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Tellus 2.0 — The ultimate real estate management platform
Tellus is a comprehensive real estate management platform for investors, homeowners, landlords, renter, property managers, agents, and service professionals.
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Lucas Lindsey
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.
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@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 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?
@conniechan not having to worry about dates towards the end of the month is a HUGE bonus as a tenant
@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
Is the fundamental difference between this and Innago the ability to do fractional mortgages?
@automateiq Hi Chris, thanks for the question!
The home loan and investing sides are just two of the many ways we differ from Innago.
Pricing is another big one, while Tellus is free, it looks like Innago charges $35 for tenant screening and $2 per bank transfer. While you could pass these costs off to your tenant, we prefer a model where everyone wins.
Tellus is committed to delivering a free rental management experience for everyone, including your tenants. That’s why our tenant screening is free to all parties. ACH transfers with Tellus are free as well.
Tellus also comes equipped with a powerful landlord-tenant chat. There’s no need to go into a clunky web portal and type out a formal message whenever you have a question. Mobile chat makes it easy to get instant responses no matter where you are.
We have plenty of other ideas in the roadmap that will keep improving the lives of landlords, tenants, and anyone else in real estate.
Awesome! Already such a cool app, but so much more exciting stuff coming down the line for Tellus. Great job on the launch guys! 👏🤯🚀
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 on the launch! The investing side looks pretty unique. Excited to see how this will affect the industry.
@blakemanzo super excited to get started trying out the new investment piece. Congratulations on the progress you guys have made!
@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.
@blakemanzo congratulations on the improvements. Outstanding achievement not seen before in this market 👏👏👏
@blakemanzo Hey Blake, it's been a while! Great to see you launched such a good product and the response to the product is also very good.
Is this product focused on the American market? And if so, are you not located in Sydney anymore?
Take care!
Jesse
@jdegger well hey mate! It sure has, and thanks!
We're currently focused in the US only, but plan to expand internationally as well. I'm based in San Francisco now - good to see you on product hunt!
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!
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.
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! 😉
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 😀
@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.
@ike18162071 @shay_scerri it's 90 minutes during regular business hours (9-5 PST)!
The best solutions quickly make you wonder how you managed without them.
This is one such solution - highly recommend the Tellus platform as a turnkey management system.
@lloyd_rogers Thank you for your kind words! We aim to be the simplest management system out there. Afterwards, we want to help you with the home you live in, the next home you want to buy, and all the properties you're going to invest in. Exciting times ahead!
@fabien_h glad to hear it - feel free to get in touch in the in-app support chat with any feedback you might have or if you have any questions!
Congrats on the release, Tellus! It's so amazing that you offer an all-in-one product for landlords and all the services are totally free. Can't wait to try the new investment feature!
@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!
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!
