Home intelligence OS

One system.
One alert layer.
One continuous property record.

Most operators already have sensors — cameras, water detectors, thermostats from different vendors, each with its own app. Rookfolio is not another point solution.

It's the intelligence layer that brings everything you already own into one place, and adds what's missing so you know what's happening across your properties before it costs you.

Get in touchlarson@rookfolio.com

The problem with student housing

Tenants don't report problems early. By the time you know, it's already expensive.

Water damage

$50k

average owner exposure (after deductible) from a leak a sensor would have caught in minutes

HVAC neglect

5-20×

a $150 service call becomes $800–3,000 if caught late. Students don't notice until it fails.

Energy waste

$500+

per year on a 5-unit building, recoverable with baseline monitoring and anomaly detection

What Rookfolio does

One unified view across your portfolio, combining the physical monitoring layer with the property management tools you already use.

Infrastructure Sensors

Rookfolio installs

You see financial impact, not just raw metrics.

  • ✓Water leaks — Instant alert + audible on-site alarm. Catches a $400 fix before it becomes a $50,000 claim.
  • ✓Automatic water shutoff — Cuts the supply line on confirmed leak before you're back at the property.
  • ✓Whole-building energy monitoring — Flags the HVAC running 6 hours without temperature change before it becomes a $1,000+ repair.
  • ✓Temperature and humidity — Mold risk, freeze prevention, HVAC efficiency translates to ~$480–720/year in recoverable energy costs on a 5-unit building.

Connected Devices

Integrate any device, any brand

Your Rently locks, your Nest thermostats, and your existing cameras all visible in one place.

  • ✓Smart locks (Rently, Schlage, Yale, and others)
  • ✓Smart thermostats
  • ✓Exterior cameras
  • ✓Any Z-Wave, Matter, or Zigbee device

Coming soon

  • ◦Solar metering — Meter per-unit electricity consumption when solar panels are installed. Bill tenants based on actual usage and turn your energy investment into a direct revenue source.
  • ◦PMS integrations — AppFolio, Rently, Yardi, and others surfaced directly in Rookfolio. One view across sensors, locks, and your existing property management stack.

Delivers

  • ✓Text and email alerts routed directly to you
  • ✓Live portfolio view across all properties
  • ✓Monthly PDF summary — insurance-ready format
  • ✓Full data ownership — your hardware, your data, forever

Local-first architecture

Rookfolio runs on hardware installed at the property. If the internet goes down, monitoring continues. If a vendor goes out of business, your system keeps running.

Remote access via encrypted VPN — view your properties from anywhere, securely, without exposing anything to the public internet.

Compliant by design with NY Assembly Bill A156 (2025), which requires a physical backup for any smart entry system.

Looking for pilot operators

Rookfolio is looking for real estate operators willing to run a free pilot in one of their buildings. We handle everything — hardware, installation, software configuration. You give us 3–4 hours of property access. 90 days later, we review the data together.

$0

Pilot cost

12–14 days

Time to live monitoring

3–4 hours

Install time

At day 90, we review energy usage change, maintenance response time, and what the system caught. Then you decide.

Apply to pilot

After the pilot

$5-10 / unit / month

Volume pricing at 3+ buildings.

5-unit building, typical year

Rookfolio subscription$25–50 / month
Operational savings (energy + incidents)$1,000–1,500 / year
Payback periodless than 1 month