No agency needed. Run the joint ingoing and outgoing inspection with your tenant on your phone — photographed, signed by both of you, sealed — and settle the deposit with the evidence in hand.
A lease begins and ends with a walk through the property. The Rental Housing Act asks landlord and tenant to do that walk together and to write down what they find — because a deposit dispute is almost always an argument about the state of a room that nobody recorded.
InspectorPro puts that walk on your phone. Every room is rated, every mark is photographed, both of you sign before anyone leaves, and the report is in both inboxes within minutes. It cannot be changed afterwards.
At the end of the lease you do the same walk against the first report. Fair wear and tear is separated from damage with evidence on both sides, and the deposit is settled inside the legal window — without the argument.
What the Act asks of the deposit, and where each report lands in it.
Before the tenant moves in: the joint inspection, photographed and signed by both. The baseline every later claim is measured against.
In the three days before the tenant vacates: the same walk, against the ingoing report, item by item.
Only damage — never fair wear and tear — may be deducted, each deduction tied to a photographed item on the two reports.
No deductions: the deposit with interest within seven days. Deductions: within fourteen days, with receipts. Both of you hold the reports that justify it.
One report at a time, no setup fee. Tell us about the property and we will open your account.