Umutungo

Landlords, property managers, agents, and agencies running rental portfolios in Rwanda and East Africa, priced and reported in RWF.

Umutungo is two products under one account. Owners run the portfolio in a private ops workspace — units, leases, rent, costs, maintenance, and month-end reports. Separately, vacant inventory can be published to listings.umutungo.co so renters and buyers can browse without seeing internal ledgers.

Most portfolios still live in notebooks, WhatsApp threads, and spreadsheets. Rent status is unclear, vacancies sit longer than they should, and closing the month means reconstructing the truth from chats and files.

• Built around RWF rent and reporting for Rwanda and East Africa
• Private ops data must never leak onto the public listings site
• Plans for landlords, agents, and agencies with different access limits

RURANGO contribution: Product design and engineering.

• Product and marketing experience for umutungo.co
• Ops concepts: units, leases, rent status, expenses, maintenance
• Public listings and prospect pipeline
• Plan models for landlords, agents, and agencies

Treat operations and listings as related but separate hosts. The workspace is the system of record. Listings only show what the owner chooses to publish. When a unit is occupied, it can stop appearing publicly; when it is vacant again, it can go back up.

• Keep ops and listings apart

  Seekers browse published rentals, sales, land, and commercial stock. Owners keep ledgers, expense history, and maintenance private. Same account, different trust boundary.

• Plans that match how people work

  Landlord, agent, and agency plans set unit counts, managers, and listing caps up front — so growth limits are visible before month-end surprises.

• Month-end as a real workflow

  Income, costs, and occupancy roll into a period report per property instead of being rebuilt from chats and spreadsheets.

The live product includes a free trial, portfolio dashboard, property and unit setup, expense and maintenance tracking, tenant payment claims and repair reports, and a publish/prospect flow for vacant units on the listings site.

• Rent and lease tracking
• Expenses and monthly property close
• Maintenance workflows
• Vacant-unit listing publish and prospect pipeline
• Landlord, agent, and agency plan models
• Tenant portal for payment claims and maintenance reports

• Live product at umutungo.co with trial and sign-in
• Public listings at listings.umutungo.co for rent, sale, land, and commercial

Limited to what is publicly verifiable — no invented metrics.

• Property owners trust software more when month-end and access rules are as clear as the marketing story.
• A listings site only helps if publish state follows real vacancy — not a brochure that drifts from the portfolio.