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VA, DC and MD renters

Check a rental before you send money.

Paste a listing or add a lease photo. We check the price, the scam warning signs and the lease clauses, and quote the words behind each one.

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Paste the ad, the landlord's message, or lease clauses.

Photo or screenshot (optional)
We don't save your text or photos. What we send

No account and no logs of your text. Your photo is resized on your device (which also strips location data) and dropped after the check.

Before sending, we remove phone numbers, emails and long ID or account numbers from your text. To read it, we send the text and photo to Google's Gemma 4 model through the free Gemini API, where Google may review inputs to improve its products. Cover names, signatures and account numbers in photos first.

If you flag a listing as a scam, we store only a one-way fingerprint of its street address or contact and a count, so others can see how many people flagged it. Never the text itself.

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Three verdicts, the evidence behind each one, and the questions to ask before you pay.

  • Price check

    Rent against Census and HUD figures for the same size unit in that ZIP code.

  • Scam risk

    The FTC's rental-scam warning signs, with the exact words quoted.

  • Lease clauses

    Clauses that may conflict with DC, Maryland or Virginia rules.