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Welcome to your anonymous residential rental transparency platform!

Thank you for being here.

Our mission is to bring greater transparency to Australia's residential rental market by providing residential tenants with a convenient platform of first-hand experiences—so prechecks can be conducted before signing a lease.

Currently most renters only have a rough five-minute glance and the suburb's reputation to decide if the property is suitable for a long-term commitment. Interested potential tenants know that probing too much during a viewing risks alienating the very managers who recommend tenants to the owners.

Leaving little opportunity to work out if the property will be quiet enough to sleep in, safe enough for children, appropriately managed, free from neighbouring noisy short-stay accommodations, have reliable internet, without early morning waste removal right outside the bedroom window—plus everything else you can't know unless you're told.

We also understand that a fast turnover of tenants is encouraged more than ever, so it's rarely in the property manager's or owner's financial interest to disclose issues upfront—and this can sometimes mean renters don't get the full picture before committing.

So we created this platform to help provide more information for renters.

A random-number username will be generated when you sign up, to avoid the possibility of any future blowback in the rental market. This number is only displayed on your profile and is the tag used in our back-end admin. Nowhere else will your RNU or your personal details be displayed.

We take your privacy seriously—we only collect what's needed to run the app, we never sell your data, and we don't track you across other sites or apps. For all the details check out our Privacy Policy.

Direct messaging between users is not a feature on Polished Turds, though you can leave comments and rate any of the content shared on the platform. We've designed the app this way to foster a safe online space for our users. Please note: we review content to help keep the platform fair and useful for everyone.

We're deeply grateful to all of you for sharing your real-world experiences. Thank you so much for providing information on the conditions of your previous rentals here in Oz.

Best wishes, and happy house hunting, everyone!