About RentSafeTO.com
Hey there,
Look, I'm not going to sugarcoat why this website exists.
You deserve to know the truth about where you're about to live. Not the truth from staged photos and glossy brochures—the actual truth, pulled straight from official City of Toronto inspection records.
Every year, thousands of Toronto renters search for apartments armed with nothing but gut feeling and a landlord's promises. They risk signing leases on buildings with chronic pest problems, failing fire safety systems, and mountains of unresolved violations.
Not because they don't care. Because the information is buried in city databases that weren't designed for regular people to easily use.
Let's fix that.
Say hello to RentSafeTO.com
RentSafeTO.com takes the official building evaluation data from the City of Toronto's RentSafeTO program, and makes it accessible to you.
No jargon. No bureaucratic maze. Just clear, honest information about the building you're considering before you sign a lease.
RentSafeTO.com covers 3,500+ evaluated buildings across 25 Toronto wards, with a city-wide average safety score of 88 out of 100. Every score, every rating, every inspection result comes straight from official City of Toronto sources.
Huge props to the City of Toronto for making this possible. The city's RentSafeTO program sends licensed evaluators to inspect apartment buildings (3+ storeys, 10+ rental units) every 2-3 years. They check everything—building condition, safety systems, maintenance practices, pest control, the works.
Even better? Toronto makes all this data freely available through Open Toronto, their Open Data Portal, which is honestly one of the best municipal open data initiatives in Canada. They're committed to transparency and making government data accessible to everyone, and we're grateful they do.
We pull the data straight from their portal and don't change a thing. No modified scores, no omitted buildings, no altered results. What you see here is exactly what the city recorded—we just organize it so it's searchable, readable, and actually useful.
Our promise
This website is completely free and always will be.
No paywalls. No account creation. No hidden fees. The City of Toronto makes this data public, and we're committed to keeping it accessible to everyone who needs it.
If you have questions, feedback, or just want to say hello, reach out at [email protected] or on LinkedIn.
Here's to finding a place that's not just beautiful in the photos, but safe, well-maintained, and worthy of being called home.
Talk soon,
Amrit Sharma
Creator of RentSafeTO.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amritsharma