About WURTHIT™

Trust, Made Verifiable

Renting is one of the biggest financial decisions most people ever make — yet they make it with almost no reliable information. I built WURTHIT™ to change that.

I was the renter this platform was built to protect.

Rico English II  — Founder & CEO, from Build It Like You Mean It
Why I built this

I signed a lease based on what a landlord told me. What I found after move-in was different from what I was shown. Different from what I was promised. There was no system to verify anything. No score. No history. No paper trail. That experience changed everything — and the hardest part was realizing it wasn’t unique to me. It was happening to people every single day.

I spent six years as a public servant — protecting people’s rights, being strong for the weak. The uniform changed. The mission did not. That work taught me one thing this company is built on: documentation is non-negotiable. If it isn’t written down and verified, it didn’t happen.

My fuel did not just come from me. It came from the people around me. Their pain propelled me to push harder even when I wanted to stop.

I watched the same thing happen again and again — renters who got burned, families who moved into misrepresented homes, good landlords who did everything right and had no way to prove it. I looked around, and nobody was coming to fix it. So I just happened to be the person who got tired of waiting for someone else to build it.

What WURTHIT™ does

The WURTHIT™ Score

A verified landlord rating that goes beyond star reviews. It reflects not just how a landlord is rated, but how they actually perform — weighing documented, verified complaints so the score earns its meaning. A high WURTHIT™ Score isn’t marketing. It’s a track record.

Verified Tenant Reliability Profile

A fair, documented way for renters to show landlords who they really are — recognizing the responsible tenants who pay on time, communicate, and care for the place they call home.

Where we’re focused

We’re building for Chicago first. Rather than spreading thin, we’re committed to getting it right in one market — listening to real renters and real landlords here, and earning trust block by block before we grow.

What we stand for
Verification over noise
Our ratings are grounded in documented evidence — not anonymous venting.
Fair in both directions
Renters and landlords are held to the same honest standard.
Information, not influence
We give people the facts to make their own informed decisions.

WURTHIT is water in the desert. It is the light at the end of the tunnel. It makes the chessboard even. You are the white piece. You go first.

Rico English II  — Founder, WURTHIT™

New Growth Investments LLC d/b/a WURTHIT™ was founded by Rico English II with one goal: to make renting more transparent, more accountable, and more fair — for everyone with a stake in where they live.

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