For boards considering a rental cap

Rental Insights

The first step to a rental cap: know how many homes are rented.

Before a community can add a rental cap, it needs a rental analysis: how many homes are rented today, and which ones. Rental Insights pulls public data from several sources to estimate your rental rate, gives you an idea of where to set the cap, and hands you a list of the homes to contact for tenant details or to confirm whether they are rented.

the estimated rental rate and the signals behind it
  • An estimated rental rate for the whole community
  • A starting point for where to set your rental cap
  • A list of homes to contact for tenant details or to confirm rental status
  • Built from public records, not self-reporting

Built from public record, not self-reporting

A home with no homestead exemption whose owner gets mail somewhere else is very likely rented. Rental Insights reads those signals from county appraisal data for every property, adds recent rental listings and your own register, and arrives at a rental rate that does not depend on anyone volunteering it.

A list of homes to reach out to

Every home comes with the rental signals found for it, so you know whose door to knock on. Contact the owners of likely rentals to collect tenant details or confirm their status, and the estimate becomes a count. Bring that figure to the meeting where the board sets its cap, rather than adjudicating between people quoting different numbers.

every unit with the rental signals found for it

Every home on the map, by what is known about it

Zoom into any street and see which homes are owner-occupied, which the county flags as likely rentals, and which have been listed for rent recently. Patterns a spreadsheet hides are obvious on a map.

a few blocks of the community, each home colored by its rental status

Guides on this topic

HOA rental caps explained, and how to track one without a spreadsheet

7 min read

How to run a rental analysis before your HOA sets a rental cap

6 min read

How to find unregistered rentals in your HOA

4 min read

Often used alongside

Rental Detection

Find homes being rented that nobody registered with the HOA.

Rental Tracker

Track every rental against your cap, and prove where you stand.

Homeowner Voting

Elections owners can vote in from a link, with paper ballots counted alongside.

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