For the 1–5 door operator

Own a rental? You shouldn't need a second job to manage it.

You've got a day job. You inherited a house, or bought one as an investment, or turned your starter home into a rental. You don't want to become a property manager — you just want the rent to show up and the tenant to stop texting you on Sunday night.

Start free trial See Starter — $39/mo

14-day free trial · no credit card · built for up to 5 units

~4 hrs/mo

Average time a 2-unit landlord spends chasing rent, receipts, and texts

$1,860

What the average accidental landlord overpays at tax time without a ledger

30 min

How long tax season takes once Schedule-E is one click away

The toolkit

The accidental landlord's toolkit.

Every landlord we talked to wanted the same five things. Not twenty. Not a dashboard with eleven KPIs. Five things. Here they are.

Rent lands in your bank

Tenant pays by ACH (free) or card. It clears to your bank in 2–3 business days. Autopay so you stop "reminding." No more Venmo screenshots.

Lease is where you can find it

Sign a new lease in the browser. Store the old one. Three years from now when you need to pull the pet clause, it's not in a Gmail thread — it's right there.

Maintenance without the 9pm text

Tenant submits a ticket with a photo. You approve, assign your handyman, close it out. Nobody has your cell. You sleep through Sunday night.

One place to talk to your tenant

Every message, every notice, every receipt in one thread. No more "which text did they send?" If you ever need to show a paper trail, it's there.

A tax export that doesn't take a weekend

One click pulls every rent check and every expense into a clean Schedule-E summary. Send it to your CPA. Tax season goes from a weekend to a coffee.

Set it up in an afternoon

You are not spinning up AppFolio. You add a property, invite your tenant by email, and they onboard themselves. The whole setup fits between soccer practice and dinner.

Counter-positioning

What you're not.

A quick gut-check so you don't buy the wrong thing. Tenantory Starter is intentionally simple. Here's what you're avoiding and what you actually are.

You are NOT

Running AppFolio. You don't need 600 features to manage 2 houses.
A full-time property manager. This is a side hustle, not a career change.
Managing investor capital. Your only "investor" is your spouse.
Paying $280/mo for software that requires a 50-unit minimum.
Learning accounting software. You shouldn't have to know what "GL code" means.
Building a brand. You don't need your own domain and investor-facing portal yet.

You ARE

A pilot, teacher, nurse, or engineer with a rental or three.
Someone who wants rent to just work — automatic, on time, in your bank.
Looking for one clean record for your CPA in April.
Tired of your tenant texting your personal cell for a broken garbage disposal.
The perfect fit for Starter — $39/mo, up to 5 units.

Real moments

Four moments that made you Google this.

Specific scenarios. Specific fixes. If any of these sound like your week, Starter is built for you.

Sunday · 9:07 pm

"The one text I don't want to get at 9pm on a Sunday."

Your phone buzzes. It's your tenant. "Hey sorry, the water heater just started leaking." You're in pajamas. Your handyman isn't picking up. You stare at the text for three minutes trying to figure out the right response.

With Tenantory: Tenant opens the portal, submits a ticket with a photo and a priority. You see it, tap "assign to Mike," and Mike gets a text with the address. Total time: 90 seconds. Your Sunday stays your Sunday.

April · 11:42 pm

"Tax season in 30 minutes."

It's April 12. Your CPA needs Schedule E numbers by Friday. You open a shoebox of receipts. You open Chase. You open Venmo. You try to remember if that $340 Home Depot run was for the rental or for your kitchen. You lose a Saturday.

With Tenantory: Every rent payment is categorized. Every expense you log gets a tag. Hit "Export Schedule E" and a clean PDF + CSV drops in your inbox. Forward to your CPA. Done before the coffee is cold.

Tuesday · 7:14 am

"The tenant paid but I still forget to mark it."

Rent hit your Chase account last Saturday. You forgot to tell your tenant "got it, thanks." You forgot to write it down. Three weeks later you can't remember if March rent came through — because April rent is on top of it in the statement.

With Tenantory: Tenant sets up autopay. Rent is drafted on the 1st. The ledger auto-marks it paid. You get a "Rent landed — $1,450" email. If a payment ever fails, you know the same day.

November · 2:31 pm

"The lease that's still in my email from 2021."

Your tenant wants to know if they can get a second cat. You said yes to one cat in the lease. Was it the 2021 lease? The renewal? You scroll through Gmail. You find three versions. Two are unsigned. You panic-search "pet clause."

With Tenantory: Every lease is signed in-app and filed under the property. Searchable. Dated. Clearly marked "current" vs. "expired." The pet clause is one click away — for you and the tenant.

Pricing

Starter is built for you. Literally you.

$39/mo. Up to 5 units. Everything the toolkit above does. No upsell, no "starter-tier-but-actually-pay-more" nonsense.

Built for 1–5 doors

Starter

For the accidental landlord · up to 5 units

$39/month

Online rent collection — ACH free, cards 2.95%
Autopay + late-fee automation
Lease e-sign & document storage
Maintenance ticketing with photo upload
Income/expense ledger + Schedule-E friendly export
Tenant portal at tenantory.com/you
Email support (48hr) and our $100 time-back guarantee

Start Starter free for 14 days

No credit card · cancel in one click

Someday you'll add a 6th door.

When that happens — a neighbor sells, you close on a duplex, life happens — you move up to Pro at $99/mo (up to 50 units). We email you at 4 of 5, one click upgrades you, and you keep all your data, leases, and tenant history. No migration. No "start over."

Until then, Starter is the whole product for the whole job. Don't pay for Pro before you need it.

See every plan

Questions

The things a solo landlord actually asks.

Honest answer: no, and that's exactly who we built Starter for. One rental is where the forgetfulness starts — one missed rent, one unsigned renewal, one Home Depot receipt you can't find in April. $39/mo for rent collection + lease storage + a clean tax export pays for itself the first time you don't lose a $280 expense because you threw the receipt away.

Venmo works until it doesn't. Three problems it quietly creates: (1) no paper trail your CPA will accept, (2) no autopay — you're still "reminding" the tenant, and (3) personal-account Venmo starts flagging rent transfers as a business and can freeze them. Tenantory gives the tenant the same "tap to pay" experience, but the receipts, ledger, and autopay all happen in the background. Most tenants prefer it once they try it.

You need a signed lease. You don't need DocuSign. We give you a free state-specific template, you fill in the blanks, both of you sign in the browser in about four minutes, and the signed PDF lives in the property file forever. The lease you actually need is the one you can find three years from now — that's the part most single-unit landlords skip and regret.

We don't file your taxes — your CPA does that. But we give you the one document your CPA actually wants: a per-property income and expense summary in the Schedule-E format, plus a CSV of every transaction. Export it, email your CPA, done. Most of our landlords tell us their CPA bill dropped because they stopped paying for "bookkeeping cleanup."

Yes. If you can use Gmail and Venmo, you're over-qualified. The whole setup is: add your property (name + address), invite your tenant by email, they click the link and enter their bank info. Average first-time setup is 18 minutes. If you get stuck, email hello@tenantory.com — a real human responds, usually same day.

They won't see "a portal." They'll get an email that says "Pay March rent — $1,450" with a button. They click, enter their bank once, and never think about it again. We designed the tenant side to look like a receipt, not a dashboard. Zero learning curve. If they really want to keep paying by check, that's fine too — you just log the check in the ledger and everything else still works.