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How it works

Watch one unit go from empty to earning.

Seven steps, and Rentari.ai does the drafting, the chasing and the paperwork at every one of them. It writes the listing, answers the enquiry, reads the maintenance photo and posts the ledger line, then stops and waits for your approval. Here is the whole loop, on the screens and the photos it actually runs on.

7Steps, end to end
1System, not seven tabs
YouApprove every step
50States tracked
A four-storey red and cream brick apartment building with bay windows, under a dark sky
Rentari AI This morning

3 things need you today.

Listing drafted, Unit 3B Approve
4 enquiries answered Review
Rent posted, 6 units $11,400
It acts Most landlord software is a filing cabinet with a rent button: you type, it stores. Rentari does the typing. It drafts the listing, writes the reply, reads the photo, prepares the notice and posts the ledger line, then hands it to you for one click.
1 Marketing the unit

The listing writes itself from the unit's own facts.

You add the property once. Beds, baths, square footage, amenities and rent live on the unit record, so Rentari drafts the headline and the description from what is already true about that unit instead of handing you an empty box. Edit any line you disagree with, then publish.

The headline and description drafted from the unit record
A rent suggestion from beds, baths, sqft and zip before you list
Your Rentari.ai listing page goes live the moment you approve
One-click copy for the big portals, so nothing gets retyped
Listing marketing
A bright modern rental kitchen with a white stone island, wood and charcoal cabinets and a garden window
Listing drafted 2 bed, 1 bath

"Renovated 2 bed with an open kitchen and a quiet garden outlook."

Written from the unit record, not a blank box.

Suggested rent $1,850
2 The leasing inbox

The 9pm enquiry does not wait until Monday.

Portal enquiries and email land in one place. Rentari reads each one and answers the question that was actually asked, checks the prospect against the criteria you wrote, and offers a showing slot from your real calendar. On Co-pilot the reply sits in front of you until you send it.

Portal and email enquiries in a single inbox
Answers the specific question, not a template blast
Offers a real slot from your calendar, not "when suits you"
You approve each reply, or let the routine ones send
The AI leasing inbox
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The Rentari leasing inbox, showing prospect enquiries with an AI-drafted reply waiting for approval
3 Screening the applicant

The same written criteria, applied to everyone.

You write your rental criteria once. Credit, eviction history, income and identity come back measured against those criteria, in the same order, for every applicant who applies. Rentari shows you what the reports found and what your own rule says about it. The decision stays yours.

Credit, eviction, background and identity in one run
Scored against the criteria you published, not a hidden model
Every applicant gets the same questions in the same order
The FCRA paperwork prepared for you when you decline
AI tenant screening
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A completed screening in Rentari showing credit, income and background results measured against the landlord's own written criteria, with the adverse-action notice explained
4 Lease and signature

A state-specific lease, signed in the same window.

The lease is built from the property, the unit and the approved applicant, on a template for the state the building is actually in. Signing happens inside Rentari, in order, with an audit trail on the executed copy. There is no per-envelope fee and no third-party signing account for your tenant to create.

Built from the record you already have, not retyped
The template matches the state the property sits in
Ordered routing, so co-signers go in the right sequence
No per-envelope fee, and the signed copy carries its audit trail
The digital lease
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A lease prepared in Rentari with its signature fields and signing order laid out for both parties
5 Collecting the rent

Rent arrives without you chasing it.

Rent is scheduled from the day the lease starts. Tenants pay by bank transfer or card, and a pay link works even for a tenant who never creates an account. When someone runs late the reminders go out on the ladder you set, and the late fee is calculated against your state's cap rather than a flat guess.

Autopay by bank transfer or card
A pay link that needs no tenant login
Reminders on a ladder you write, at the days you choose
Late fees checked against the state cap before they post
Smart rent collection
A pair of white pre-war apartment buildings on a wide city street in bright sun
Rent collected September, paid out
Unit 2B, autopay $1,850
Unit 4A, pay link $2,100
6 Maintenance

Rentari looks at the picture.

Your tenant reports the problem from their own portal and attaches a photo off their phone. Drop that photo onto a new ticket and the AI reads the image itself: what it is looking at, how urgent it is, whether there is a safety issue, and roughly what the repair should cost. Every field comes back pre-filled and every field stays editable.

Vision AI reads the photo, not just the words beside it
Category, urgency, a safety warning and a cost range
A vendor suggested from the ones you already use
If the AI cannot read it, the ticket still files and nothing is lost
Every maintenance feature
New ticket Sent by your tenant
A close photograph of a white waste pipe leaking at a rag-wrapped joint, water dripping down a brick wall
Tenant photo

Leaking waste pipe at the joint

Read from the photo. Every field is a suggestion you can change before the ticket saves.

  • Category Plumbing
  • Urgency High
  • Safety Water damage risk
  • Cost range $180 to $340
Suggested vendor: the plumber you used in June. You dispatch.
7 The books

Every payment already landed in the right place.

Rent, fees, vendor bills and deposits post to the ledger as they happen, mapped to the Schedule E line they belong on. Nothing waits for a January export. When the year ends the report is already written, and the vendors who went over the threshold have their 1099 ready to go.

Income and expenses categorised the moment they post
Schedule E mapping built in, per property
1099 tracking for the vendors who cross the threshold
Owner statements, P&L and cash flow whenever you ask
Auto-accounting
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The Rentari accounting screen with categorised income and expense lines mapped to Schedule E
Why it is different

Not a better spreadsheet. A different category.

Every platform in this market can store a lease and take a card payment. The question worth asking is what happens in the hours between those two events, and who does that work.

Software that stores

  • You write the listing, it saves the listing.
  • The enquiry sits unread until you open the tab.
  • A maintenance photo is an attachment nobody reads.
  • The books get sorted out in January, by you.

Software that acts

  • The listing is drafted before you open the page.
  • The 9pm enquiry has an answer and a showing slot.
  • The photo becomes a triaged ticket with a vendor on it.
  • The books are closed on the day the money moved.

It does the work, then asks

The typing is the part it takes off you. Rentari drafts the listing, writes the reply, prepares the notice and posts the ledger line, then puts the finished thing in front of you for one click. You are approving work, not producing it.

You set how much of it runs

Co-pilot proposes and waits for you. Mixed lets the routine things run and escalates the judgment calls. Autopilot runs the loop and still stops at anything with money or law attached. You move the dial whenever you want, and every action is logged either way.

See the three pilot modes

It sees, it does not only read

A maintenance photo becomes a triaged ticket. A receipt becomes a categorised ledger line. A lease gets read against your state's current rules before a tenant ever signs it. A text box is not the only way to tell this system something.

One system, one context

The AI can answer about your portfolio because it can see your portfolio: the units, the leases, the balances, the open tickets, the vendors. That is why it can tell you what needs you today instead of handing you a search result to interpret.

Ask it anything

And when you want the answer, you just ask.

Mozart is the operator sitting on top of all seven steps. It already has the portfolio loaded, so "which units are empty next month" and "who has not paid" are questions, not reports you have to go and build. When the answer needs an action taken, it proposes the action and waits for your yes.

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The Mozart chat panel answering a question about the landlord's portfolio and proposing the next action
FAQ

Questions about the process

Does the AI send things without me seeing them?
Only if you tell it to. On Co-pilot, the default, every outbound message and every action waits for your approval. Mixed lets the routine things run and escalates the judgment calls. Autopilot runs the loop and still stops at anything involving money or law. You change the setting whenever you want, and every action is logged whichever mode you are in.
What happens when the AI gets something wrong?
You edit it. Every draft is a suggestion in an editable field, not a locked result: the listing copy, the reply, the triage category, the cost range. Where the AI cannot reach a confident answer it says so and hands you the blank field rather than guessing, and if the AI is unavailable entirely the underlying action still works, so a ticket still files and rent still collects.
Is this only worth it for a big portfolio?
No. The seven steps are the same whether you own one unit or four hundred, and the work the AI takes off you is proportionally larger when you are the whole back office. Landlords with a single rental use the same drafting, screening, e-sign and accounting as management companies do.
How long does it take to get a unit running?
Adding a property and marketing the first unit is an afternoon, because the listing is drafted for you rather than written from scratch. Bringing an existing portfolio across takes longer and depends on what you are moving: leases, tenants, balances and documents can be imported, and the migration guide walks the order to do it in.

Run the loop on your own unit.

Add one property and watch the first step happen: the listing drafted from the unit's own facts, waiting for you to approve it. The other six work the same way.

You approve every step. Change how much runs on its own whenever you want.