For Columbus, OH landlords and property managers
The AI property manager for Columbus rentals
The rental market in Columbus spans Ohio State's massive student market, Short North apartments, and affordable doubles across the city. RentShepherd is the AI property manager built to cover all of it — answering tenants day and night, turning repair complaints into tracked work orders with photos, chasing rent politely, and flagging every lease renewal months ahead.
Why Columbus landlords hand the phone to RentShepherd
A unit in the Short North and a house out toward German Village generate the same work: Ohio State's massive student market, Short North apartments, and affordable doubles across the city, plus the maintenance requests, rent questions, and lease deadlines that come with them. RentShepherd puts one tireless front line on your whole Columbus portfolio, so the only messages that reach you are the ones that need you.
For the out-of-town owner with a rental in Columbus, RentShepherd means no more missed 2am calls from a different time zone. For the local landlord, it means the phone finally goes quiet. For property management companies across Ohio, it means every tenant thread answered, triaged, and logged per building — around the clock.
Features
What RentShepherd handles for Columbus rentals
One platform, one inbox, one dashboard — these are the jobs it does for Columbus portfolios every day.
Tenant calls and texts, covered around the clock
Tenants across Columbus message or call one number and always get a real reply in seconds — questions answered, requests logged, urgency assessed. Calls are answered by a calm voice and transcribed into the same inbox, so you read the thread on your schedule, not theirs.
Repair triage that knows a real emergency
A no-heat call on a Columbus winter night is treated as the emergency it is. RentShepherd's triage sorts every Columbus repair request the moment it arrives — urgent issues reach you with full context in minutes, routine ones queue quietly for morning.
A renter portal tenants actually use
Instead of a vague voicemail, you get a structured work order: photos, video, unit, and description, submitted through the renter portal and tracked to resolution. Your Columbus tenants see progress; you see everything.
Rent that collects itself
Autopay through the renter portal sends rent straight to your account on the first — no chasing, no awkward texts. Prefer your current setup? RentShepherd still tracks and flags every Columbus payment either way.
Renewals prepped months ahead
Every lease in your Columbus portfolio sits on a renewal timeline. RentShepherd drafts the outreach at 90, 60, and 30 days out; you approve, edit, or hold each message with one tap.
Pricing that beats the traditional 8–10% cut
Pick the plan that fits your Columbus portfolio today and change it as you grow. All plans start with a 14-day free trial, no card required.
- Starter — up to 3 units$29/mo
- Growth — up to 12 units Most popular$79/mo
- Portfolio — up to 30 units$149/mo
- Enterprise — unlimited units for property management companies and large portfoliosCustom
A traditional manager taking 8–10% of collected rent often costs more per month than RentShepherd costs per year on Starter — and you give up the final word.
Get the 2am shift covered in Columbus
Start the 14-day free trial: connect your Columbus units, share one number with tenants, and let RentShepherd take the front line — you keep one-tap control.