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Tory Cheney — Denver General Manager

Tory started her Smart City journey back in May of 2020 as one of five original agents chosen to launch the Denver market – our first market outside of Texas! After nearly three years of honing her skills and demonstrating consistent high performance, Tory’s inherent desire to grow people, and pour all that she’s learned back into her team, is what ultimately called her to pursue leadership. She now excitedly leads the Denver team into its newest chapter. On the weekends you can find Tory checking out new small businesses, looking for cheap flights, or hanging out with her cat.

Our Story

Smart City started in 2013 as a small apartment locating service in Dallas, Texas. In the early days, our founder and CEO Cassie Brown just wanted to help her friends find great places to live, but her innate drive to offer an amazing client experience quickly set Smart City apart from the competition. Since then, Smart City has taken big strides to disrupt the real estate industry by choosing what’s right over what’s profitable. We are growing rapidly, with services available in major metro areas across three states. And, as always, our goal is to always put you—our customer—first.

Our Purpose

When Smart City was first founded, our goal was “to become the most trusted, most referred, and most utilized resource among renters in Texas.” We’ve broadened our scope considerably as our business has grown, but those basic ideals still remain. In short, Smart City is here to find you a space where you can be yourself.

Finding You a Space in Denver Where You Can Be Yourself

Not to brag, but we’re kind of the experts when it comes to apartment hunting in Denver. Other apartment locating services might be satisfied with simply providing a list of available units, but for us, “good enough” simply isn’t good enough. That’s why we make it our personal mission to learn about your wants, your needs, your “gotta haves,” and your wildest dreams so we can put you in an apartment that’s absolutely perfect for you.

We’re Smart City – Denver, and we’re here to find you a space where you can be yourself.

Our Accolades

Diverse & Inclusive Employer
  • The Startup Weekly

    2021

Best Places to Work
  • Dallas Business Journal

    2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019

  • Houston Business Journal

    2017

  • Glassdoor

    2018 (#19)

Dallas 100 Entrepreneur Award
  • Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship (SMU)

    2019

Inc. 5000
  • Nationals

    2019 (#670), 2020 (#1086),

    2021 (#2447)

  • Regionals: Texas

    2020 (#87)

Entrepreneur 360
  • #190

    2018

  • #299

    2019

Top CEOs
  • Glassdoor

    2019 (#16)

35 Under 35
  • LGBTQ Leader, Business Category

    2019

Women in Business Award
  • Dallas Business Journal

    2019

Best of Austin
  • Austin Chronicle

    2019, 2021, 2022, 2023

There’s a ton of locators in the Dallas area, but if we ever move again Smart City is the only one I’d consider. They make the process so easy, especially because you can communicate via text with your agent. Best of all the process is so quick.

Amber R.
via Yelp!

From finding the apartments that fit what I was looking for to scheduling the tours, [my agent] made everything stress-free for me. I highly recommend Smart City!

I worked with Smart City again and they did not fail. Amazing service, loving and caring agents…I have a really, really busy lifestyle and Smart City really helped me not to be worried and stressed about finding a nice home with my needs. I love Smart City and I promise that no one will regret using them.

Parisa H.
via Birdeye

Best apartment locators on earth!

All of our moms

The self-described ‘hip, trendy and client-focused locators’ are passionate about helping provide housing accommodations, as well as working with each other.

Dallas Business Journal
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