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From the workbench of Brad Shortridge

Rental AppNest.

Rental applications, live in minutes.

Build a custom application, share one link, collect applicants. Go live for $5.

Visit RentalAppNest rentalappnest.com
The project
RentalAppNest
The category
SaaS · Property
Built for
Landlords & property managers
Status
Live · $5 to go live
01 / Behind the project

Set it up over coffee. Send it before lunch.

Every build starts
with a good question.

Small landlords usually collect applications the hard way: emailed PDFs, photos of paper forms, and a spreadsheet to keep it all straight. Big property managers have portals. The person renting out one house doesn’t.

RentalAppNest gives that landlord a real application in minutes: pick the questions, match the look, share a link and review every applicant in one place.

02 / A closer look

A closer look.

RentalAppNest.

The front door

The promise up front: create a custom rental application, share a single link and collect applicants. Design it for free; pay $5 when you’re ready to go live.

Product screenshots · customer details removed

03 / Why I built it

Why I built it.

Renting out a place shouldn’t require a property-management system. I wanted something a landlord could set up in one sitting and send to applicants the same day.

The decisions that mattered

The decisions
that mattered.

  • Pay to publish, not to try. Design for free; $5 when it goes live.
  • One link per property. Easy to text, post or put on a sign.
  • Recommended questions built in. A first-time landlord doesn’t miss anything important.
  • Respect the applicant’s time. The form shows how long it takes before anyone starts.
For the technically curious

Pop the hood.
  • Question builder: starter template, question library, required and recommended flags, reordering and duplication.
  • Questions, design, settings and live preview tabs in one editor.
  • A public link per listing (rentalappnest.com/apply/your-listing).
  • Applicant tracking with new-applicant and incomplete-verification alerts.
From the builder’s notebook
If I’ve said it out loud, I’ll probably end up building it.

Meet RentalAppNest.

Curious? Take a look for yourself.

Open rentalappnest.com

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