Build-to-rent · Horizontal
Cottage
Single-story detached and duplex rental homes with private yards and covered porches, arranged around shared greens. Purpose-built single-family rentals, managed like multifamily.
Rental communities · Development · Investment
We build and invest in rental communities people are proud to call home.
TruLife Communities is a Fort Worth, Texas developer and investor that builds and invests in rental communities — rooted in Texas and growing across the Sun Belt. We develop what a market needs, acquire what it already has, build through our affiliate TruLife Build, and invest our own capital alongside our partners.
How we work
Find it. Improve it. Build it. Own it.
We find and develop rental communities, and we bring the right capital to each one. Sometimes that means investing in a community that already performs. Sometimes it means acquiring one below the cost to build it today and making it better. And sometimes it means the whole job — land, design, and construction through our own builder, TruLife Build.
What stays the same is the structure. TruLife sources and underwrites the deal, invests beside our partners, and stays accountable for the result: returns that hold up for investors, and neighborhoods that hold up for the people who live in them.
Our approach →Invest
Existing communities that already perform.
Improve
Acquired below replacement cost, then upgraded.
Develop
Land to build. Build to own.
Our most recent project
LEO at Bethel Place
A 200-home single-story cottage community on 29.7 gated acres west of Fort Worth. TruLife Communities developed it in joint venture with Advenir Oakley Capital, TruLife Build was the general contractor, Gaylen Howard Laing Architects designed it, and Advenir Living manages it. It is the proof of the model: one team made the decisions and lives with the results.
| Homes | 200 |
|---|---|
| Site | 29.7 acres, gated |
| Unit mix | 1, 2, and 3 bedroom · 781 / 1,130 / 1,500 sf average |
| Groundbreaking | Early 2023 |
| Delivered | 2024 |
| Capital partner | Advenir Oakley Capital |
| General contractor | TruLife Build |
| Architect | Gaylen Howard Laing Architects |
| Property manager | Advenir Living |
What we build
Four formats. One standard.
Every format is built by TruLife Build to the same standard of craft and durability — and managed like multifamily, whatever its shape.
Three-story · Walk-up
Garden
Two- and three-story walk-up buildings set around landscaped courtyards — efficient, neighborly, and at home in suburban Texas.
Four-story · Structured parking
Wrap
Higher-density residential wrapped around a central parking structure, for infill sites where land is dear.
Podium · Mixed-use ready
Podium
Residential floors over a concrete podium of parking or retail, for walkable corridors where density is the highest and best use.
Resident experience
A community program, not an amenity list.
Every TruLife community is activated by the TruLife Growth Foundation — neighborhood directors who live on site and run the welcomes, the events, and the neighbor-to-neighbor connections that turn a rental community into a neighborhood.
It is also an operating argument. Programming drives retention, retention lowers turnover, and turnover is one of the largest controllable costs in a rental community. The Foundation is a differentiator no competitor can copy. It is why residents stay, and why our communities compound in value over time.
How we live matters.
Visit the TruLife Growth Foundation →
Matt Farris
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
A note from our founder
TruLife Communities was created to make a positive impact in the lives of everyone we encounter — by building and fostering thriving, inspiring communities. Whether you live in one of our neighborhoods, work alongside us, or invest with us, we want your experience with TruLife to be fulfilling.
We build exceptionally well, but the homes and amenities are only the beginning. Our community coordinators live on site to help neighbors grow, build lasting friendships, and find hope in a time when too many people are fighting their battles alone. We operate with integrity, humility, generosity, and endurance in everything we do, because we believe how we live matters.
— Matt Farris, Founder & CEO
Meet the team →TruLife Communities is a Fort Worth, Texas developer and investor that builds and invests in rental communities, rooted in Texas and growing across the Sun Belt. It is the rental-community division of TruLife Group.
LEO at Bethel Place, a 200-home single-story cottage rental community on 29.7 acres in Weatherford, Texas — developed in joint venture with Advenir Oakley Capital, built by TruLife Build, designed by Gaylen Howard Laing Architects, and delivered in 2024.
TruLife co-sponsors deals with family offices, private investors, and joint venture partners. On its own developments it is developer, general contractor, and co-investor on the same asset. On acquisitions it takes a general-partner position beside operating partners it has worked with before. See the Partner page.
Yes. TruLife is actively underwriting sites across North Texas for cottage, garden, wrap, and podium rental communities. Send a site through the Partner page.
LEO at Bethel Place is managed by Advenir Living. Leasing is at leoatbethelplace.com.
In the news
Capital partners
Invest alongside us.
We put our own capital into every deal we sponsor. If you are a family office, a private investor, or a joint venture partner looking at rental housing in Texas and the Sun Belt, tell us what you look for in a deal and we will tell you plainly whether we are a fit.
Land & brokers
Bring us a site.
We are actively underwriting sites across North Texas for cottage, garden, wrap, and podium rental communities. Send us the parcel and you will get a real answer from a principal, not a form letter.
Contact
One route in.
Capital partners, landowners, and brokers reach Matt through the same form, tagged at capture so it lands with the right person.
Go to contact →2812 Marquita Dr
Fort Worth, TX 76116
Fort Worth, TX 76116