Tellus is a comprehensive real estate management platform for investors, homeowners, landlords, renter, property managers, agents, and service professionals.
Hi! My name is Blake and I helped build this real estate platform. When I first became interested in real estate, I was surprised how fragmented this industry is. Real estate professionals have to cobble together their own collection of apps and software instead of keeping everything in one place.
Tellus started with rental management in mind, combining finances, paying rent, communication, maintenance, and leases all in one place.
This new version of Tellus has some exciting improvements: our expansion to investments and home loans. Real estate has typically been an illiquid asset class, but our goal is to make it easier for anyone owning property to access their money. We’re also helping investors diversify their portfolio by offering opportunities to invest in mortgage fractions. Investors earn money each day, and there’s ultimate flexibility to sell the stake at any time.
I’m excited to see how these two new angles open up new doors for real estate professionals as we continue to build out our platform. Some other changes include a new and improved Android app and some major improvements to our rental management product based on your feedback.
Both myself and the entire Tellus team are committed to making the user experience the best it can be. We would love to hear what you think!
@blakemanzo Congrats. The design of this application is beautiful. I see a fantastic dedication to providing the user with a plug and play experience in an industry that needs more efficiency and effort. TellusApp delivers a blueprint for how the Real Estate industry should care about constantly revamping processes to allow agility to scale with the constant change in technology. The design and details put into making this app user-friendly and not overburdening with instruction are appreciated, especially for such a complicated industry of Real estate. As a renter, thank you for making this stress free and effortless to conduct business.
Excited to have another entrant in this space. I use Cozy, but Cozy won't allow a single account to be both a landlord and renter (a la, say, AirBnb). I know this is an unusual case, but I have to manage two separate Cozy logins. For whatever reason, I never put in our lease dates into Cozy (maybe that's not easy to do?), and so Cozy let the lease get close to lapsing without reminding us. One tenant pays me using Zelle, and I wish I could have insight into my payments in one place.
@benjamin_wheeler I completely understand this conundrum. I shared this app with my landlord who I rent their private home. His mouth dropped when I showed him what the TellusApp can do. Tenant screening, receive payments, chatting with tenants, and processing a service order requests all in the same app without needing to use his personal number to contact multiple tenants. Organized, efficient, intuitive, and FREE--this is a no brainer. Indeed a one stop shop platform for managing properties for landlords and keeping renters honest and worry free over rent paying.
@benjamin_wheeler We started Tellus to solve these very problems! Simple reminders that your lease is expiring or how to digitally accept rent... you would think these things would be easier! So many people we know, before Tellus, had to resort to little tricks like setting rent amounts with _pennies_ so they can easily tell who paid them rent when they go through their bank records (e.g. unit 1 pays $1,000.01, unit 2 pays $1,500.02).
We aim to solve all these problems and more! :)
@benjamin_wheeler Like you, I'm both a landlord and a renter and so when Cozy wouldn't allow my existing profile to access the landlord side it was an easy decision to look into Tellus. They now handle my tenant correspondence and overall lease management. Tellus DOES EVERYTHING, the app even reminded me that November rent is due soon and will be on the way. Cozy not so cozy; Tellus just gets better and better.
@natesmoyer I enjoyed using Avail but it was just too expensive. I paid a base price of $50 a month, and that didn’t even include extras like tenant screening ($55 per report!). While it was a step up from Cozy, Avail wasn’t compelling enough for me to justify the cost.
I started looking for other options and found Tellus. Guys, it’s totally free. I literally save hundreds of dollars each year. And you’ve got to try their listing feature. I thought I had applicants before. Now I can barely keep up with the number of leads pouring in…easily 3x as many as before!
The real estate world has been waiting for a platform like this. I can't express how intuitive this app is, Tellus does not only benefit landlords but tenants as well. It's amazing to me that something this special comes at no cost. Congratulations on the release, I love that there is now an app that is not just rental management but much more! Can't wait to explore the investment and home loan side of Tellus!
@samantha_spotswood@liviakeene I also can't wait to see what the investment product looks like. On the website, it sounds like it will be backed by collateral (the property itself) and lets you buy in at a low minimum of $200.
@samantha_spotswood@liviakeene our investments are safe. Unlike stocks that can become worthless overnight, having your money backed by real property ensures your investments are secured by land and retain their value.
And unlike other real estate investment opportunities, you have the option of trading out of your investments at any time. Since your investments are backed, secured, and tradable, we see this like a high-yield account with even better returns.
Totally agree with you Blake. I've loved building out the Tellus platform right from the start, the whole team is committed to creating a great and hassle free experience and it's been a pleasure working with everyone.
I use it for rent collection and have seen a real improvement in tenants paying on time. It's such a win-win, tenants are happy they don't have to stress about it every month and I rest easy knowing that I'll get alerted if rent is late. Landlording takes time but this makes it easy. what's your favorite feature?
@danilobecke Nice! I haven't had to use the tenant screening yet since I haven't had renter turnover so far. But for tenant chat and reimbursements and rent collect it's great. My tenants like it a lot
I started using this to pay my rent and its been a dream
I used to use a check but now I just setup autopay and never have to remember to pay rent again it all happens automatically 😀
@pekane17 Really glad to hear that! Autopay is one of our more popular features. We have so many landlords tell us that they stopped chasing rent after using Tellus and tenants can't imagine renting without us. I'm glad we got this one right!
Been interacting with the Tellus team a lot via Twitter and just have to say they are engaged, thoughtful, and clearly motivated to talk and listen to potential customers. I work in RE and see multi family in our future. Definitely considering this product as a management tool.
@urbnist Thanks Lucas! I appreciate your feedback and hope we meet your expectations for a rental management tool.
We’re always working on making the app better based on comments and requests from our users. If there’s anything you’d like to see, please let us know!
I have used the listing and screening features to help find tenants and the service is incredible. The listing syndication service is a huge time saver and the free screening has been a godsend. I'm also excited to give the new investment feature a try!
@ike18162071 a lot of the screening part of the product was influenced by my own problems applying for places as a tenant - it was a nightmare having to sign up for an account for a background check, download a random PDF for an application, and then go and join a different platform to pay rent, all while communicating over email and phone.
I wanted to try to bring this all together into ONE place, and this benefits everyone involved!
@blakemanzo That's awesome, I especially appreciate the fact that the screening reports are free! I can't wait to check out all the recent improvements you guys have made with this new release.
Congratulations on the release! I love how easy the app has been to use, and I can't wait to test out the mortgage product when it becomes available in Chicago. As a multifamily real estate investor, financing has always been difficult. I am excited to see the opportunities this will open up.
@joanne_poon Thanks!! We're aiming to help your entire real estate investing business. This is just the tip of the iceberg! Imagine when researching, financing, management, reporting, communication, servicing, and so much more can all happen in one place!
This is such a game changer for landlords and renters! The investment aspect seems super interesting as well! So thrilled for this!! Congratulations on the release and mad props to the whole Tellus team! 👏
Fantastic user experience! I currently use cozy - but its not nearly as easy as this!! Can’t wait to make the switch.
Super excited to also start investing in property/real estate via Tellus!
@luke_exton1 Thanks Luke! We're excited to get you on board. After you start, feel free to drop us a note in the in-app Support Chat. Mention you found us on Product Hunt and we'll be sure to make sure you can get all your properties migrated over seamlessly! 😉
Really like the purple color look and feel! UI is neat and simple. and The investment piece and wallet are beautifully done! Cool product! cant believe it is free!
@aqiris thanks! Many real estate tools are often clunky and hard to use or require a crash course just to get up to speed, we're trying hard to make it as beautiful and simple to use as possible!
@kavya_cheruku I’m glad you asked! Some of our next initiatives are around service providers (think gardening, painting, landscaping, just about anything you need around the home).
We already help people find pros near them, and the natural next step is to get service providers directly involved in the process.
We’re also working on tools for real estate agents around marketing, buying and selling homes!
@max_louis_menzel it’s true there’s a lot of competition. But the way we see it, the real estate industry is so fragmented and broken. At this point in time, there’s no single product that can meet the needs of such a drastically diverse group. Our hope is that by combining everything into one platform, we can make life easier for everyone involved. This is also gives us an edge in a competitive space!
Our hope is that if you’re already on Tellus collecting rent you need to refinance your home, it wouldn’t be a huge leap to go through us. After all, our streamlined digital application and better rates can only sweeten the deal.
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