Rent out your own home, and manage it yourself.
Rooftree keeps one home's rental in order: the lease, the monthly bill, rent paid from the tenant's bank account, repairs, and photos of the home every month. No management company, and nothing that needs a manual.
How it works
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Set up the home and the lease
Add the property, write the lease with its rent, due day and fees, add the tenant and invite them to their portal. Billing starts the day you activate the lease.
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The rent bills itself
Each month's rent and fees go on the tenant's account ten days before the due date, as one bill. They pay it from their bank account in a few taps, or switch on automatic payment; cash and checks you record in a moment.
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Photos each month, repairs as they happen
Before each rent, the tenant sends photos of the places you chose and earns a small discount for sending them on time. Repairs are reported with photos and talked through in one place.
Who it is for
People who rent out a home they own
A former house, a duplex, a family property: one to a handful of rentals, looked after by you. Rooftree does the bookkeeping and the reminding so that you can.
Their tenants
A portal that asks little: see the lease, pay the rent, send the photos, report a problem. Plain words, works on a phone, and the only account to keep up is a password.
Not a management company
Rooftree is built for one owner and a few homes, not for a firm with hundreds of doors. It never holds your rent, never speaks to your tenant for you, and never charges them a fee to pay you.
What makes it different
One bill a month
Rent, fixed fees and the photo discount make one total on one due date. A utility bill you pass on goes on the next month's bill, so the tenant pays once.
Paid from a bank account
The tenant pays from their bank, not a card, so there is no card fee on $1,000 of rent. Someone who has never banked online can type their account numbers instead.
The money goes straight to you
Payments land in a Stripe account you own. Rooftree never holds your rent, and refunds and disputes are yours to handle from your own dashboard.
Photos with a reason to send them
A fixed discount comes off the month's rent when every photo is sent by the day before it is due. You see the home every month without visiting it.
Repairs with a record
A tenant reports a problem with photos; you and they talk it through on the request, and your private notes stay private. Nothing is lost in a text thread.
The deposit kept apart
What was received, what was kept and what was returned, as the itemised statement a tenant is owed when they move out. Never mixed with the rent.
In use, and opening slowly
Rooftree runs real rentals today. While it settles in, accounts are by invitation: write and say a little about what you rent out, and you will hear back within a business day.