I’m Unai Sampedro, and I rent the place I live in. Safe Rental Guide is the site I wanted to find every time I had a question about renting and ended up reading ten pages that all said the same thing without showing where it came from.
Why a renter is writing this
Renting is a subject I follow closely because I live it and because I find it interesting: how rents are set, what a lease can and can’t ask of you, where deposits go, how scams work.
I live in Spain and write about renting in the United States, where the official data is unusually open: federal agencies publish their numbers, county by county and ZIP code by ZIP code, for anyone to download. Very few people do. That gap is what this site is for.
What I’m not
I’m not a lawyer, a licensed insurance agent or a housing counselor, and nothing here is legal advice. I’d rather say that up front than let you assume otherwise. If you have a dispute with a landlord, a legal aid organization or your state’s tenant resources are where to go; the Disclaimer explains the limits in full.
How the site works
Since the authority isn’t in who writes, it has to be in what’s written and whether you can check it. So the rules are simple:
- Every figure links to the exact page it comes from, not to an agency’s home page.
- When a number is our own count, built from a public data file, the article says so and explains how it was counted. The agency published the data; the conclusion is ours.
- Each article ends with its sources and the date they were last checked.
- Nobody pays to be mentioned. No commissions from landlords, insurers or listing sites.
Found a mistake?
Tell me which article and which sentence through the Contact page or at contact@saferentalguide.com. I check it against the source and fix it if it’s wrong.