For self-managing landlords with 1–10 units
Your rentals’ books, tax-ready every day of the year.
A rent ledger and expense tracker that maps everything to Schedule E categories as you go — so April is an export, not an archaeology dig through sticky notes and seventeen spreadsheet tabs.
Sound familiar?
“Sticky notes, random spreadsheets, and memory … it’s catching up to me.”— r/Landlord
“How do you keep track of expenses for tax deductions? (asked monthly, forever)”— r/Landlord
“Transactions not saving, bank feed broken again.”— r/Landlord, on the free option
Four different landlords in r/Landlord got fed up enough to build their own tracker in the last year alone. The free tool loses data; the paid ones want you to be a property-management company. The gap is reliability plus tax-first design.
What Landlord Ledger does
Per-property rent ledger
Every unit’s rent, late fees and deposits, with paid/unpaid status at a glance.
Snap-a-receipt expenses
Photo in, categorized expense out — repairs vs. improvements handled correctly from day one.
Schedule E mapping built in
Every category is an IRS Schedule E line. Your year-end export drops straight into TurboTax or your CPA’s inbox.
Lease & deposit reminders
Lease renewals, rent-increase windows and deposit-return deadlines, surfaced before they bite.
No forced bank feed
CSV import from any bank when you want it; manual entry when you don’t. Nothing breaks because a bank API had a bad week.
Honest pricing, decided up front
Waitlist members can reserve founder pricing: $9/mo — locked in for as long as you stay subscribed. That's $3/mo off, forever, for backing this before it exists.
No card required to reserve. No per-seat surprises later. If Landlord Ledger doesn't launch, you've spent nothing and you'll get a straight answer about why.
You're on the list. One more thing —
Want to reserve founder pricing ($9/mo instead of $12/mo, locked for life)? It costs nothing now and just tells me you'd genuinely pay — which decides what gets built first.
You're in. Thank you.
I'll only email you with real progress or a launch date. If you have opinions about what Landlord Ledger must get right, reply to the confirmation — I read everything.
Who's building this?
I'm Aaron — a solo developer. I found thread after thread of people describing this exact problem, and I'd rather prove demand honestly (this page) than build in a vacuum. Toolshed Software's whole model: small tools, flat prices, no per-seat games, no venture pressure to raise prices on you later.
Fair questions
- Is this a real product?
- It's in active development. This waitlist decides what ships first — enough interest and Landlord Ledger gets finished and launched; not enough and I'll email you an honest "it's not happening" instead of pretending. Your signup is the vote.
- What will it cost at launch?
- $12 per month — all properties included — the price is on this page because hiding pricing until launch is how you end up with HoneyBook math. Founder reservations keep $9/mo for life.
- What happens to my email?
- It sits in a database with a timestamp and where you came from. You'll get at most a handful of progress emails and one launch email. No sharing, no selling, one-click unsubscribe.