Background-check your next apartment.

Enter an address in DC, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Fairfax County, Arlington, or Loudoun County and get a full report instantly. No account required.

Listing sites help you find apartments. RentSift is the pre-lease risk file: address-level complaints, inspection flags, licensing, rent-control context, and a practical checklist of what to ask before applying or signing.

Government records first: Open Data DC, county Socrata portals, Census Bureau, EIA, NCES, and jurisdiction-specific crime and code enforcement APIs, plus clearly labeled licensed sources such as Walk Score and OpenStreetMap-derived places data. Reports identify each data category's source and link to source pages where available.

RentSift uses the most recent rows each source returns and labels the source basis in the report. Utility rates are monthly from the EIA, school quality data uses the current loaded state datasets, and rent-price pages use the latest tracked snapshots.

Enter the address on RentSift. The property-condition rows show 311 complaints filed at or near that address, including pest, rodent, trash, and housing maintenance issues, sourced from Open Data DC.

RentSift shows a utility budget range where the public sources support it, using EIA electric and gas rates plus Census utility-cost and utility-inclusion context. Treat it as a source-backed estimate to discuss with the landlord, not a bill prediction.

RentSift pulls reported crime incidents near the searched address and labels the radius, source, and incident mix where local data supports it. The report shows source-labeled context instead of asking you to trust a proprietary safety rating.

Run an address report to check building complaints, nearby crime context, utility costs, school assignments, walkability, permits, and flood risk. DC rent-control caps changed on May 1, 2026: OTA lists 4.1% for most rent-controlled tenants and 2.1% for qualifying elderly or disability tenants.

Many non-exempt DC rental units are subject to rent stabilization. Per the DC Office of the Tenant Advocate, the rent-control year that began May 1, 2026 caps most covered rent increases at 4.1%, with a 2.1% cap for qualifying elderly or disability tenants.

RentSift does not publish an average rent. Its weekly listing snapshot records the lowest published price for each unit size at each tracked building, then reports medians across those building entry prices. These are not signed rents, a full availability average, or necessarily base rent. Use the Rent Prices page for the current snapshot and HUD gross-rent benchmarks.

Arlington, VA has growing coverage, including weekly lowest-published listing prices, renter-relevant service requests within 0.25 miles of the searched pin, APS school attendance zones, walkability, transit, demographics, amenities, utilities, and eviction-risk context. Arlington's service-request feed does not carry housing-code complaints, so a zero is not a clean-building finding. Alexandria is not a proof market yet; reports may run with area context, but we do not present it as Fairfax-level coverage.

Safety data is shown as nearby public-record context: reported incident counts, against-people versus property context where available, source radius, and source links. It is not a claim that a building is safe or unsafe.

Where an official registry loader returns count data for the jurisdiction, RentSift shows aggregate nearby counts only. It does not display names or personal information, and it links to the official registry source when available.

The Rent Prices page lets you search tracked buildings, filter by jurisdiction, and sort by advertised price where current snapshots are available. Building pages show price history, trend charts, and jurisdiction medians.