By: Stephanie Fasano
Quinnipiac senior’s Dominick Tullo and Nick Hakim have created a new website called UnBreak to help improve the relationship between landlords and tenants. The aspiring entrepreneurs started developing this business idea by entering, “Dream it Code it Win it”, in New York City last year. They won $5,000 to start the development of their user-friendly property managing website.
“It’s a really stream lined process to get things done rather then calling your landlord, telling them what’s wrong, and then having to rely on him to go back and call a contractor,” said Nick Hakim, Co-founder of UnBreak.co
Hakim’s business partner and other Co-founder, Dominick Tullo, said they just want to make it easy on everyone. “We’re kind of looking at the person who wants a very simple way just to manage their properties,” Tullo said.
The new website will assist off campus resident’s in fixing their property problems.
“A tenant will log in, for example last year with the mold on my wall. I could just select wall and then write what the issue is,” Hakim said.
“Hit submit and then your property manager will get an email and then contact you back saying ok so and so is coming in three days and this is what time. So on the tenant end it’s very, very simple,” Tullo said.
They also wanted to make the site more efficient for landlords. “The landlord would get a formatted email saying, ‘Nick Hakim,’ at this apartment on this street, has mold growing on his wall and then he could quickly reply back through that email saying his estimated time of service,” Hakim said.
The two website inventors want this new endeavor to benefit the Quinnipiac community. Also, their plan is to start in the local Hamden and New Haven area before reaching bigger cities in the region.
“Ultimately when you’re paying six, seven, eight hundred dollars to live in a room in a house you want it to be perfect,” Hakim said.
