Landis is a homeownership services company focused on helping renters become homeowners through a structured rent-to-own pathway. Its model combines prequalification, home budget approval, home purchase support, rental occupancy, and mortgage-readiness coaching so clients can move into a home first and buy it back when financially ready. Landis positions itself as a bridge between renting and traditional mortgage qualification rather than as a mortgage lender.
The company serves homebuyers directly and also works with referral and distribution partners across the housing ecosystem. In addition to supporting individual clients, Landis offers programs for real estate agents, lenders, and homebuilders that need a path forward for customers who are not yet ready for conventional financing. Landis currently operates in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Landis combines underwriting, home budgeting, property acquisition, rental management, and coaching into a single workflow designed to move clients toward mortgage readiness. The company prequalifies applicants, verifies financial documents, establishes an approved home budget, and purchases qualifying homes with cash so clients can move in while working toward a future mortgage.
Its service model is supported by dedicated coaches, client advisors, and digital tools that track goals, action items, and financial progress. Landis also supports partner-driven referrals through portals and coordinated workflows for agents, lenders, and homebuilders, giving those partners a way to keep prospective buyers engaged instead of losing them when they cannot yet qualify for a traditional mortgage.
Products and Services
- Path to Homeownership: Landis’s flagship homeownership program for renters who want to buy a home but need time to become mortgage ready. It covers application, prequalification, approved home budget, home selection, Landis home purchase, rental occupancy, coaching, and eventual buyback of the home.
- One-on-one Homeownership Coaching: A dedicated coaching service that helps clients build a tailored mortgage-readiness plan and stay on track through regular check-ins. Coaching focuses on credit score improvement, debt-to-income ratio, and down payment savings.
- Payment Estimator: An online calculator that helps prospective clients estimate what a future Landis-supported home could cost each month based on location and home price inputs.
- Gold Partner Program: A partner tier for real estate agents who have referred at least two conditionally approved clients. Benefits include a dedicated client advisor, pipeline review calls, custom landing pages, and referral incentives for introducing additional agents.
- Ally: Landis’s agent portal, used by real estate partners to invite clients to apply, start the referral process, and move approved buyers into the Landis workflow.
- Coaching solutions: A coaching-led offering for organizations that want to help their clients reach mortgage readiness through personalized goals, structured action plans, and ongoing coach support.
- Join Landis as a Lender: A lender referral program for borrowers who want a mortgage but cannot close yet. Landis pre-qualifies the borrower, buys the home in cash, rents it to the client, and then routes the client back to the referring lender when they are ready for a mortgage.
- Join Landis as a Homebuilder: A homebuilder-focused referral service that helps convert interested buyers who cannot yet secure financing. Landis can purchase the home, rent it to the customer, and create a path to later ownership.
Target Customers
Landis targets renters and aspiring homebuyers who want to purchase a home but are not yet ready to qualify for a traditional mortgage. Its ideal clients are people who need time and structure to improve credit, manage debt-to-income ratios, build down payment savings, and transition into ownership without moving twice.
Landis also targets channel and referral partners in residential real estate. These include real estate agents with buyers who cannot yet obtain conventional financing, lenders with borrowers who need more time before closing, and homebuilders looking to keep prospective buyers in the funnel rather than losing them when financing falls through.
Key People
- Cyril Berdugo: Co-Founder & CEO
- Tom Petit: Co-Founder
- Jonathan Osment: Head of Engineering
Key Facts
- Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
- Employees: Approximately 53
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Private
