Castle
Castle manages rental homes using automation and on-demand labor.
Castle manages rental homes for landlords using automation and on-demand labor. We find tenants, collect rent, and coordinate maintenance, allowing owners to kick back, relax, and never worry about their rental properties again. Owners either have to deal with this whole mess themselves, or spend 10% of their rental income on a traditional property management company that requires constant supervision and is often incentivized to act against the owner’s best interest. There are 43 million rental units in the United States, and most of them are currently managed with some combination of faxes, mail, and unreturned voicemails on the landlord’s personal phone. Castle moves all of property management into a seamless online experience, providing owners with transparency, speed, and incredible customer service—plus huge cost savings over traditional management. Renters get great service and instant updates about important issues.
Former Founders
Tim Dingman
YC W16, VFA '12, Brown '11/'12 Current goal: liberate humanity from work
Max Nussenbaum
I'm a product- and design-focused founder who likes to jump in early and get my hands as dirty as possible. At various other points in my life I’ve been a graphic designer, web developer, fiction writer, freestyle rapper, game show contestant, musical lyricist, and probably a few other things.
Scott Lowe
Selected answers from Castle's original YC application for the W16 Batch
Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.
Scalable, distributed property management.
How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.
We started in September 2014. ~22,000 lines of code.
What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
Castle finds tenants, collects rent, and coordinates maintenance for residential rental properties. We automate this process with software and on-demand labor.