OwnerRez
👤 Paul Waldschmidt & Chris Hynes (Career software engineers who also ran their own rentals — Paul built it to manage his cabin, so they knew the pain firsthand.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
A cabin owner who couldn't manage his own rental built the flat-fee platform 50,000+ properties now run on.
Will it work? · our read
Depth wins. Two engineer-operators bootstrapped for a decade, obsessing over depth and reliability. No VC, no hype — just 50,000+ properties and $1B+ in bookings running through it.
01How the money moves
Independent host connects Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com in one dashboard
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Runs bookings, payments, and a direct-booking site through OwnerRez
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Host pays a flat $40+/mo per property — no cut of bookings
02The numbers
50,000+
active properties
our story
$1B+/yr
guest bookings (GMV)
our story
$0
outside funding
unfunded
The $1B+ is guest booking volume across all users (GMV), not OwnerRez revenue — company revenue is undisclosed. ownerrez.com/story
Company revenue undisclosed — est. about $7M/yr (third-party). $1B+/yr in guest bookings runs through it.
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OwnerRez — Our Story (first-party: founders, timeline, $1B bookings, 50k properties)OwnerRez Pricing — flat fee, no booking fees, no contractsRocketReach — est. $7M revenue, about 40 staff (third-party estimate)Crunchbase — OwnerRez, unfundedHotel Tech Report — OwnerRez reviews (power-user reputation)
Revenue is NOT disclosed first-party; third-party estimates diverge wildly ($5.4M Owler, $7M RocketReach, $10-50M SignalHire, $100M+ LeadIQ), so tagged Estimate and not independently confirmed. The hard first-party numbers are scale, not dollars: 50,000+ active properties (Aug 2023) and $1B+/yr in guest bookings — that is platform GMV, NOT OwnerRez revenue. Founding story, timeline, unfunded/bootstrap status and profit-sharing are first-party from ownerrez.com/story; pricing is from the official site. No invented drama — the win is a decade of two-person patience and depth, not one genius pivot; the 'direct-APIs, flat fee vs %-cut' move is documented on their site. [our read] The OTA-dependency 'dies' scenario plus the Control/Scale weaknesses are my read, not a company-stated risk. We never score you.