For people letting a home
Good people, good homes.
An agent’s “they seem fine” is a thin thing to trust with the house. Renticulate is where you read the person before you hand over the keys, and the rent you set is the rent — not a fee taken off the top, and not a bidding war you did not ask for.
Early access for people letting in Perth.
What letting feels like now
You are asked to pick from a pile of forms, or from a group chat where two people are using the same photograph. The agent has already taken their cut. If it goes badly, the bond is a polite fiction, and the story does not follow them.
Illustrative scenes, not real customers.
“The agent said they were lovely. I shook their hand on move-in day. That was the whole reference.”
“They damaged the place and moved on. The next owner will never hear about it.”
“The Facebook thread had thirty comments and two people using the same photo. I had no way to tell who was real.”
“By the time the agent took their fee, the rent barely covered the mortgage.”
How it works for you
People apply to you, not to a switchboard. You read a record, then you talk. The agent’s fee is not sitting between you and a fair return.
Your place, your words, your standard. People apply to you, not to a switchboard.
Endorsements, ratings and verifications sit on the profile. You can see who you are about to hand the keys to.
Past tenants can rate and review you. You get a right of reply. Trust is not a one-way street.
Pick on character. Message them directly. The agent’s fee is not sitting between you and a fair return.
What you see
This is the shape of someone applying, and the profile tenants will read about you. The people are examples. The worry is not.
Example
Landlord
Owner · two homes in Perth
Example rating 4.8 · from past tenants
“Replied the same day the fence came down in a storm.”
“Clear about the lease, and fair when we handed the keys back.”
Right of reply
“The hot water took a week. That was hard with a baby in the house.”
“Fair comment. The part was delayed. I now keep a plumber who can come the same week.”
Illustrative example. Not a real person or a real review.
Open this sample profileExample
Tenant
Nurse · Fremantle
Example rating 4.9 · two tenancies
“Quiet, paid on time, and left the place better than they found it.”
“The kind of neighbour who brings the bins in without being asked.”
Illustrative example. Not a real person.
Open this sample profileSafety
You are about to trust a stranger with the place you own. They are trusting you with a bond and a year of their life. Both of you should be able to see who the other has been.
Verification on both sides. Listings tied to a real landlord. A tenant you can check before you hand over keys — or a bond. Fake listings and fake applicants get less room to work.
Tenants review landlords. Landlords review tenants. The point is a fair picture, not a pile-on. People who do the right thing get to show it.
A review is not the last word. Anyone reviewed can respond, in public, next to the original. One hard week does not have to be the whole story — and a pattern does not get to disappear.
Consistently good behaviour shows up. Consistently poor behaviour does too, so it cannot simply be left behind at the next suburb. This is a verified track record with a right of reply — not a blacklist.
Neighbourhood
A home is more than a lease. Renticulate includes the people around it — the tradie who knows the street, and the neighbour who can help for an afternoon.
Tenants and landlords can reach gardeners, cleaners, painters and handymen nearby through Renticulate Trade.
Browse Renticulate TradeA verge that needs mowing. A garden to water for a fortnight. A couch that will not fit through the door alone. Post it, and another tenant or landlord close by can pick it up for a bit of extra cash.
Example jobs, to show the idea.
Open the neighbourhood boardThe aim is simple: stronger, friendlier neighbourhoods, not just a signed lease.
Why character, not the highest offer
A bidding war feels like protection. It mostly selects for who can pay more this month, not for who will look after the place and still be there next year.
No one is invited to outbid the listing. You are not running an auction you did not mean to start.
How someone treated the last home is visible on the next one. Damage and care both have somewhere to go, with a right of reply.
Past tenants can review you. That is how a careful landlord gets chosen by a careful tenant, instead of whoever is most desperate.
The aim is a tenancy that lasts, because both sides chose each other with their eyes open.
Early access
Leave your name if you are letting. We will write when you can list where the home is. That is the only thing we will use it for.
Good people, good homes.
Renticulate is in Perth and in Singapore. Pick one. You can switch later from the top of the page. We don’t guess from your network.
Photographs: Elizabeth Quay by Dietmar Rabich, and Marina Bay by Chensiyuan. Both CC BY-SA 4.0.