AuthorJacob Thomason

Co-founder & CEO @ RentPost, entrepreneur, real estate obsessed, engineer, blockchain enthusiast, extreme sports lover, traveler, fitness centered, intellectual and conceptual conversationalist.

Start Accepting Rent Payments in Canada

We’re excited to welcome Canadian property management companies and US companies that manage properties for Canadian owners. RentPost now, with the release of version 4.3, supports Canadian bank accounts through Payshift, our payments engine. If you’re a Canadian company that’s been looking for a modern, user-friendly and flexible, management platform, give us a shot. We think...

More Goodies – a new Onboarding Wizard, a Guided Tour and Custom Surcharges

We’ve been busy and we’re happy to announce version 4.2 of RentPost is officially live! Sign into your account to check out the new features! Onboarding Wizard We’ve added a brand new Onboarding Wizard that will walk new users through setting up their account for the first time, allowing them to add some important and personalized data. Existing users won’t see this...

Tenant Lease Balance Terminology

We’ve recently pushed out a series of updates around balances within the RentPost system.  These updates have included a lot of core changes that enable us to provide faster load times and increased accuracy of balances across the various pages and portals. Over the next few months you’ll start to see more balance related terminology used within RentPost.  Already visible on your...

Add more files – double up!

We want everyone to be able to store whatever it is they need within their RentPost account for later reference and good house-keeping.  So, effective today, we’ve doubled the amount of storage on all plans.  When logging into your RentPost account, you should now notice more available storage, right away.  So, get to uploading!

Accepting Partial Payments from Tenants

Every landlord and property manager knows that collecting rent can be a hassle.  Luckily with systems like RentPost, your life is made easier.  We’ve now gone one step further to make the process a little more protective during a potential eviction process. RentPost supports partial payments.  We strongly believe that by allowing partial payments, not only do you increase...

If it Sounds too Good to be True…

It’s recently come to our attention that an individual(s) believed to be in the Czech Republic (probably looking something like the guy on the left) is luring tenants, primarily out of Canada, to attractive rental properties at great rental rates, only to be scammed into wiring funds to an overseas bank account.  It’s sad, it’s unfortunate, it’s elaborate, and it’s...

Email Delivery and Recurring Late Fees

We’re happy to announce the latest update to the RentPost system.  Just this past week we’ve been pushing out a series of releases around two different systems.  The first is our email system.  We’ve made some infrastructure improvements to how email is handled and delivered through RentPost.  Our hope is that this will continue to increase our deliverability rate.  We...