How to rent out your home on Apegato
List for free, choose from renters who are already checked, and sign the Ontario Standard Lease online. You pay 6% only when your home is booked.
Step by step
Seven steps from your first listing to a paid tenancy. Nothing to pay until a renter has signed.
- Step 1Free to list
List your home
Add the address, photos, what's included, the monthly rent, the shortest and longest stay you'll accept, and when it's available. You can save and come back any time.
- Step 2Reviewed by our team
Get verified
Confirm your ID, and upload proof you own the home (a property tax bill or condo fee statement) or the owner's permission to rent it. Our team reviews every listing before it goes live. Want the Verified property badge? We also check the land registry and visit the home.
- Step 3Before your first booking
Set up payouts
Add the bank account where rent should arrive, through our payments partner Stripe. It takes a few minutes and is needed before you can accept a renter.
- Step 4Answer within 24 hours
Choose your renter
Renters apply with their checks already done: ID, income and, when required, credit, plus a search of published Landlord and Tenant Board orders. You see their income compared with your rent and what they wrote about themselves, then accept or decline.
- Step 5The renter signs first
Sign the lease
When you accept, you confirm the lease details on the Ontario Standard Lease (most are filled in from your listing). The renter signs first, then you countersign online within 24 hours.
- Step 6Paid after move-in
Get paid
When you countersign, the renter pays the first month's rent and a last month's rent deposit. We hold it until the day after move-in, then send it to you less our 6% fee. After that, rent is collected automatically every month and paid out to you.
- Step 7
Host with less admin
Condition reports with photos at move-in and move-out, messages with your renter, receipts and payouts in one place. When the renter gives 60 days' notice, their final month is paid from the deposit.
What it costs
No listing fees and no subscription. We earn when you do.
Renters you can trust to pay. The first payment is taken when the lease is signed, so a booking is real before the keys change hands.
- Listing your home
- Free
- Service fee
- 6% of the rent, plus HST, only when booked
- How it's paid
- Taken from each payout, nothing to invoice
- Renter checks and the lease
- Included
- Verified property badge
- Optional: land registry check and a visit
Questions landlords ask
Something else? Ask our team.
When do I get my money?
The first payment (first month and last month's deposit) is sent the day after the renter moves in. After that, each month's rent is paid out once it's collected. Your payouts page shows what's coming and when.
Why is the first payment held until move-in?
It's our promise to renters: they pay when the lease is signed, and you're paid once they're in. It protects both of you if a move-in falls through, and it's why renters trust booking a home they haven't seen in person.
What if a rent payment fails?
We retry it automatically and tell both of you each time. If rent stays unpaid, the usual Ontario rules apply: ending a tenancy for unpaid rent goes through the Landlord and Tenant Board.
Can I pick who rents my home?
Yes, you accept or decline each request. Decisions must follow the Ontario Human Rights Code: judge applicants on their checks and fit, never on things like race, family status, disability or receiving public assistance.
Which homes can I list?
Furnished homes in Ontario that you own or have the owner's permission to rent, for stays from one month. Apegato uses the Ontario Standard Lease, so the Residential Tenancies Act applies as usual.