Who built The Lessor

I built The Lessor because managing a couple of rentals had turned into four things at once: a spreadsheet for the books, a bank app for the rent, a group text for the tenants, and a folder of PDFs for the leases. None of them knew about each other. Every January I rebuilt the whole year from bank statements.

The software built for this problem is priced for property managers with fifty doors. Paying $69 a month to track two units never made sense. The free tools that do exist hand you rent collection and then charge your tenant a fee per transfer, or hold back the accounting until you upgrade — which is the part I actually needed.

So The Lessor gives away the first two properties completely: rent collection, leases, messaging, requests, and real double-entry bookkeeping with a P&L, balance sheet and trial balance. Not a trial. Not a teaser. If you own one rental, that is the whole product, free. It makes data importing from each door quick and simple during onboarding.

I know what it costs when a landlord tool disappears — plenty of people are still sore about Cozy shutting down and dumping them into a migration they did not ask for. So two commitments: your data is yours and exportable at any time, and I publish a dated changelog so you can see for yourself that the product is still being worked on. The Lessor is funded by subscriptions from landlords, not by advertising or by selling your data.

If something is broken or missing, tell me. With a product this size, you are talking to the person who wrote it.