For Portfolios Under 10 Units

Property Management Software for Small Portfolios

A duplex and two houses is a real portfolio — it just isn't a management company. Kelpic® is software for a few rental properties: full-featured, flat-priced by unit band, and free of everything built for someone fifty times your size.

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Small Portfolios Fall Into a Software Gap

Most property management software for small companies is actually priced for medium-sized ones. Platforms built for management businesses carry unit minimums, per-unit meters, and onboarding projects that make no sense when your whole portfolio is a triplex and a rental house. Meanwhile the free tools at the other end tend to cover leasing well and thin out on day-to-day operations.

If you own 2 to 10 units, you know the shape of the problem: you have multiple tenants, multiple leases with different renewal dates, repairs at more than one address, and a bookkeeping picture your accountant wants split by property. That's more than a spreadsheet handles gracefully — and much less than what “property management software for small business” usually assumes.

Kelpic was built for exactly this middle: the full toolset — online rent collection, maintenance tracking, tenant portal, per-property finances — without the management-company overhead. It's the same platform behind our broader property management software for small landlords, focused here on the under-10-unit case.

Everything a 2–10 Unit Portfolio Actually Uses

Whether your units are a duplex, a triplex, a fourplex, or scattered single-family homes, the daily work is the same — and it's all here.

Online Rent Collection

Tenants pay through Stripe by card or bank transfer, and every payment is tracked against the right unit and lease automatically. No chasing checks across three addresses.

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Maintenance With a Memory

Requests come in with photos, get assigned and scheduled, and keep their costs and history against the unit. Recurring problems become visible instead of expensive.

Tenant Portal

Every tenant — upstairs unit, downstairs unit, the house across town — gets one place to pay rent, report issues, and see their lease. Fewer texts to you.

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Per-Property Finances

Income and costs stay pinned to the property they belong to, so “how is the duplex doing?” has an answer that isn't an evening with a spreadsheet.

Online Applications

Prospects apply through your property listing page and applications land in your dashboard — ready for whichever unit turns over next.

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Native iPhone App

Check rent status and triage maintenance from wherever you are. Small portfolios get managed between other things — the app is built for that.

Flat Pricing That Starts Where You Are

Kelpic has one plan with every feature. You pay a flat monthly price for the unit band your portfolio falls into — not per unit, and never a minimum designed for a management company. These are the current small-portfolio bands, pulled live:

Units	Your total monthly price
1–4 units	$8.99/mo
5–10 units	$19.99/mo

Live pricing at the time this page was built. The bottom band covers a single rental, a duplex, a triplex, or a fourplex — and moving up a band is the only thing growth changes. See all bands and details.

Why this model suits small portfolios: per-unit pricing punishes every new door, and free tools recover their costs through fees your tenants pay. A flat band means the software costs the same whether your fourth unit is occupied or not, and your tenants aren't the revenue model. For the fuller comparison of how this market prices, see our guide to property management software pricing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What counts as a small portfolio?

In practice, anything under 10 units — a couple of rental houses, a duplex plus a condo, a triplex, or a small mix that adds up to a handful of doors. It's the range where you're too big for a spreadsheet to stay reliable but far too small for management-company platforms with unit minimums and enterprise pricing.

How much does Kelpic cost for a small portfolio?

Kelpic uses flat volume-band pricing: one monthly price for the unit band your portfolio falls into, with every feature included. The bottom band covers 1–4 units at $8.99/month at current pricing, and adding a unit inside your band costs nothing extra. Current bands are always on the pricing page.

Is per-unit pricing bad for small portfolios?

Not inherently — but per-unit pricing often carries a monthly minimum that quietly makes small portfolios expensive, and the bill rises every time you add a door. Flat banded pricing gives you a predictable number and free headroom inside your band, which suits owners who add units occasionally rather than constantly.

Do I get fewer features on the smallest band?

No. Kelpic has one plan — Standard — and every band includes the full product: online rent collection, maintenance tracking with photos and costs, tenant portal, online applications, and the native iOS app. The bands only change price with portfolio size, not what you can do.

Will I outgrow Kelpic if my portfolio grows?

Kelpic is built for 1 to 50 units, so a small portfolio has years of headroom before that's a question. Growth just moves you into the next unit band — same product, same account, no migration.

Run Your Portfolio Like It Matters — Because It Does

A few rental properties deserve better than a spreadsheet and worse memories. Set up your units in an afternoon and see everything in one place tonight.

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