No one will ever care for your rentals the way you do.

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Hi, I’m Devin.

I spent a mini-career in commercial real estate before joining Stessa in its earliest days. For nearly a decade, I worked directly with independent landlords to understand how they manage their properties, make financial decisions, and select tools and software to help them succeed. That experience gave me a clear view of why some DIY landlords thrive while others struggle and eventually walk away.

The candid reality is that there’s nothing “passive” about owning rental property, especially when you self-manage. And a lot of the tech solutions and conventional wisdom is designed to entice you in before relentlessly upselling you. Maybe you’ll need all the fancy bells and whistles someday, but in the meantime you have rents to collect and expenses to cover.

The self-managing landlord sits at a complicated intersection of real estate, personal finance, and technology. You deserve resources that help cut through the noise with actionable information, well-researched product reviews, and insights from actual experience.

After leaving Stessa, I started RentBumper to build exactly these resources, informed by years of conversations with thousands of independent landlords.