Kevin Ortner

CEO at Renters Warehouse

Speaker

President and CEO of Renters Warehouse, Kevin Ortner first joined the company in 2009 when he opened the first Renters Warehouse franchise in Phoenix, AZ. His franchise has been consistently awarded with best-in-class business and culture awards, and reached a record 2000 properties under management for a single franchise in 2016.

In 2015, Kevin went on to take the reins of the entire company, helping see it through monumental growth nationwide and a majority share private equity investment. Kevin is a two-time honoree of the American Stevie Business Awards, Executive of the Year award (2015 and 2016) and received an International Stevie Business Award for his achievements as CEO. His leadership helped the company become a seven-time honoree of the prestigious Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest growing privately held companies in America.

Renters Warehouse now manages more than $4 billion in residential real estate, servicing over 12,000+ investors across 15,000+ residential homes over 40 markets and more than 20 states. In 2015, Renters Warehouse officially trademarked the term Rent Estate™ to redefine the entire Single Family Rental (SFR) industry as real estate gives way to this increasingly lucrative asset. Winning dozens of awards and securing many honors, Renters Warehouse is recognized as being both one of the fastest growing companies, as well as one renowned for being an exceptional employer.

Kevin is a previous Advisory Council Board Member for the Single-Family Rental Association (SFRA), an organization under the Five Star Institute that is committed to responding to business opportunity and industry betterment in the real estate landscape across the U.S.

In 2017, Kevin published his first book - Rent Estate™ Revolution. Throughout the book Kevin shares the Renters Warehouse philosophy and business expertise around single-family rentals and the power of Rent Estate to drive long-term wealth creation, retirement security and financial freedom for the everyday person.