All Forum Posts by: Sam Goldsmith

@Cliff H. The point of the platform would be to verify that the person you are calling isn't the prospective tenant's friend or family member, and also to provide ratings from former landlords. Like how passengers and drivers both have ratings in uber and lyft IIRC. 

The most important problem to solve is figuring out how to make some kind of incentive for landlords to input quality info into the site about their former tenants.

Ideally, there would be enough landlords on the site along with easy enough functionality that you could verify any landlord reference by contacting that landlord on the site. That’s getting ahead of myself a little though so it would need to provide value at startup somehow. Basically the idea is to easily verify landlord references. I’m not sure exactly how yet. I just had this random thought that prospective tenants could easily just give a phone number for their friend and arrange to have that friend(s) pose as a landlord. Perhaps there is a business opportunity in circumventing this.

I know that tenant screening services exist, but is there anything out there that makes sure a tenant’s references are legitimate? I had an idea for a website/app business that landlords would sign up for and use to verify tenant references somehow. Perhaps it could be developed into some kind of landlord Facebook