Welcome to Rentfolio Help Center

Get oriented fast — find the guides you need to manage properties, tenants, rent, and maintenance all in one place.

Rentfolio helps you run your rental portfolio end-to-end — from listing vacant units and screening applicants to collecting rent and dispatching maintenance vendors. Everything you need to get the most out of Rentfolio is right here.

Whether you're setting up for the first time or looking for a specific workflow, the guides below will get you where you need to go.

Start here

New to Rentfolio? Add your first property to give leases, listings, and rent collection a home. Then publish your vacancy and start screening applicants right away.

Add your first property

Set up a building with its units so leases and rent collection have somewhere to live.

Publish a vacancy listing

List a vacant unit and syndicate it to the major rental portals in one publish.

Screen a tenant application

Run credit, criminal, and eviction checks on an applicant in one click.

Leases & rent collection

Once you have a tenant lined up, create a lease and send it for e-signature in minutes. Set up online rent collection so payments arrive automatically — and handle anything that falls through the cracks without leaving Rentfolio.

Create a new lease

Draft a lease, set the rent and term, and send it for e-signature.

Set up online rent collection

Let tenants pay by card, ACH, or Apple Pay — deposited straight to your account.

Record a manual rent payment

Log a check or cash payment so the tenant ledger stays accurate.

Handle a late payment

Apply the late fee and send a reminder without leaving the overdue list.

Renew an expiring lease

Send a renewal offer before a lease ends — with the new term and rent pre-filled.

Maintenance & owners

Keep tenants happy and owners informed. Log maintenance requests, assign the right vendor, and send owner statements — all without switching tools.

Log a maintenance request

Turn a tenant call into a tracked work order with priority and photos.

Assign a vendor to a work order

Dispatch a plumber or electrician and keep the tenant informed automatically.

Generate an owner statement

Send owners a monthly statement of income, expenses, and their payout.

What's next

The best place to begin is adding your first property — everything else in Rentfolio builds from there. If you ever get stuck, use the search bar at the top to find any guide in seconds.

Add your first property

Set up a building with its units so leases and rent collection have somewhere to live.