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. 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.
Ron
Co-founder
Ron spent 20 years being that connection for thousands of investors. 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.
Andy
Co-founder
Andy saw investors spending their weekends 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.
Thad
Co-founder
Thad 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.
Welcome to Lineage. Every investor we help becomes part of ours.
To open real estate investing to everyone.
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, all in one place. Financial products that were only available to institutional real estate investors are available to everyone.
What used to require a team of professionals, each taking their slice, just works. We built every step of the process. Lending, insurance, servicing, data, and the connections between them.
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.
Our leadership
Brendan Seiber
Brittany Carcova
Jennifer Ellis
Jesse Hertzberg
Josh Tarkington
Katherine Meeks
Liz Howard
Oliver Block
Ron Phillips
Our values
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. Fun and rigorous aren't opposites. The best days are both.
We want everyone to leave every conversation having learned something. If you're the smartest person in every room, we've failed. The goal is to be surrounded by people who make you better and to be that person for someone else.
We're a small team. Everyone here has to be someone you'd want beside you when it matters.
When something goes wrong, we work the problem. Not the blame, not the optics. We name the error clearly, without ego protection, and we fix it.
Softening hard news to protect feelings is unkind. We assume our colleagues can handle reality. But brutal truth without care is unkind in a different way. The goal is never to wound; it's to help. You challenge someone because you're invested in their success. And if you see a problem and don't surface it, you're protecting yourself at the company's expense. That's not okay.
We don't hoard it. We don't track it. The person who wins on credit politics may win the battle but they make the team worse and they don't last. Focus on being useful. The rest follows.
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.
Fun isn't a program. It's a byproduct. Hard problems, smart people, real stakes. The stimulus is the fun. The people you work with are a direct result of the bar we set.
Join our team
We're building the platform that opens real estate investing to everyone. That takes a specific kind of person.
Who we hire
We hire exceptional people. The ones we find share three things: optimism, agency, and rigor. All three. Any two without the third creates problems: a whirlwind without judgment, a buzzkill without action, a dreamer without follow-through.
We hire people who are self-aware. Who know what they're good at and what they're not. Who can talk about their failures without self-protection. Self-awareness is the single best predictor of future success. It predetermines capacity for growth.
We hire people who synthesize. Who take new information and figure out what it means, anticipate the next question, make the connection no one else made.
We hire people who will speak uncomfortable truths to anyone in the organization.
We do not lower the bar because we're in a hurry. A mediocre hire costs more than a slow hire every time.
We hire people who are always learning. Not as a value they espouse, but as a way they actually live.
What we won't tolerate
Mean. Selfish. Defensive. Territory-grabbing. These are obvious.
Less obvious: the person who never surfaces the hard thing, who always has a polished answer and no real problems, who is optimizing for how they look instead of what's true. They're protecting their jobs at the company's expense. That's a form of betrayal.
We don't tolerate coasting. The standard here is always: what's the better version of this?
What we're building toward
We want people to leave Lineage, whenever that day comes, better than they arrived. Better thinkers. Better colleagues. People who take something real with them.
This is a place where good work is expected, recognized, and surrounded by more of itself. When you leave at the end of the day, to be with your family, see your friends, do whatever you do, you feel fulfilled.
There are no open positions at this time.
