BUILT BY RENTERS, FOR RENTERS WITH A TOUGH BACKGROUND
EVICTIONS · FELONIES · INCOME · VOUCHERS · LOW OR DAMAGED CREDIT
Stop paying application fees to get turned down. We read landlords' written rules and call to ask the questions you can't ask without hurting your chances. Preview your matches before you pay a cent.
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We never share what you told us with landlords.
Credit, income, evictions, record, vouchers, pets, the honest picture. Takes two minutes.
We collect each landlord's actual screening requirements from their own published criteria and by asking them directly, then check your situation against all of it.
Every property whose stated requirements line up with your situation, and every one that told us they weigh the whole picture, separated so you know which is which.
1,483 Minnesota properties, across 186 cities and towns. 1,087 link to the landlord’s own written criteria. 687 we phoned and asked what a page never tells you. 459 have both. Every one carries the application fee and the leasing phone number before you apply.
Example results
26 places worth applying to
Example Court Apartments
Match$875
Minneapolis
Your eviction is outside the five-year window they look at, and they told us collections are judged case by case rather than counted against you.
2.5x income · $45 application fee
Example Flats
Worth a shot$940
St. Paul
They have not said how they treat a record, and they told us they weigh the whole picture. Worth a call before you pay.
3x income · no application fee
Illustrative example. The real cards carry the landlord's own words, and a link to their written criteria where they publish one.
We’re renters. We’ve had the bad credit, the eviction on the record, the stack of application fees that went nowhere. Nobody would tell us straight who’d actually take us. So we found their rules, called to ask the rest, and wrote down exactly what they said — including the ones who wouldn’t say. That’s the whole reason this exists.
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What your $29 gets you
Most of the time it is not your credit score. It is money you still owe a past landlord. That is the one rule that decides more applications than any other, and many properties turn down anyone who still owes, while only some will take a payment plan.
An eviction filing is the next most common reason, and at most properties the date decides it. Your list shows how each property treats both, so you stop paying fees where the answer was already no.
Ask for their screening criteria in writing first. Minnesota law says a landlord has to give you their criteria before taking an application fee.
If they turn you down for a reason that was not on it, they have to give the fee back. They also have to return it if the unit goes to someone who applied before you.
Almost never. Very few of the properties we checked publish a minimum score at all. Everywhere else, a person looks at what is actually on your report, which is why "your score is too low" is rarely the real reason.
Your list shows what each property told us about credit, including the ones that take no credit history or damaged credit.
Where a landlord publishes a rent, it is on your list. At many income-based buildings rent is a share of what you earn rather than a set price, and the card says so. For the rest, the leasing office will tell you before you pay anything.
Age is not what is keeping you out. Almost every property on this list has no age limit at all.
A small number are age restricted. About half of those want you to be 62 or older, very few will take you at 55, and the rest told us they are senior housing without ever saying which. If you tell us you are 62, all of them are checked for you. If you are 55, the 62-only buildings come off your list, and the ones that never said reach you as worth a shot, with the question to ask them: is the minimum age 55 or 62?
Most of the properties on this list told us they accept a housing voucher.
Some told us they do not. The moment you tell us you have a voucher, those come off your list entirely, so you never spend an application fee finding out. A few would not answer the question, and those reach you as worth a shot with the exact wording to use when you call.
No. When you tell us you have a voucher we stop running the rent and income check on you, because with a voucher you pay roughly 30% of your income rather than the listed rent.
What still decides it is whether the property takes the voucher at all, and that is the answer we go and get.
A voucher belongs to you and moves with you. In an income-based building the help is attached to the building and stays there.
Some of this list is that second kind: public housing, and project-based Section 8. Rent in those is about 30% of your income and you do not use a voucher in them. Many of the properties here set rent from your income rather than from a price list, and we run no income multiple on any of those.
Many of the properties here have a maximum income, because they are income restricted. Being under it is the requirement.
The figure we hold is the limit for a household of one, and the real limit rises with every person in your household. So we only rule you out if you are a household of one and over a current limit. If your household is two or more, the property still comes to you with a note, because the limit for your size is higher than the one we can show you.
Because it is what they said, and we will not upgrade it to a yes.
When a property tells us they look at an eviction or a record case by case, that is not a promise. It means there is no automatic no and a person decides, looking at your whole application. We show it as case by case, we give you the question to ask, and we leave the judgement to you. Turning those into a yes would be selling you something we cannot deliver.
Two ways, and your list tells you which one it came from.
Most come with the property’s or the company’s own written screening criteria, and where they publish one we link you straight to the document so you can read it yourself. Many come from a phone call where we asked the way a renter would, and those carry the date we called. Plenty carry both.
Every property on the list has all five of the things that actually decide an application answered: credit, eviction, criminal record, money owed to a past landlord, and vouchers. If one of those is missing the property does not go on the list at all.
You see your match count before you pay anything. If we find nothing for you we do not charge you, and our resources page is yours free.
Their actual screening requirements, not a guess from a rental ad.
We work for you, not the landlords.
Clear on what each place actually told us.
We show properties based on the requirements landlords share with us and the information you provide. Qualification isn't guaranteed — it's a strong head start. Housing Verified is an independent service and isn't affiliated with any landlord. We support fair housing.