The brokers, lenders, insurers, and property managers operate independently. That fragmentation drives up costs and slows everything down. Investors either pay the inefficiency tax or spend months coordinating it themselves.
About Lineage
Built by experience
Lineage is the result of a combined 100+ years of real estate, technology, and investing experience, brought together in one platform for the independent investor.
Our story
Rental property investing has always been fractured.
Co-founder
Ron Phillips
Ron spent 20 years being that connection for thousands of investors. As CEO of RP Capital, he coordinated the brokers, lenders, and insurers they couldn’t find on their own. It worked, but it didn’t scale. One person can only be in so many deals.
Co-founder
Andy Propst
As the former CEO of HomeRiver Group, Andy saw investors spending their time on tenant calls, chasing contractors, and handling lease disputes. Low-ROI work that didn’t improve returns and kept them from buying their next property.
Co-founder
Thad Tarkington
Thad, CEO of Second Nature, connected the two. Combine acquisition, lending, insurance, and property management into one transaction: less work, faster closing, better economics. Now you could bring what Ron built to every investor.
In 2024, the three of them launched Lineage
Most real estate transactions have competing interests.
Buyer vs. seller, buyer vs. listing agent. Lineage works differently. Our investors are focused on long-term cash flow, not flipping. Our sellers want repeat business, not one-time windfalls. When everyone benefits from a performing property, the deal doesn’t need a winner. It needs to work.
That’s why our sellers build in concessions upfront, our property managers have property in the same places they manage for you, and 71% of our investors come back for another property. Read more on the Lineage approach →
Welcome to Lineage. Every investor we help becomes part of ours.
Mission
To open real estate investing to everyone.
Vision
Buying investment real estate is as simple as buying a stock.
A Lineage investor manages a real estate portfolio the way they manage a stock portfolio. They buy, finance, insure, track, and reinvest in one place. What used to require a team of professionals, each taking their cut, is seamless. We own the infrastructure that connects it.
We’ll know we’ve won when our investors have built portfolios they never thought they could, and they brought the people they love along with them. Each one a branch in a family tree of investors whose financial future was changed by what we built. Lineage’s lineage.
$1.5B+
Career transactions
6,000+
Investors served
22 Days
Average time to close
71%
Repeat investor rate
The team
Our leadership
Brendan Seiber
Director of Sales
Brittany Carcova
Director of Marketing
Jennifer Ellis
Director of Financial Services
Jesse Hertzberg
President
Josh Tarkington
Director of Engineering
Katherine Meeks
Director of Product Design
Liz Howard
Director of Product
Oliver Block
Head of Insurance
Ron Phillips
Founder & CEO
Tyler Nichols
Director of PM Partners
Governance
Our board
Ron Phillips
Founder & CEO, Lineage
Thad Tarkington
CEO, Second Nature
Joe Polverari
CEO, PURE HomeRiver
Andy Propst
Former CEO, HomeRiver Group
Jesse Hertzberg
President, Lineage
What we believe
Our values
01
Good work is the point.
Not long hours. Not performative hustle. We want the end of the day to feel fulfilling, like you did something real alongside people who pushed you. Hard problems, smart people, real stakes. The people you work with are a direct result of the bar we set.
02
The investor is the scoreboard.
Our customers trust us with their money and their future. Everything we do gets measured against what it does for them. We’re honest about risk, accurate about outcomes, and careful with capital that isn’t ours.
03
The best seat in the room is between two people smarter than you.
We want everyone to leave every conversation having learned something. The goal is to be surrounded by people who make you better and to be that person for someone else.
04
Every person counts.
Everyone here has to be someone you’d want beside you when it matters. Your work isn’t done at the handoff. When your work is strong, the person next to you moves faster.
05
Nobody cares whose fault it was.
When something goes wrong, we work the problem. Not the optics, not the blame. We name the error, own it, and fix it.
06
Candor is a form of respect.
Our colleagues can handle honest feedback. But truth without care is cruel. You challenge someone because you’re invested in their success. Staying quiet to spare someone the hard truth isn’t kindness. It’s the easy way out. If you see a problem, surface it.
07
Credit is for giving away.
We don’t hoard it. We don’t track it. The person who wins on credit politics may win a battle but they make the team worse. Focus on being useful. The rest follows.
08
Leadership is held accountable.
Everything in this document applies to leadership first. If we ask for candor, we have to take it. If we ask for honesty about failure, we have to model it. The culture is defined by what leadership does and what leadership tolerates.
Careers
Interested in joining our team?
We always want to hear from exceptional people who find our values strike a chord. If this sounds like the kind of place you’d want to join, visit our careers page.
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