Our Philosophy
You deserve to know before you sign.
Renting is the biggest recurring financial commitment most people make. The landlord runs your credit, your employment, your references. You get a listing photo and a 20-minute showing. That's the deal. We think it's broken.
The reality
Landlords ask for your credit score, your tax returns, your pay stubs, your references, your employment letter. They know everything about you before they hand over the keys. You know almost nothing about them — or what you're actually moving into.
Researchers call it "extreme information asymmetry." Tenants call it normal. It's not. It's a structural failure — and the people who've lived through it are the only ones who can fix it.
The Asymmetry
In cities everywhere, vacancy rates are shrinking, rents are climbing past what households can sustain, and tenants are being displaced through loopholes dressed up as renovations. The market doesn't just disadvantage renters — it's structurally designed to keep them in the dark.
The heat that dies every December. The landlord who's warm at the showing and silent when things break. The "renovation" that conveniently requires you to leave — permanently. None of this shows up in a listing. But the person who lived there before you could tell you in five minutes.
The biggest financial decision most people make, and they have less information than they'd get buying headphones online.
So every new tenant walks the same blind path. Every renter discovers the same problems six months too late. This isn't bad luck — it's a missing layer. The information exists. The people who hold it just never had somewhere to put it.
What we're building
RENP is not a listing site. It's a permanent, public record of what it's actually like to live somewhere — written by the people who lived it.
Search any address. See what tenants actually experienced. Not marketing copy. Not an agent's pitch. The heat that never worked, the landlord who fixed everything within hours, the building that looks dated but runs like clockwork — the things you only learn after you've signed and moved in. Except now you learn them before.
Properties carry their history. Landlords earn their reputation. What someone went through doesn't disappear when they move out. It stays — so the next person walks in with open eyes.
Housing has reviews for everything except the thing that matters most. RENP is the layer that was always missing.
Things we hold true
Your home is not a transaction. It's your safety, your sleep, your health, your daily life.
The person who paid rent there for two years knows more than the agent who showed it for twenty minutes.
Transparency is not hostility toward landlords. Good landlords have nothing to fear from it.
Information that could protect someone should never be gated behind money or access.
One honest review can save the next person months of stress, thousands of dollars, or worse.
Our Principles
These aren't aspirations. They're decisions we've already made about how RENP works — and what we refuse to compromise on.
01
Community-owned truth
Every review comes from someone who actually lived there. No paid placements. No boosted profiles. No way to buy a better score. The community decides what's true — not the platform, and never the landlord.
02
Free to access, always
Reading reviews will never cost money. If someone's experience can save you from a bad landlord or a dangerous unit, that information shouldn't sit behind a paywall. Full stop.
03
Accountability, not punishment
This isn't about destroying landlords. It's about building a record where good ones stand out and negligent ones are visible. Accountability raises the bar for everyone.
04
Privacy with purpose
You control your identity. Share what you experienced without exposing who you are. We verify that you lived there — we don't expose you for speaking up.
05
Built to compound
Every review adds to a permanent, growing record of what a property is actually like over time. The platform gets more valuable with every person who contributes. That's by design.
06
Technology that stays invisible
AI organizes, surfaces, and protects the information. It never replaces human judgment. The technology works behind the scenes so the human experience stays at the front.
Who we are
RENP is built by R3LAB — a Toronto-based lab that builds technology at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and the real-world systems most people just accept as broken. We study how systems fail people, then we build the missing piece.
Our approach
Complex problems, simple tools
The housing information gap is systemic. The solution doesn't have to be. Search an address. Read what people experienced. Share your own. That's it. The complexity lives in the engineering underneath — never in the experience of using it.
Our commitment
Built for people, not for profit
We don't sell tenant data to landlords. We don't let property managers pay to suppress reviews. We don't run the platform to maximize engagement. RENP exists to serve the people who use it — tenants, buyers, and anyone who believes you shouldn't have to gamble on where you live.
Be the warning you never got.
Someone moved into that apartment before you and wished they could tell the next person what they were walking into. Now they can. So can you.
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