The honest version
Kettle & Oak has managed property in Chicago since 2016 — over 1,000 properties, 200+ landlords, and a rent collection rate above 98%. That is a real track record and it belongs to this brand.
It is not a Houston track record. Houston is a new market for us. We would rather say that on the About page than have you find out by asking the obvious question in a first meeting.
What comes with us is the operating system: the same platform, the same processes, the same approach to voucher properties that most managers avoid. What does not come with us is a list of Houston landlords who will vouch for us. That gets built one owner at a time, and the first ones get a level of attention that later ones will be jealous of.
Why Section 8
Because it is the part of this market where competence is actually scarce. Anyone can collect rent on a clean market-rate house in Sugar Land. Rather fewer firms will cheerfully handle an HQS inspection, an annual recertification and a housing authority's scheduling queue — and the owners of those properties are correspondingly underserved.
What we do not do
- We do not charge a percentage of your rent.
- We do not lock you into a long-term contract.
- We do not quote figures we have not verified — which is why the housing authority incentive amounts are still marked as pending on this site rather than filled in with something plausible.
- We do not take on properties outside our service area and manage them badly at a distance.