For the 1–10 unit, self-managing landlord

The operations log that ends tax-time dread.

Stuck between a spreadsheet and property software built for 100 units? Log what happens at each unit as it happens, ask about it in plain English, and export the year's expenses in one tap.

A native iPhone app is on the way — log a repair from the driveway.Coming soon to theApp Store
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Profitability — 2026

Money details
+$41,200
rent in YTD
$12,840
spent YTD
$16,980
mortgage YTD
+$11,380
cash flow YTD

Of the mortgage, $14,610 was interest and $2,370 went to principal — equity, not a cost.

On $262,800 of cash invested across 3 units, that's a 4.3% cash-on-cash return.

And by your own valuations — Transom never guesses one — $845,000 against $312,400 owed: $532,600 of equity.

Rent inSpentMortgage
  • Elm St+$4.1k
  • Oak Ave+$6.4k
  • Bridge Ln+$0.9k
Elm St3 open · 1 overdue
Oak Ave2 open
Bridge Lnnothing open

One log per property

Every unit's history, in one place

Rent, repairs, servicing, inspections, mileage, insurance, tenant notes — not scattered across a spreadsheet, a shoebox of receipts and your inbox. Add each unit's mortgage and the bottom line counts the payment too, not just rent against repairs.

  • A profitability view over the whole portfolio, and per unit — after the mortgage, not before it
  • Your own valuation drives equity, appreciation and return on equity
  • Cash-on-cash return on what you actually put in, per unit and portfolio-wide
  • One Activity stream across every unit, filterable by year and type

Log something — tap a card

Mileage
Insurance
Property tax
Improvement
Utilities
Note
Log rent — Elm St
Pre-filled from your last rent entry. Change anything, then save.
Amount
$1,450.00
When
Jul 1
Save entry

Two taps, from the driveway

It shows you what's worth tracking

Every trackable thing is a tappable card, pre-filled from that unit's own history — last rent amount, your usual contractor, the servicing you actually do. Open a card and you get only that type's fields, nothing else.

  • Rent pre-filled from the last one you logged
  • Photograph the receipt straight into the entry
  • Back-date freely — the date is when it happened, not when you typed it
  • Capital improvements stay separate from repairs, at entry time
Add something a unit needs…

4 open · $1,120 of planned work

Due now2
Replace the kitchen tap washerElm St · overdue$60
Chase the roofer's quoteOak Ave · today
Coming up1
Clear the guttersOak Ave · Sep 1$180
Someday1
Repaint the stairwellBridge Ln

The log's mirror image

What still needs doing

Capture the leaking valve, the quote to chase, the gutters before autumn — the moment you notice it, in one line. Give it a unit, a date and a rough cost if you know them, then check it off when it's done.

  • Groups itself into due now, coming up, no date, and someday
  • An estimated cost is a plan — it never reaches the tax export
  • Portfolio-wide work can belong to no unit at all
  • Each property page shows the work that unit is still waiting on
Requests

3 open · 1 needs you

Needs you
Submitted2 new

Kitchen tap drips overnight

Dana · Elm St duplex

In flight
ScheduledVisit Tue

Back bedroom radiator cold

Sam · Oak Ave rental

In progress

Porch light out

Dana · Elm St duplex

For the people who live there

Your tenants get a portal, you get one inbox

Invite a tenant by email and they get their own sign-in: somewhere to report the dripping tap and watch it move to Scheduled. Every request lands in one place instead of scattered across texts, you hear about it when it does, and you can pull any of them onto your to-do list in a tap.

  • A status your tenant can actually follow — Seen, Scheduled, In progress, Resolved
  • Drafted replies you edit and send yourself — every message stays on that repair's thread
  • Tenants never see your log, your money, or your other units
  • One tap turns a request into a to-do at that property

Reminders (3)

Recurring servicing and inspections coming due, based on the cadence you set when logging them.

  • Elm StBoiler serviceOverdue by 92 days
  • Oak AveGutter clearingDue in 14 days
  • Bridge LnAnnual inspectionDue in 26 days

Worth logging

No July rent logged for Elm St

You logged $1,450 last month. Log it, or say the unit was vacant.

Log rentVacant this month

Never miss servicing

Standing jobs come back on their own

Set a cadence when you log a furnace service or an inspection — "every 12 months" — and it reappears when it's coming due. Plain-rule nudges read your own log too: no rent this month, a service that's a year overdue.

  • Overdue, due soon and upcoming, on one page
  • The cadence is set at the moment you log the work
  • Nudges are dismissible in one tap — "vacant this month" is an answer
  • Everything is computed from the log itself, not a separate calendar

Rent in vs. spent vs. mortgage

2026
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
+$41.2k
rent in
$12.8k
spent
$16,980
mortgage
+$11,380
cash flow

Only the interest is a cost — principal becomes equity, so profit is higher than cash flow.

Where the year went

The cash view, month by month — after the mortgage

Rent in against everything out, for any year the log covers — portfolio-wide and per unit. Put a unit's mortgage on file and the payment is subtracted too, so the number you read is the one that reaches the bank.

  • Any year the log covers, not just this one
  • Per-unit totals, so a loss-making unit is obvious — debt service included
  • Mileage is valued at the IRS standard rate in effect on the date of the trip
  • A to-do's estimated cost is never counted as money spent

Contractors

Marco RuizPlumbing
(555) 014-22776 jobs · $2,140
Hutchins HeatingHVAC
(555) 019-88303 jobs · $540
Dana WhitfieldElectrical
(555) 007-44122 jobs · $690

Who you call

The trades directory that fills itself

Saved contact details, merged with the work history the log already knows about. When you log a repair you pick from the people you've used before, so the directory grows as a side effect of doing the work.

  • Organised by trade, with phone and email one tap away
  • Every job you logged with them, right on the card
  • Names offered back to you when you log the next repair
  • Your own notes — who turns up, who doesn't

2026 deduction coverage

What's in the log so far this year. An empty category isn't a problem — but it's often a deduction left on the table.

    date,property,address,type,category,miles,contractor,description,income,expense,capital
    Elm St,2026-06-14,repair,Repairs,340.00,
    Elm St,2026-06-21,mileage,Auto & travel,,18
    Export 2026 expenses (CSV)

    The whole point, once a year

    One tap at tax time

    A deduction-coverage checklist shows what's missing before you export, then one tap downloads the year as a clean CSV — grouped by Schedule E category, mileage valued, improvements in their own column. Hand it to your accountant and move on.

    • Grouped on Schedule E lines, totalled per property
    • Coverage checklist flags the deductions people forget — including the mortgage interest your note implies
    • Capital improvements kept out of repairs — the classic audit flag
    • Export one property or the whole portfolio, any year

    Make it yours

    A log you don't mind opening

    Pick a palette, build your own, or describe a vibe and have one generated for you. Every theme is checked for readable contrast before it ships, so the numbers stay legible.

    Recent activity
    Rent — Elm St+$1,450
    Boiler service — Elm St$185
    Generate a theme

    The quieter parts

    Not headline features. Just the things that make the log survive a real week.

    Voice

    Ask out loud, hands full

    Talk to the log and it answers from your own entries. Voice is read-only for now — it will tell you when the boiler was last serviced, but it won't write a line into your financial record without you seeing it.

    Offline

    Basements don't have signal

    Recently viewed screens keep working without a connection, and anything you change while offline is held on your device and sent the moment you're back.

    Zen Mode

    A quieter room

    Tap the leaf in the top bar and every page strips back to the essentials — properties, to-dos, the assistant. Tap it again and everything comes back.

    Pricing

    One price, whatever you own

    No per-unit metering, no tenant-screening upsell, no plan to decode. Start free with one property; go Pro when you want the rest of them and the tax export.

    Free

    $0 forever

    • One property
    • Every entry type, photos and receipts
    • To-dos, nudges, reminders and contractors
    • Your deduction coverage and year totals

    Pro

    Save 27% yearly

    $79/year · about $6.58 a month

    • Everything in Free, for every property you own
    • The one-tap CSV export, every year
    • Mileage valued, capital improvements kept separate
    • Or $9/month if you'd rather

    A deductible business expense — and one repair you'd otherwise have forgotten to claim more than covers the year.

    A year of repairs,
    one clean CSV.

    Every entry you log is a deduction you can prove. Start with one property and the first thing that happened at it.

    Take the log anywhere

    A native iPhone app is on the way — log a repair from the driveway.

    Coming soon to theApp Store