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Read the tenant experience
See reviews attached to the building or unit, including ratings and the details past tenants chose to share — so you can look beyond staging photos and ask better questions at a viewing.
About Renterly
Know the rental
before you rent it.
Renterly turns scattered rental information into a record you can find by address. It is built to give renters useful context while you are deciding where to live, not after something has gone wrong.
A rental record, in one place
- Tenant reviews and landlord replies
- Reported rents and changes over time
- Rent-control status and government rules
- Landlord and corporate ownership links
- Municipal building-standards records, where a city publishes them
- Published tribunal decisions matched to properties
Our mission
They have a record of you. You should have one of them.
Renting in Canada is not a level playing field. Before you are handed a lease, a landlord can check your credit, call your references and look you up in published tribunal orders — there is an industry built on cataloguing tenant behaviour and selling it back to landlords. Almost nothing was built pointing the other way.
Renterly is the other way. We are cataloguing landlord behaviour at the address it happened: what tenants paid, what living there was like, who actually owns the building, and what a tribunal has already found. It draws on published provincial tribunal decisions and municipal housing data alongside what tenants tell us.
That record is meant to change what each side can take for granted. A tenant who can read it before signing is negotiating with facts rather than a listing. A landlord who follows provincial tenancy law and keeps a building in decent shape has somewhere that shows it — and one who does not is now visible to tenants making informed housing decisions.
For renters
Replace guesswork with the record for an address
Listings are designed to sell you on a place. Renterly is designed to help you research it — whether you’re comparing options, preparing to negotiate, or deciding if a unit is worth applying for.
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See reported rent over time
Tenant-reported rent entries build a timeline rather than a single asking price: how rent has moved between tenancies, and real context for a budget or a negotiation.
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Understand rent control
Records show a unit’s reported rent-control status alongside the relevant provincial rule and the government source it comes from — a question worth confirming before you rely on an advertised rent.
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Follow the landlord, not just the listing
A building has one or more landlords, individual or corporate, and Renterly keeps a record of each landlord change as it is reported on the site, so a sale or a changed property name does not erase who the landlord was before.
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Find public tribunal records at the address
Published tenancy tribunal decisions are matched to the related property and landlord, putting records that are otherwise hard to locate within reach of ordinary research.
How the record grows
Made useful by the people who have lived there.
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Search
Start with any Canadian rental address — apartment, house, condo, or suite.
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Review the record
See the information already connected to the building and its units.
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Leave it better
Add a review, rent figure, or status update to help the renter who comes next.
Contributions are confirmed by email and published without the contributor’s name. Tenant-submitted reviews and rent figures are not independently verified; use them as context, and read any public landlord response alongside the review.
For landlords
A public record should include a way to respond.
Renterly does not sell review removal or hide tenant feedback. Instead, landlords can claim their properties, participate publicly, and understand the feedback their renters are seeing.
Landlord tools
Claim a building or unit
Connect your account to the properties you manage.
Reply publicly to reviews
Share your side of the story where renters can read it.
Track your portfolio’s feedback
See ratings over time, reported rent context, and review activity across claimed properties.
A fairer rental search
The next tenant should not have to start from zero.
Search the address you’re considering, or add what you know to the record for an address you have lived at.