless days of searching and reviewing software applications, none were up to the task.
Accounting software like Quickbooks did
not have features specific to landlords, and the software that would work was designed for huge corporations and was cost
prohibitive.
So one very early morning in March of 2007, Rentec Direct started sprouting to life. One early morning after another (as Nathan
also had a day job) he
went to work creating a fully featured property management software application. About fourteen thousand gallons of coffee
later, a free application was available to
all landlords world-wide called Rentec Direct.
Rentec Pro, loaded with super cool features for landlords like online rental payments and
tenant screening, was born a couple years later. Rentec Pro was so popular among landlords
that we started getting heavy interest from property managers who wanted access to these same cool features that landlords had
access to. We complied by adding
Rentec PM which included nifty features like trust accounting to support the small-mid size
property management community.
How are we different?
We grew our business from the ground up, just like you!
Rentec Direct is 100% self-funded, 100% debt-free, and we grow 100% organically. The hip term for this is called "bootstrapping"
and we think companies that can grow on
their own merits are pretty darn exciting. We began this way in 2007 and now over 14,000 property managers use Rentec Direct to
manage over 500,000 units.
You won't find better support anywhere else, we promise!
We're not making this up either. Just google "rentec direct
reviews" and you'll see that our clients LOVE us!! It's been that way since we started in 2007
and isn't about to change, ever!
Our competitors trip all over themselves asking how we do it, but the answer is a really simple formula:
- We don't outsource - our entire staff is located right here in Grants Pass, Oregon USA where we can
control the quality.
- We pick only the highest qualified individuals, most with prior property management experience, to
be on our support team.
- We really care! We're not here to make investors happy, or to make our stock price jump, our only goal is to take care of you.
Rentec Direct is committed to small-mid size landlords and property managers!
If you are a landlord just starting out, or a property manager with up to a couple thousand units your business is precious to
us!
We will never abandon you and we will continue to deliver value and features designed to make you efficient and competitive with
even the largest of property managers.
We've operated this way since day 1, and we intend continue operating this way forever.