Rent is the biggest check most people write. They deserve to know who's cashing it.
LandlordTea is a public review platform for landlords, buildings, and management companies — built so renters can make informed decisions and good landlords get the credit they earn.
The lopsided market
The original idea was simple: it's Rate My Professor, but for landlords. Before you sign a year of your life away, you should be able to look someone up — the way they look you up with credit checks, background screens, and reference calls.
This isn't about bashing landlords. One of the landlords that inspired this site was genuinely great — the kind who fixes a heater on Christmas Eve and returns deposits without a fight. Those landlords deserve to stand out. The bad ones deserve accountability. Both make the market better.
Transparency
Honest, specific reviews from people who actually lived there.
Accountability
Public reputation gives bad actors a reason to do better.
Better housing
Information helps everyone find — and run — better places to live.
Where this matters most
- 🎓 College campuses, where students sign their first leases and rarely know what they're walking into.
- 🗽 High-rent markets like New York City, New Jersey, and other competitive metros where mistakes are expensive.
- 🔑 Anywhere a renter is choosing between units and wishes they could choose between landlords.
A review layer for apartment search
We believe landlord reputation should be visible everywhere people look for housing. Over time, LandlordTea aims to become a trusted review layer that apartment platforms, universities, and tenant organizations can integrate — through legitimate, consent-based data partnerships.