RentCheck

RentCheck is a rental property inspection software company based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Its platform shifts inspections from staff site visits to tenant-guided walkthroughs: a property manager syncs properties and residents, schedules an inspection from pre-built move-in, move-out, turn, annual, periodic, exterior, maintenance or pre-acquisition templates, and invites the resident, who completes a step-by-step guided capture in a mobile app with time-stamped photos, appliance checks, room condition ratings and notes. Managers then review submissions, request revisions where quality or detail is insufficient, and generate inspection reports. The company states that on average 80% of inspections are completed by tenants after adoption, allowing internal teams to focus on exception cases and problem units.

The product includes automated reminder sequences (two weeks before, one week before, daily for three days before, on the due date, and daily for three days afterward), inspection status and progress tracking showing whether a request was delivered, opened, accepted and started and where a resident stalled, real-time dashboards, maintenance reporting, move-in/move-out comparisons, and AI-powered damage detection used to flag critical issues and prioritize which inspections to review. There is no cap on the number of inspections a customer can create or schedule. RentCheck integrates with property management systems including AppFolio, Rent Manager and Buildium, and has published product updates covering automatic creation of Property Meld work orders from RentCheck and inspection automation via AppFolio Realm-X Flows.

A separate resident-facing experience is distributed through the iOS App Store and Google Play; renters accept an inspection invite by signing up with the invited email address or entering a four-digit code, and retain a time-stamped report described by the company as unalterable and downloadable at any time.

Founding story

Co-founder Marco Nelson, a Naval officer and long-time landlord managing properties across several states, repeatedly encountered incomplete documentation, maintenance oversights and disputes over property condition. Co-founder Lydia Winkler, then a law student, had to take a landlord to court to recover her security deposit despite leaving the unit clean and documenting it with time-stamped photos; she won, but attributed the outcome to legal knowledge most renters lack. The two met at Tulane during their MBA program, concluded the problems were industry-wide rather than personal, and started RentCheck to address them.

Business model

RentCheck sells inspection software to property management companies and landlords on a self-serve and sales-assisted basis, with a published pricing page, a 14-day free trial that requires no credit card, and multiple plan tiers, some of which include training and onboarding. Free live chat support is offered to all customers, and the company performs initial property data uploads from CSV or Excel exports at no charge. The resident-facing mobile app is provided to tenants of customer properties.

Subscription software for property managers, with plan tiers and a free trial; inspection volume is not capped or metered.

Traction

The company reports more than 1,000 property management companies as customers and says it has customers in all 50 U.S. states. It cites an average resident satisfaction rating of 4.8 out of 5 for RentCheck inspections, an average of 80% of inspections completed by tenants after adoption, and that 87% of customers say RentCheck has improved their overall ability to manage properties. A published customer example describes Monte Vista Properties scaling from 200 to 500 units while using RentCheck. The company also states that customers using RentCheck as their standard internal process recover roughly $60 per unit per year in management fees.

Latest developments

Company blog posts list automatic creation of Property Meld work orders from RentCheck (September 2026) and automation of property inspections using AppFolio Realm-X Flows together with RentCheck (August 2026). Third-party trackers report an additional seed round dated March 2026, though the reported amounts differ between sources.