I started buying homes, fixing them up, and selling them — and I learned quickly how much work it takes to make a property profitable. There are a lot of moving pieces, and none of them wait. At the time I was finishing my career in the Air National Guard, working full time as a software engineer, and raising a large family. A job and a large family is a lot on its own.
Two months into that first rehab I knew I needed a way to track it. I started the way everyone does: a spreadsheet. Excel only goes so far. That first project was a large, complex home in New Orleans, and there was too much to keep in a grid. In my free time I began building a system to record the numbers and figures. Over the next few years, I kept building.
In 2025 I decided the tool that already ran my rentals and rehabs should become a product other operators could use. After more than a year of work — and a lot of help from family and friends — we shipped Tenantivo.