independent apartment reviews - Tenantree

I live and rent in Chicago - actually i need to find a new place this spring - and I’ve always had a hard time finding enough info about the places I’m about to move into. I guess I could have asked tougher questions to the landlord during the apartment tour, or maybe gone out of my way to awkwardly ask a few questions to the current residents ... but also it’s almost 2020: I don’t have to walk into a restaurant and bother the people eating to find out if it’s good, I can just read a few Yelp reviews and make a pretty informed choice. I must have read like 50 customer reviews on Amazon and Etsy while doing holiday shopping and it’s crazy to me that this kind of info isn’t widely available absolutely everywhere to me as an apartment hunter. And there are some reviews around but they’re scattered among several sites and largely skewed by landlords and so I decided to make Tenantree, a centralized platform for independent, anonymous apartment reviews. It’s a super simple site for now: If you’re looking for a new place to live, use Tenantree alongside listing sites and read reviews from current and former tenants to make sure you make the right decision. There aren’t a ton of reviews just yet so feel free to look around and leave an anonymous review if you want. If enough of us do, then maybe we can get apartment hunting into the world of transparency and customer reviews. Thanks for reading -Tom