Stessa Alternative for Landlords Who Also Manage
Stessa is an investor's tool first. It watches your accounts, categorizes transactions, tracks appreciation and produces the reports your accountant wants — and its free tier does a lot of that. If your question is "how is this portfolio performing?", it answers it well.
LetsGoLandlord answers a different question: "what needs doing this month?" Rent charged and matched, a partial payment allocated correctly, a late fee on its own ledger line, a deposit tracked against what the state says you can hold, a renewal drafted before the window closes, a maintenance request that didn't arrive as a text message you'll never find again.
The overlap is real — both keep a ledger, both import bank transactions — but the center of gravity is different. Stessa optimizes for the year-end view. We optimise for the operating month, and the year-end reports fall out of it.
LetsGoLandlord
from $15/mo
5 units on Solo · 20 on Growth ($39/mo) · 14-day free trial
Stessa
from Free, or $12/mo
Essentials is free; Manage $12/mo and Pro $28/mo when paid annually ($15/$35 monthly)
Competitor prices as of August 2026, per their published pricing — always check their current page.
Feature by feature, honestly
| Feature | LetsGoLandlord | Stessa |
|---|---|---|
| AI reads your lease PDFs and builds your rent roll | Yes — upload leases, review what the AI found, done | No — manual data entry or CSV templates |
| Bank-deposit matching (CSV import + live bank feeds) | Yes — deposits match tenants automatically, partial payments included | Varies — typically manual reconciliation |
| Renewal autopilot (draft, generate, send at 90 days) | Yes — with an AI wizard that takes plain-English changes | Reminders at best — check their current docs |
| Maintenance requests without tenant logins | Yes — magic link per unit, photos included, AI triage | Usually requires tenant accounts |
| Online rent collection (tenant ACH) | Yes — ACH + card with tenant autopay, free for landlords; tenants pay processing at cost (ACH 0.8% capped at $4.95). Free P2P lane (Zelle/Venmo) with auto reconciliation too | Yes (typically with per-transaction fees) |
| Monthly owner report written for you | Yes — your numbers, narrated by AI | Report exports — you write the narrative |
| Free read-only accountant login | Yes — free on every plan, lands on a dedicated Taxes page | Varies — often per-seat pricing; check their current docs |
| Per-lease operating detail (charges, partials, late fees, deposits) | Yes — a running balance per lease that survives partial payments | Transaction-level bookkeeping; less per-lease operating state |
| Investor reporting (appreciation, portfolio performance) | Owner statements and monthly AI narratives from your real numbers | Strong — this is what the product is built around |
Who should stay with Stessa
- •You're an investor more than an operator — someone else manages the doors and you want the numbers.
- •Your priority is tax-time categorization and portfolio performance, not month-to-month rent operations.
- •The free tier already answers your questions. It covers a lot.
Switching is an afternoon, not a project
Keep Stessa if you like it — plenty of landlords run an investor view alongside an operating one. If you'd rather consolidate, import your rent roll as CSV or upload the lease PDFs and let the AI rebuild the operating side from source documents.
Frequently asked questions
Is LetsGoLandlord a replacement for Stessa?
Partly. We keep the ledger, produce owner statements and write a monthly narrative from your numbers, so for many landlords it's enough. What we don't try to be is a portfolio-performance and appreciation tracker — if that's why you use Stessa, keep it.
What does Stessa cost?
Essentials is free; Manage is $12/month and Pro $28/month when paid annually ($15 and $35 monthly, as of August 2026). Our Solo plan is $15/month for 5 units, with a permanent free tier for a single rental.
Do you connect to my bank?
Yes — live bank feeds where available, plus CSV import. The difference is what happens next: deposits are matched to tenants and leases, partial payments included, with anything ambiguous held in a review queue rather than guessed at.
Which should I use for taxes?
Either can get you there. Ours produces the operating record — every charge, payment, allocation and expense with an audit trail — and exports it. If your accountant already works from Stessa's reports, there's no urgency to change that.
See your rent roll build itself
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