Raleigh–Durham rental management

Property management you can audit.

We manage houses, townhomes and small multifamily across the Triangle for one published fee schedule: 8% of collected rent, $0 maintenance markup, and a monthly statement with every vendor invoice attached. If a fee isn't on our pricing page, we can't charge it.

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doors managed: 642
rent on time, 2025: 98.2%
median time to lease: 16 days
tenants renew: 74%

Street-front row of three tidy single-storey rental homes with grey siding, cedar accents and young landscaped yards

June statement · excerpt

Rent collected: $1,850
Management (8%): −$148
Sink repair · invoice attached: −$214
To your account: $1,488

Vendor invoice passed through at cost — markup $0.

The whole fee page, teased

Three numbers do most of the talking.

Full fee schedule

of collected rent

Our management fee is charged only on rent that actually arrives. Vacant month? You pay nothing.

50%

of one month, to place a tenant

Photos, syndication, showings, screening and the lease — once per new tenancy, with nothing added for "advertising."

maintenance markup, setup, or exit fee

Repairs pass through at vendor cost with the invoice attached. Onboarding is free. Leave any time with 30 days' notice.

What we handle

Everything between "I own it" and "it's rented, maintained and reconciled."

All services

Leasing & marketing

Priced from comps, photographed professionally, syndicated everywhere renters look — and shown by a human who answers their phone.

Tenant screening

Published, criteria-based screening applied identically to every applicant — fair-housing compliant and documented.

Rent collection & disbursement

Rent is due on the 1st, late on the 5th, and in your account by the 10th. 98.2% of rent arrived on time last year.

Maintenance & repairs

24/7 emergency line, a vetted vendor bench, and a hard rule: invoices pass through at cost, with the PDF attached to your statement.

Inspections & condition reports

Documented move-in, annual, and move-out inspections with time-stamped photos, so deposit decisions stand on evidence.

Accounting & reporting

A monthly statement your CPA will actually like: every dollar in, every dollar out, every invoice attached.

Run your own numbers

The calculator that includes our fees — all of them.

Monthly rent in, honest net-to-owner out: vacancy assumptions, a maintenance reserve, our management, leasing and renewal fees itemized — next to a DIY column, because sometimes DIY genuinely nets more on paper. The assumptions are printed, so argue with them.

Open the ROI calculator

Example · $1,850/mo rental

Gross scheduled rent, yearly: $22,200
Vacancy at turnover (printed): −$640
All Hearth & Ledger fees: −$2,312
Maintenance reserve (8%): −$1,776
Honest net to owner: $17,472

Illustrative — the calculator page shows every assumption behind these numbers and lets you change all of them.

Already have a manager? Self-managing?

Switching takes about two weeks. We do the awkward parts.

How switching works

01 · Day 0

Intro call & walkthrough

Twenty minutes on your goals and your property's condition, then a walkthrough (in person or video for out-of-state owners).
02 · Days 1–3

Agreement & handoff paperwork

Sign the management agreement (month-to-month after 90 days).
03 · Days 4–14

Transfer & tenant introduction

We collect leases, deposits, keys, and maintenance history from your old manager, move deposits into NC trust accounts, and send tenants a friendly introduction letter with new portal logins and payment instructions.
04 · By day 30

First statement

Your owner portal goes live, the condition baseline inspection is filed, and your first monthly statement — with any vendor invoices attached — lands by the 10th of the following month..

For renters

Homes available now.

Honest listings with published screening criteria — plus a tenant portal for rent and maintenance.

All 10 rentals

Navy-blue craftsman two-storey home with white trim, stone porch pillars and a landscaped front path at dusk

Available Aug 1

$2,195/mo House

1412 Hazelwood Drive

Five Points · Raleigh, NC

3 bd · 2 ba · 1,710 sqft

Dogs & cats welcome

Contemporary two-storey home with taupe siding, stone accents, a three-car garage and a wide concrete driveway

Available Aug 15

$2,650/mo House

208 Sagebrook Lane

Brier Creek · Raleigh, NC

4 bd · 2.5 ba · 2,280 sqft

Cats welcome

Brick-and-cedar ranch house with a dark shingle roof, stone garden wall and a curved concrete walk across a broad lawn

Available Now

$1,795/mo House

3306 Linden Forest Road

Forest Hills · Garner, NC

3 bd · 2 ba · 1,480 sqft

Dogs & cats welcome

Owners and tenants, unfiltered

4.5 average. We publish the four-star reviews too.

All reviews

Owner

Seven years, two properties, zero surprise line items. My statement is boring in the best possible way — every repair has the vendor's actual invoice attached. My last manager marked up a $180 faucet job to $260; these folks passed a $214 HVAC call through at $214.

Tenant

Best landlord experience I've had in Raleigh. Maintenance portal at 9pm, plumber texting me by 8am the next morning. Deposit came back in 12 days with an itemized letter and photos.

Owner

They told me NOT to renovate the kitchen yet because the rent lift wouldn't cover it for 6+ years. A management company talking itself out of a bigger leasing fee bought about a decade of my trust.

No surprises, in writing

Own a rental in the Triangle?

Get a written proposal with a rent analysis and the same fee schedule you've already read — nothing appears later.

Get a proposal Run your numbers first