Why we built Vett
By The Vett team
Renters sign 12-month financial commitments with less information than a twenty-dollar kitchen gadget gets on Amazon. Landlord reputation lives in scattered Reddit threads, city websites that only a paralegal can navigate, and word-of-mouth that doesn't travel across neighborhoods. The result is predictable: the same buildings rack up the same complaints year after year, and the next renter walks in unarmed.
Vett exists to close that gap. Every review on the platform is tied to a real lease agreement, manually verified by our team before it publishes. Every landlord profile layers in public records from 50+ government APIs — housing violations, eviction filings, court cases, assessor data — so the complaints have context and the good landlords can't be drowned by loud voices.
Why now
The FTC began enforcing its Consumer Review Rule in December 2025, and a wave of review-site lawsuits has forced the industry to finally document verification methodology. For Vett, that documentation isn't defensive — it's the product.
What's next
We're heads-down on three things:
- More cities. We ship data pipelines weekly. If your city isn't covered yet, drop your email on the homepage and we'll tell you the moment it goes live.
- Landlord-response tooling. Verified landlords can reply to reviews publicly. Good landlords benefit from being visible; bad ones benefit from showing their work.
- The Vett Index. An annual data report on America's worst-performing landlords outside NYC — using the same public records every tenant-rights lawyer already cites, just made searchable.
Thanks for being here early.