A small Portland property management firm

We started Cedar because we kept watching the same things happen. Renters paid $50 application fees for homes they had no chance of qualifying for, because the credit and income rules were buried or hidden. Owners lost months of vacancy because nobody would say what the requirements actually were.

Cedar fixes both halves of that. Every listing we publish shows the credit minimum, income multiple, co-signer policy, and pet rules — before anyone clicks 'apply.' Our renewal rate is 92% because we treat residents like the people who chose this address, not units paying rent.

We stay small on purpose. About 25 homes across five east-side neighborhoods, all within a half-hour drive. We turn down management contracts that would push us past that or pull us outside the geography we know well.