RentRedi Review: The $12 Deal Is Real. One Gap Costs You at Tax Time.

I build a competing app, so read this with that in mind. I also verified everything below inside a live RentRedi account, because the marketing pages alone were not enough for a review. Here is the short version: the $12-a-month annual plan is real, it covers unlimited units, and every feature they advertise is actually in there. Rent collection, screening, listings, maintenance, and a genuinely useful built-in accounting suite. No add-on required for income and expense tracking.

There is exactly one gap I could not close, and it happens to be the thing my app is built around. More on that in a minute.

Every price below was checked against RentRedi's live pricing page and help center on August 17, 2026, and against REI Hub's standalone pricing the same day. Annual is compared to annual, monthly to monthly, throughout.

What is RentRedi?

RentRedi is a mobile-first property management app for independent landlords, founded in 2016. One subscription covers unlimited properties, unlimited tenants, and unlimited teammates: rent collection, tenant screening, listings, maintenance requests, and a tenant portal, all in one app. The iOS app holds a 4.8 rating across roughly 15,000 reviews, the strongest mobile signal in the category.

The pricing model is one sentence long: pick a billing cycle, get everything. There is no per-unit fee, and no feature gate on the subscription itself. I went looking for the tier where the good stuff disappears. It is not there.

What does RentRedi actually cost?

Two plans exist: the one you will actually buy, and an enterprise option.

Plan	Monthly billing	Annual billing (effective)	What changes
Grow	$29.95/mo	$12/mo ($144/yr)	Everything: listings, screening, maintenance, e-signatures, accounting suite
Pro	Custom (call)	Custom (call)	Grow + dedicated account manager, priority support

Source: RentRedi pricing page.

The Grow annual plan is the headline: $144 once a year, every feature, unlimited units. Two duplexes, a fourplex, sixty doors, same $144. Paying $29.95 month-to-month for more than one evaluation cycle is lighting about $215 a year on fire, but with a 30-day money-back guarantee, one monthly cycle to test it, then annual, is the sane path.

What do the tenants pay?

Nearly every per-transaction fee defaults to the tenant, with the landlord holding an opt-in to absorb it.

Fee	Amount	Who pays (default)	Source
Tenant screening (credit, criminal, eviction)	$39.99, or $49.99 with income verification	Tenant	Pricing page
ACH rent payment	$1.00 per transaction	Tenant (landlord can absorb)	Help center
Card rent payment	3.1% + $0.30	Tenant (landlord can absorb)	Help center
Cash rent via Chime retail network	$1 per payment	Tenant	RentRedi blog
Credit reporting (rent to bureaus)	$5.99/mo	Landlord or tenant	Pricing page

A $1 ACH fee is mild as these things go. TurboTenant charges $2, waived only on their $199/yr Pro plan. But it is not nothing: a $1,500 rent paid by card costs the tenant about $46.80 in fees. Most landlords I know either absorb the ACH fee or eat the awkward conversation.

What about the accounting?

Better than I expected, and I checked it inside a live account.

RentRedi's built-in Accounting Suite (AI receipt capture, expense categorization, Schedule E summaries, P&L reports, bank feeds, mileage tracking) is included in your subscription at no extra charge. No add-on needed for income and expense tracking; it is all unlocked. RentRedi's own guide to its accounting options pitches it at "independent landlords or small portfolios who want automation without complex bookkeeping," and that is an honest description.

Every expense gets booked two ways: to a property and to a Schedule E category through the "Book To" dropdown, which lists the standard categories (Advertising, Auto and Travel, Cleaning and Maintenance, and so on) plus one called Depreciation. The Accounting Suite overview and the how to add expenses article both describe the same model: property plus category, receipt attached, done. Reports follow the same shape: a Schedule E report and an Income and Expense report, each by property or consolidated across the portfolio.

It is not double-entry accounting: no general ledger, no balance sheet, no trial balance, no trust accounting. For that, RentRedi sells REI Hub as an add-on, priced by unit count and billed monthly on top of your subscription:

REI Hub tier (via RentRedi)	Units	Monthly cost	Annual cost
Essentials	1–3 units	$25/mo	$300/yr
Growth	4–10 units	$39/mo	$468/yr
Investor	11–20 units	$59/mo	$708/yr
Professional	Unlimited units	$99/mo	$1,188/yr

Source: RentRedi help center, REI Hub pricing.

One wrinkle worth your attention before you buy either ladder: REI Hub sells the same product standalone at reihub.net/pricing: a free tier at every unit band, plus a Professional plan at $9/mo billed annually for up to 3 units, $15/mo up to 10, $27/mo up to 20, and $48/mo unlimited. Apples to apples at 4–10 units: the RentRedi bundle is $39/mo, monthly only, while REI Hub direct is $15/mo annual or $25/mo month-to-month. Against the annual direct plan that is a $288-a-year premium for the integration convenience, where your RentRedi data flows into REI Hub automatically. Against monthly direct, $168 a year. Whether that convenience is worth it is a real question.

Most small landlords will never need it. What they will need is the thing in the next section.

Does RentRedi group expenses into jobs?

No. And this is the gap that matters.

Here is the scenario. You renovate a unit kitchen in March. The receipts pile up across six weeks: cabinets, a countertop, a plumber, a dishwasher, paint, three Home Depot runs. At tax time, your accountant's first question is not "what category is this?" It is "which receipts belong to that project?" Because context determines tax treatment: the new cabinets and countertop are a capital improvement depreciated over time, the plumbing repair and the paint might be deductible this year, and the answer changes your return by hundreds or thousands of dollars. An untagged pile of category-labeled receipts cannot answer that question.

RentRedi cannot group those receipts into a job. I looked for it and it is not there. The "Depreciation" entry in the Book To dropdown sits beside the other Schedule E categories as if the treatment were already decided, but there is no way to mark six receipts as "March kitchen reno," and no report that groups them. The P&L report can group by property. That is the only grouping dimension in the product. Depreciation shows up as a flat line item.

I have seen where this ends. Landlords I know hand their accountant a folder of receipts and have no idea what they are paying for. The accountant bills hours reconstructing which receipts belonged to which project, and the answer still is not accurate, because the context only existed in the landlord's head back in March. This is not a RentRedi-only problem, to be fair. Stessa charges $28/mo for Projects, and even then I found the workflow so complicated I quit. It took a full weekend of learning before you are doing actual bookkeeping. But "everyone gets it wrong" does not make it less wrong.

This is the exact problem Doortrackr was built around: every expense can be tied to a Job (a renovation, a turnover, a repair saga) from a dropdown right in the receipt form, the receipt gets auto-named to match, and the grouping is there when your accountant asks. The category answers "what line does this go on." The Job answers "what was this for." You need both, and one of them is missing here.

So what's the real monthly cost?

For a 3-unit landlord who wants receipt scanning and a Schedule E report, comparing annual to annual where annual exists:

Scenario	Effective monthly	Annual cost
RentRedi Grow annual, included Accounting Suite covers you	$12/mo	$144/yr
RentRedi Grow annual + REI Hub Essentials add-on (monthly-only)	$12 + $25 = $37/mo	$444/yr
RentRedi Grow monthly + REI Hub Essentials	$29.95 + $25 = $54.95/mo	$659.40/yr
REI Hub standalone Professional, 1–3 units, annual, no RentRedi	$9/mo	$108/yr

The subscription headline is $12, and the headline is honest. The stack only moves if you need double-entry books.

What is RentRedi genuinely good at?

Rent collection is the core product, and it shows. Tenants can pay by ACH, card, or cash at 90,000+ Chime retail locations. AutoPay and automatic late fees are built in. Payouts land in 2–3 business days at no charge. Listing syndication, flat $39.99 applicant-paid screening, live phone support 9–5 EST, 24/7 chat.

And this part I will concede happily, because it is genuinely better than what I built: when a tenant pays rent through RentRedi, the transaction records itself. Income tracking is automatic. In Doortrackr, an income entry is a manual 10-second job, or a CSV upload if you are catching up. If your tenants actually pay through the app, RentRedi's books fill themselves in a way mine do not. That is a real feature, and pretending otherwise would make this review worthless.

Where does it fall short?

The jobs gap above is the big one. Past that: the accounting is a summary layer: no general ledger, no balance sheet, no trial balance, no trust accounting. No API, no QuickBooks sync, no owner portal. If you manage properties for other people, this is the wrong tool. The app is mobile-first to a fault; the desktop experience feels like an afterthought. Tenant-side fees are cheaper than some competitors but still land on your tenants every month. Premium maintenance coordination (24/7 answering and dispatch) is a Latchel add-on at $25/mo plus $4–$12 per unit depending on service level, per Latchel's landlord page. Since it no longer appears on RentRedi's pricing page, treat those numbers as directional and confirm before you count on them.

The bigger honest point: RentRedi is a property management app with bookkeeping attached. Doortrackr is the opposite shape. If you want one app your tenants pay through, that shape argues for RentRedi. If you want the fastest possible path from receipt to Schedule E, with every expense tied to the job it belonged to, it argues against.

How does it compare to the alternatives?

For a 3-unit landlord who needs receipt scanning, a Schedule E report, and job-level organization: true cost, verified against live pricing pages today. (Same math on TurboTenant in that review.)

Tool	What you actually pay for receipts + Schedule E + job grouping	Effective monthly	Annual
Doortrackr Plus	Everything unlocked, no gates, unlimited receipts, Jobs on every plan	$6.99	$83.88
RentRedi Grow (annual)	Included Accounting Suite; no job/project grouping at any price	$12	$144
RentRedi + REI Hub	Full double-entry accounting, 1–3 units; no job grouping	$37	$444
REI Hub standalone	Full double-entry accounting, 1–3 units, annual billing	$9	$108
Stessa Pro	Unlimited receipt scanning + Schedule E + Projects	$28	$336
Landlord Studio Pro	Receipt scanning + Schedule E, 3 units	$12	$144
TurboTenant Pro	Full accounting (Schedule E, P&L, depreciation)	~$16.58	$199
QuickBooks Simple Start	Full accounting, not landlord-native	$38	$456

RentRedi at $144/yr is the cheapest path to property management with some bookkeeping attached, as long as "some bookkeeping" does not include knowing which receipts belonged to the kitchen reno. If it does, you are looking at Doortrackr at $83.88 or Stessa Pro at $336, and nothing in between.

I built Doortrackr because I did not want to play the tier game. One flat price, every feature, no add-on ladder. Receipt entries take 30 seconds or less, income entries about 10, Jobs and Schedule E on every plan including the free one. That is the whole pitch, and I will put it next to anyone's pricing page, including this one, which holds up better than most.

If you are still spreadsheet-curious, we give away the rental income and expense spreadsheet we built before we built the app. It is genuinely fine at one property. We also keep a running best accounting software for rental property comparison if you want the full field.

Is RentRedi right for you?

Yes, if: you have 2–50 units, your main pain is rent collection and tenant management, you want one app your tenants actually use, and your bookkeeping needs are category-level: money in, money out, by property, Schedule E at year end. At $144/yr annual it is the cheapest full-featured option in the category, and everything they say is included checks out when you verify it inside the app. That makes it a pretty good deal.

No, if: you manage properties for other owners (no trust accounting or owner portal), you need a general ledger (that is the REI Hub add-on), you want an API or QuickBooks sync, you renovate or turn over units and need expenses grouped by project (no job grouping exists at any price), or you have one stable unit and just need expense tracking (a spreadsheet or Doortrackr's free plan is enough).

The one-month test: sign up for Grow monthly at $29.95, connect a property, run your real receipts through the Accounting Suite, and try to answer this question with their reports: "what did the bathroom remodel cost me, all in?" If the answer comes easy, you have found your tool. If it does not, you know what the $144 buys and what it does not. The money-back guarantee makes it a free look.

Frequently asked questions

Is RentRedi really $12 a month?

Yes, on annual billing: you pay $144 once a year. The same Grow plan costs $29.95 month-to-month, and there is a custom-priced Pro plan for large portfolios. All Grow features are identical across billing cycles, and every plan covers unlimited units. Source

Does RentRedi include accounting?

Yes. The built-in Accounting Suite (AI receipt capture, expense categorization, Schedule E summaries, P&L reports, bank feeds, mileage) is included in your subscription at no extra cost, with no add-on needed for income and expense tracking. Full double-entry accounting via the REI Hub add-on costs $25–$99/mo by unit count. Source

Can RentRedi group expenses by project or job?

No. Expenses are assigned to a property and a Schedule E category (via the Book To field, which includes a Depreciation category), but there is no project or job grouping, and neither the Schedule E nor the Income and Expense report groups by project. The P&L groups by property only. Landlords tracking renovations or turnovers by project need a tool with job-level organization. Source

What does REI Hub cost through RentRedi?

$25/mo for 1–3 units, $39/mo for 4–10, $59/mo for 11–20, $99/mo unlimited, billed monthly on top of your subscription. REI Hub standalone starts at $9/mo billed annually (1–3 units) with a free tier at every unit band. Source

What fees do tenants pay on RentRedi?

Tenants pay $1.00 per ACH rent payment, 3.1% + $0.30 for card payments, $39.99–$49.99 for screening, $1 for cash payments via Chime's retail network, and optionally $5.99/mo for credit reporting. Landlords can absorb the ACH and card fees. Source

Is RentRedi good for a landlord with 1–3 units?

It can be, if rent collection and tenant management are your main needs and category-level bookkeeping covers you. At $144/yr annual it is the cheapest full-featured option. If you renovate or turn over units and need project-level cost tracking, there is no job grouping at any price. Doortrackr includes Jobs on every plan at $6.99/mo, and its free plan covers one property with everything unlocked.

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Doortrackr is rental property bookkeeping made stupid simple: AI receipt scanning, property and job organization, and IRS-ready Schedule E reports, free for one property and $6.99/month flat after that. Try it free.

Disclosure: Doortrackr publishes this blog and sells the software this article compares against RentRedi. Competitor pricing and features were pulled from RentRedi's live pricing page and help center, REI Hub's standalone pricing, and a live RentRedi account on August 17, 2026, with links above, so verify before you buy, because pricing pages change more often than furnace filters.