The Workflow

From vacant listing
to validated tenant.

One clear process. Five steps. No extra hires, no patchwork tools, no manual busywork eating your team's day.

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Step 01 — Create & List

Set your criteria. Activate your listing. Be live in under 10 minutes.

Create your company or owner profile, define the screening criteria you want applied to your listings, and publish your first vacancy. No lengthy onboarding, no sales call required for small landlords.

Build your company or owner profile
Set credit, income, criminal, and other screening criteria
Publish your listing and start receiving prospective tenant interest
No sales call required for small landlords
New Listing — 2BR Oak Street
Screening criteria applied
Active
Monthly rent
$1,850
Min. credit score
640+
Min. income ratio
3× rent
Criminal check
Required
Lease ledger
Required
Profiles received
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March — Showings
2BR Oak Street · 8 scheduled
8 booked
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Step 02 — Coordinate Showings

Showings your way — without turning your team into schedulers.

RentSmart supports in-person showings and self-access showings where hardware is available. Coordination happens in the platform, so your team stays focused on leasing — not logistics.

In-person showings coordinated within the platform
Self-access showings with CodeBox hardware
Time-limited access codes issued automatically per showing
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Step 03 — Receive Tenant Profiles

Complete validated information. Before your team opens the file.

Prospective tenants build a reusable RentSmart profile that includes everything your team would otherwise chase down, request, and manually validate. The work is done before the profile lands in your review queue.

Credit history and score
Income and employment validation
Bank statement analysis
Lease ledger — rent amount and on-time payment history
Criminal history check
Alex M. — Prospective Tenant Profile
Submitted for 2BR Oak Street
Validated
Credit Score
712 · Req: 640+
Meets criteria
Income Validated
$72,400/yr · 3.9× rent
Meets criteria
Employment
Acme Corp · 3 years
Validated
Lease Ledger
On-time: 24 of 24 months
Clear
Criminal Check
No disqualifying records
Clear
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Validation Report
Alex M. · 2BR Oak Street
All criteria met
Meets income requirement
✓ Yes
Meets credit requirement
✓ Yes
Criminal check
✓ Clear
Document flags
✓ None
Fraud risk score
✓ Low
Identity consistency
✓ Confirmed
Step 04 — Review & Validate

Your criteria applied. Fraud caught early. Work done before you open the file.

RentSmart validates each profile against the criteria you set. Fraud detection and document inconsistency checks flag issues before your team spends time reviewing. You receive a clean, validated profile ready for your decision.

Validated against your criteria — not RentSmart's
Fraud and document inconsistency detection built in
Average of 7 full profiles per active listing
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Step 05 — Make the Final Decision

You decide. Always. RentSmart never approves or denies.

RentSmart prepares and validates — the final leasing decision is always yours. Review the validated profile, make your call, and move forward. If you deny, RentSmart supports the adverse action notice process.

You review the validated profile and make the final call
Adverse action support included if the prospective tenant is declined
Consistent, criteria-based review at every decision point
Leasing Decision
2BR Oak Street · Alex M.
RentSmart
Validates & prepares the profile
You
Make the final leasing decision
Adverse action support is included. RentSmart never approves or denies — that decision always belongs to you.
The Full Picture

One platform. Zero added headcount.

Up to 21 hours of manual leasing work removed per vacancy.

Create & List
Under 10 min to go live
Coordinate
In-person or self-access
Receive Profiles
Fully validated data
Validate
Against your criteria
You Decide
Always your call
Ready to start?

See the workflow in action.

Book a demo and walk through each step with us, or sign up and go live on your own in under 10 minutes.