For real estate investors

Exit value is built
11 years before the sale.

Spreadsheets don't scale past three properties, and retroactive documentation at exit costs $5K–$20K in inspection credits per door. Real Estate Ledger is the audit-ready record layer that runs alongside your PM stack — capturing every permit, repair, and vendor across the portfolio while you still remember which deal they belong to.

Up to 10 properties on the free tier · Enterprise pricing for 11+

Portfolio Q1

7 · Audit-ready

$2.8M

Doors value

453

Docs filed

100%

Verified

  • 1402 Riverview Dr

    Austin, TX

    $485K

  • 88 Magnolia Ave

    Nashville, TN

    $312K

  • 2210 Linden Ct

    Boise, ID

    $398K

  • 519 Marigold Ln

    Phoenix, AZ

    $425K

+ 3 properties · free tier Open dashboard →

$5K–$20K

Inspection credits avoided per documented exit

10

Free properties on the standard tier

11 years

Median holding period (NAR 2025)

The portfolio pain

Documentation debt compounds with every property you add.

Stessa balances the books. Buildium runs the operations. Neither produces a defensible, transferable property record at exit. Investors patch the gap with Google Drive folders that don't survive a buyer's due diligence.

  • No portfolio-wide search across permits, warranties, and contractor invoices
  • Vendor history fragments across managers, properties, and years
  • Buyers at exit demand inspection credits on undocumented improvements
  • Adding "another tool" feels like overhead — until the spreadsheet breaks
How Real Estate Ledger fits the stack

A documentation layer, not a property management replacement.

Tool
Where it lives
Where Real Estate Ledger fits
Stessa
Bookkeeping, rent rolls, P&L
Real Estate Ledger captures everything that isn't a transaction: permits, warranties, contractor work, inspections.
Buildium / AppFolio
Tenant operations, leases, maintenance dispatch
Real Estate Ledger holds the receipts when a tenant move-out or insurance claim needs proof of work.
Google Drive
Generic file storage
Real Estate Ledger replaces the folder-of-folders with property-anchored organization and tamper-evident provenance.
Portfolio-grade tooling

Built for two doors or ten.

Multi-property dashboard

Switch between properties without rebuilding the folder structure each time. Search across the entire portfolio.

AI document categorization at scale

Drop a year's worth of contractor invoices, permits, and lease addenda. AI sorts them by property and system.

Per-property Property Guidebook

When it's time to sell or refinance, generate the audit-ready report in a click.

Vendor history that travels

The roofer, the plumber, the HVAC tech you used three years ago — and what they did, when, for how much.

Aerial view of a suburban housing development — every roof a property record

Per-property activity log

Every door in the portfolio. Every action. Audit-ready.

When a buyer asks "what's the maintenance history on Unit 3?" the answer is one click, not three days of inbox archaeology. Every permit, every contractor invoice, every inspection report is logged with a tamper-evident timestamp.

1402 Riverview Dr · Activity

Last 30 days
  • Apr 12

    Texas Pro Roofing

    Filed inspection report

    Roof
  • Apr 04

    You

    Approved 14 AI-categorized invoices

    Bulk
  • Mar 28

    Bluebonnet HVAC

    Service receipt + photos

    HVAC
  • Mar 19

    City of Austin

    Permit issued (deck rebuild)

    Permit
  • Mar 11

    Allstate

    Policy renewed

    Insurance
The math on documentation

Retroactive at exit is the most expensive way to document a property.

Reconstructing the file after a buyer asks for it costs lawyer time, lost negotiating leverage, and inspection-credit concessions on items you can't prove. The cheapest version of this is to capture it as it happens.

  • $5K–$20K average inspection-credit erosion per undocumented exit
  • ~10% of contracts delayed by inspection findings (NAR 2025)
  • Documented HVAC, roof, and electrical maintenance are the top three negotiation points

Start documenting before the exit timeline starts.

Free for up to 10 properties. Talk to sales for 11+ or for white-label and SAML/SSO.