Sometimes the best surprise is the one you don’t see coming, like Nate’s landlord giving him a Piñata account.
Two years later, his “mystery” rent reporting got him a 740 score and a dream house on the lake.
From zero credit to lakefront living. That’s the Piñata effect.🏡💳✨
This week, Entrepreneur Asia Pacific featured Piñata’s co-founder and CEO, Lily Liu, in a new piece about the future of renting. With a background in public service, govtech, and financial equity, Lily’s story isn’t your typical startup origin tale. It’s not about hustle culture for the sake of hustle culture; it’s about fixing broken systems and helping people navigate the ones that still exist. Now she’s working to reimagine the rent system and redefine the renter experience in America.
These days, nearly half of all renters are under 40, but the average renter is about 42 years old. Translation: renting isn’t just a pit stop on the road to adulthood anymore. For millions of Americans, it is adulthood. From the wide-eyed to the fully seasoned, today’s renters are juggling full-time jobs, credit cards, and probably have at least one war story about a roommate named Chad who never did his dishes. (Seriously, Chad? What. The. Heck.) If this sounds eerily familiar, read on.
Team Piñata has officially partnered with MRI RentPayment to elevate the renter experience. Feeling fancy? Because we are. The new collab brings Piñata’s credit-building tools and rewards system straight into the MRI RentPayment platform, making rent payments more seamless, easier to manage, and significantly less soul-sucking (and dare we say… more fun?)
