What does Rent Butter do?

Rent Butter is a tenant-screening and verification platform for rental housing. Its product description lists screening reports and income-verification options such as a bank connection, payroll records or uploaded documents. Think of the result as evidence for a leasing team to review, not a guarantee about whether an applicant will pay rent.

What can a verification report clarify?

Suppose an applicant is paid every two weeks and also transferred money between their own accounts. Adding every deposit together would overstate earnings. The reviewer needs to distinguish wages from transfers, confirm which months the report covers and follow the property’s consistently applied screening policy. An applicant who spots the wrong employer or an account that is not theirs needs a way to raise that error.

Who is responsible for the decision?

The housing provider owns its decision; buying screening software does not outsource that responsibility. In the U.S., the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s tenant-screening guidance explains when using a consumer report triggers an adverse-action notice. This can include requiring a higher deposit or a co-signer, not just denying an application. Follow applicable fair-housing and local rules as well, and keep applicant information limited to the people who need it. Screening happens before the monthly rent-collection workflow handled by tools such as ClickPay.