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Practical guides for tenants and landlords, written from what the reviews keep telling us.

Rental scams: 9 red flags to spot before signing a lease

Finding a rental property can be exciting, especially when the location is right, the rent fits your budget, and the photos look exactly like your dream home. T…

October 27, 2026

Rental references: what to ask before you sign a lease

A rental listing can tell you how many bedrooms a property has, whether pets are allowed, and how much rent you will pay. A landlord reference can tell you what…

October 27, 2026

A landlord’s guide to reviewing tenants fairly

A good tenant is more than someone who pays rent on time. They communicate when something goes wrong, respect the terms of the lease, and leave the property in…

October 27, 2026

12 questions to ask a landlord before you sign a lease

A lease viewing is a strange kind of interview. You are being assessed, so you behave like a candidate: polite, agreeable, reluctant to seem difficult. Meanwhil…

August 20, 2026

How reviews stay honest on RentersBook

Every review platform claims its reviews are real. Most of them mean that a real human typed the words. That is a low bar, and rental housing is too consequenti…

August 20, 2026

Screening tenants without the guesswork

Most landlords screen on three things: a credit score, an income multiple, and a gut read of the person in front of them. Two of those are backward-looking fina…

August 20, 2026

Photograph everything: a tenant's guide to move-in evidence

Deposit disputes are almost never arguments about facts. They are arguments about who can prove them. The tenant remembers the scuff was already there; the land…

August 20, 2026

How to respond to a negative review without making it worse

The instinct on reading a two-star review of your property is to correct the record. Resist it for twenty-four hours. The version of the response you write in t…

August 20, 2026

Your rental history is an asset. Start treating it like one.

Pay a mortgage for six years and you have built a credit history that follows you, opens doors, and lowers your costs. Pay rent for six years, often more, in th…

August 20, 2026

Precise search: finding the review that actually applies to you

Search on a review platform fails in a specific way: it returns everything, sorted by nothing you care about, and leaves you to read two hundred entries to find…

August 20, 2026