My name is Matt McWilliam, I'm the Founder of Rent Merchant - Hello!

[Matt McWilliam]

Hello Fellow BP Members,

I'm posting here to say hello and introduce myself to the community. Feel free to ask me anything.

My name is Matt McWilliam.
I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally from Ohio - Go Bucks!
In my free time I like the outdoors, water sports, off-roading, golfing, and traveling.
My day-to-day typically revolves around software design and development, working with customers and clients, and of course, researching everything and anything real estate related.

I've been a lurking Pro member since 2017!

As the title states, I currently own and am the sole founder of a property management software platform called Rent Merchant (https://www.rentmerchant.com). I came up with the idea for the platform while studying Business in college at Kent State University back in 2006 and eventually founded the business in 2009. It's taken me many years to learn, grow, and adapt to what it has become today and I'm still learning and trying to grow daily. I'm really excited to introduce Rent Merchant to the BP community too, but admittedly a little nervous.

From posting here, I hope to gain some connections, make meaningful friendships, and most of all, offer value back to the BP community any way that I can.

If you have any questions about me or my software, send me a message. I'll gladly reply as fast as I can. :)

Thanks y'all.

-Matt

[Matt McWilliam]

Hmm, I feel like we are comparing David to Goliath here, but I'm sure there's a few benefits somewhere as we have stood the test of time with 14 years in business and having a sizeable number of active users with no complaints from their tenants.

Although Rent Merchant lacks some of the great features that other PM software providers have, I'm constantly working on building the platform towards a future of providing great, high quality, affordable features, and solutions that landlords and property management firms large and small will find value in and benefit from.

Currently, a lot of my customers seem to be smaller unit holding landlords (<25 units) and smaller or average sized apartment and commercial properties. I'm guessing this is due to not having all of the features and benefits that the big boys do (accounting integration, large staff sizes, VC funding, etc.) or maybe it's something else. I've never done any sales or marketing for the business, every customer found the platform 100% organically. I'm still a little guy!

Regardless, I hear what you're saying: Matt show me the benefits. To that, I say our pricing is very fair and affordable and the software is clean, simple, and easy to use. The barrier to entry is low, especially for your average property manager in an apartment building or office setting - who I primarily designed it for.

Thanks for asking the tough questions though, I hope to set my horizons even higher now. Let me know if you have any questions! :)

-Matt