The Challenge
Treadval entered the rehab and fixer-upper real estate space with over 250 live property listings spanning residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural categories — but the platform supporting them had outgrown what it could handle. Listings were managed manually with no structured way for buyers to submit a formal offer, no verified channel to find licensed agents, contractors, appraisers, or inspectors, and no mechanism for investors to fund rehab projects directly through the site.
Serving a market that spans the continental US, Puerto Rico, and international listings meant the platform needed serious currency and language depth from day one, not as an afterthought. At the same time, every transaction on the platform — from a property offer to a paid professional Q&A — needed to route payment correctly between buyers, sellers, data providers, and the platform itself, with full auditability behind the scenes.
The Solution
We rebuilt Treadval as a custom platform engineered specifically around how rehab real estate transactions actually work. A structured, multi-step offer submission system replaced ad-hoc inquiries, complete with counter-offer negotiation handled natively in-platform. A verified professional directory now connects buyers and owners with licensed agents, brokers, contractors, appraisers, inspectors, and title examiners — each vetted through a dedicated admin verification workflow before they appear publicly.
Live MLS data flows in through a RESO Web API IDX integration, displayed alongside manually listed properties without disrupting either data source. For deal financing, we built a crowdfund investment module from scratch — Stripe-backed escrow holds investor funds until a project reaches its funding goal, releases capital against contractor milestones, and automates payout distribution once a rehab is complete.
Every monetized feature on the platform — property data purchases, professional consultations, marketplace transactions — runs through a unified Stripe Connect payment layer capable of splitting revenue across multiple parties per transaction. The platform supports 9 languages and nearly every world currency, giving Treadval the same international reach its original listings already demanded.
Development & Implementation
- Audited and mapped the existing data
- Designed a schema built for multi-party transactions
- Built authentication around 13 distinct user roles
- Integrated live MLS data via RESO Web API
- Built a verified professional directory with an admin approval layer
- Built a dedicated admin operations panel
