Your Kansas City rental, handled.
Long-term rental management for landlords with one to a handful of doors — run by an engineer who fixes things himself, answers his phone, and sends you a statement you can read in a minute.
Built for the landlord with a day job, by one.
Most management companies are built for 500-door portfolios. Handld is built for the person who owns a duplex in Olathe, a rental in Overland Park, or a house they couldn't sell when they moved. Small enough to know your property; organized enough that you'll forget you own it.
Tenant placement
Pricing, listing photos, showings, screening (credit, income, background, rental history), and a Kansas lease drafted by a landlord-tenant attorney — not downloaded from a forum.
Rent & money
Online rent collection, a plain-English monthly statement with every receipt attached, and a year-end packet your CPA will actually thank you for.
Maintenance that's actually fixed
Small repairs — plumbing, electrical, drywall, appliances — get done by us, not marked up 20% and handed to a stranger. Bigger jobs go to vetted local trades at cost.
How it works
Free rental analysis
Tell us the address. You get a realistic rent range, what the place needs to rent fast, and a straight answer on whether we're the right fit.
Onboarding week
We walk the property, photograph every room, set up your owner account, and — if it's occupied — introduce ourselves to your tenant.
Lease it (if vacant)
Listed within days. Self-guided showings on evenings and weekends so good applicants don't slip away while you're at work.
Then it's handled
Rent lands in your account, maintenance gets triaged and fixed, and you get one statement a month. Call us whenever you want; we won't make you.
An engineer, a toolbox, and a very organized spreadsheet.
Handld is run by Peter, a Kansas City mechanical engineer who spent years designing control systems for water utilities — the kind of work where "close enough" isn't allowed. He's also the guy friends call when the water heater goes.
That combination is the whole pitch: the discipline to document everything, and the hands to fix most of it himself. No call center. No junior "portfolio coordinator." The person you talk to is the person who shows up.
What you can hold us to
- Emergency line answered 24/7; non-urgent requests acknowledged within one business day.
- You approve any repair over your spending limit before it happens.
- Monthly statement by the 10th, with photos of any work done.
- No hidden markups on maintenance. Ever.
- Cancel with 30 days' notice. No long lock-ins.
Where we work
The Kansas side of the metro, starting with Johnson County. If you're within about 25 minutes of Overland Park, you're in range.
- Overland Park
- Olathe
- Lenexa
- Shawnee
- Leawood
- Prairie Village
- Mission
- Merriam
- Roeland Park
- Gardner
- Spring Hill
- De Soto
Own here but live somewhere else? Here's how we work with out-of-state owners.
Find out what your place should rent for.
Free, no obligation, and we'll tell you if you're better off self-managing.