# Sunroom Leasing

> Austin-based Sunroom Leasing combined rental software with a leasing-only brokerage, handling property marketing, tours, applications, screening and lease preparation for property managers and rental owners. Co-founders Ben Doherty and Zac Maurais later focused on Utility Profit, a utility setup and confirmation product developed from the move-in workflow; Sunroom’s main website now redirects there.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Austin, United States
- **Founders:** Ben Doherty (Co-founder and CEO (Sunroom)), Zac Maurais (Co-founder and President (Sunroom))
- **Products:** Full-service leasing, Sunroom Rentals, Sunroom Leasing: For Realtors, Partner portal, AI-assisted renter communications
- **Notable:** Raised an $11 million Series A in February 2021., Expanded beyond Austin; historical marketing described operations in more than 10 states., Maurais retrospectively reported a roughly 8,000-home leasing footprint in March 2025.

## Products & services

- **Full-service leasing** — Historical leasing-only brokerage offering property photos, yard signs, listing distribution, lead responses, tours, application processing, deposits and lease preparation.
- **Sunroom Rentals** — Renter-facing platform for finding properties, arranging tours and applying; launched publicly in 2018.
- **Sunroom Leasing: For Realtors** — Agent-facing mobile app and branded leasing support, with a public release record dated October 26, 2021.
- **Partner portal** — Leasing activity, market comparisons and owner-facing visibility; historical materials also describe pricing, pre-leasing, concessions and renewal support.
- **AI-assisted renter communications** — Sunroom advertised ChatGPT tools; Aissist reports a partnership beginning in early 2024 for inbound renter inquiries, qualification and visit scheduling.
- **Utility Profit** — Related founders’ utility setup business: address-specific options, reminders, setup confirmations and property-manager referral revenue. The founders described launching it in 2024.

## Achievements

- Raised an $11 million Series A in February 2021.
- Expanded beyond Austin; historical marketing described operations in more than 10 states.
- Maurais retrospectively reported a roughly 8,000-home leasing footprint in March 2025.
- Developed a utility setup product from the rental move-in workflow.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Maurais described scale challenges in Sunroom’s leasing business and the founders’ decision to focus on the more specific utility setup problem.
- **2025-06** — EnergyChoiceMatters reported B&Z Homes, Inc., doing business as Utility Wallet and Utility Profit, filed a Texas retail electric broker registration.
- **2025-06** — Aissist published an updated Sunroom automation case study; figures vary within the page.
- **2026-10** — Research check: sunroomleasing.com redirects to Utility Profit. Its current homepage advertises over 1,000 property-manager customers; this is a Utility Profit claim, not a Sunroom leasing count.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sunroomleasing.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunroom-leasing/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sunroomrentals
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SunroomRentals/

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Last updated: 2026-10-05