Know your landlord before you sign.
Structured reviews of buildings and property managers, from verified UC Berkeley students.
Start with
- Addresses on record
- 27,650
- Property managers mapped
- 26
- Facts in every review
- 6
How it works
Three stepsVerify
One Berkeley .edu address, once. It keeps the record real.
Say what happened
Deposit, repairs, entry notice, and the rest. Facts and amounts, not stars.
On the record
A person reads every entry before it posts. No fake reviews, no scraped listings.
What a record holds
Six facts per leaseDeposit returned
In full, partial, or none, and whether deductions were itemized.
Repairs handled
Fixed promptly, fixed eventually, or neglected.
Communication
Responsive and clear, hit or miss, or hard to reach.
Entry notice
Proper notice before entering: always, sometimes, or no.
Surprise fees
Charges beyond rent and deposit: none, a few, or frequent.
Would rent again
Yes or no, from the tenant who lived there.
Every Berkeley address, on file
Public recordsEvery addressed building in Berkeley is already in the directory. Search any address or landlord and it resolves, even the ones with nothing on file yet. The shelf is built. The entries fill in one lease at a time.
Directory: City of Berkeley public records
Why you can trust it
Verified writers
Posting takes a verified Berkeley .edu address. Reading is open to everyone.
Read by a person
A person reads every review before it posts. No fake reviews, no AI, no scraped listings.
Neutral both directions
A landlord who did right is logged at the same volume as one who didn't. The record leans neither way.
Anonymous to landlords
Reviews are logged by lease year, never by name.
It starts thin and fills in one lease at a time. Nothing on file. Yet.
If a landlord kept part of your deposit, or took three months to fix the heater, say what happened. It takes about a minute. It is the one thing that reaches the next tenant before they sign.