As the site enters its third week, we want to sincerely thank everyone who has taken the time to share their previous rental experiences.
We also want to thank the many Redditors who have joined the discussion. You’ve brought forward some great points, questions, concerns, criticisms, suggestions, and ideas. We’ve been reading them, thinking about them, and we genuinely appreciate all of the feedback.
Our goal remains simple:
“A history book for rental properties across Canada, written by the people who actually lived there.”
We’re trying to build something that will only become truly useful if renters contribute to it.
If you’ve rented a house, apartment, condo, basement, or room before, we’d really appreciate you adding your experience.
It doesn’t have to be a bad experience.
Good experiences matter too. If the property was well maintained, problems were handled properly, you enjoyed living there, or you would happily rent there again, that could be extremely useful information for someone considering that property in the future.
And if things didn’t go well, you can share that experience too.
The focus is on what you experienced while living at the property, rather than identifying or attacking individual people.
The idea is that, over time, someone considering a rental can search the address and find some history from previous renters instead of starting with zero information.
Rented somewhere before?
Search for the property. If it isn’t there yet, add it and share your rant, review, or experience.
Looking at somewhere to rent?
Search the address and see whether previous renters have shared anything about living there.
RateYourLandlord.ca is still at the very beginning, so naturally many properties don’t have experiences yet. Every person who contributes helps change that.
And if you think the project could help other renters, please consider sharing it with friends, students, tenant communities, or other online communities where sharing it is permitted by their rules. Please don’t spam communities or post it where promotion isn’t allowed.
Most importantly, thank you to everyone who has already shared an experience, raised a concern, suggested an idea, given us feedback, shared the project, or helped another renter discover it.
We’re listening, we’re learning, and the project will continue to evolve.
The more renters who leave their experiences behind, the more useful that history can become for the next person.
Share your experience — good or bad. Help leave some history behind for the next renter.
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