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What this is

A free, anonymous review site for renters in Manhattan south of Harlem. Tenants rate the building they lived in and the company that managed it; the reviews sit next to the City’s own inspection and complaint record for the same address, so a reader can see both what the inspectors found and what living there was actually like.

No account is required to read or to write. Reviews carry no name, no email, and no stored IP address — see About for how that works.

Where the data comes from

Building records, ownership, open violations and complaint history come from New York City open data: HPD registrations and violations, 311 service requests, and the Department of City Planning’s PLUTO file. All of it is refreshed weekly and every figure on the site carries the date it was last checked.

Reviews are written by tenants and are the only thing here we did not get from the City. There are 3 of them today — this is a new site, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

The rankings

Standing monthly rankings of management companies by the City’s records — open hazardous violations per apartment, and how long 311 complaints take to close. The current edition is August 2026, and every edition has a permanent URL that keeps showing the figures it was published with, so a citation does not rot.

The methodology page states the sources, the sample thresholds, and — more usefully for a reporter — what these numbers cannot support. Chief among them: open violations carry no time decay, so a company can be carrying a predecessor’s record, and HPD only inspects where somebody complained.

Who runs it

Rate My Landlord is run independently and is not affiliated with any landlord, management company, tenant organisation, or government agency. The operator publishes anonymously — this site accuses named companies of specific failures, and the people who run those companies are also landlords.

There is no advertising, nothing is sponsored, no company can pay to have a review or a ranking removed, and there is no cross-site tracking of any kind. If any of that ever changes it will be stated here first.

Getting in touch

eli@ratemylandlordnyc.com reaches a person. We can talk through the methodology, confirm a figure before you publish, or pull a specific cut of the data if it would help.

There is also an RSS feed of new reviews.