Don't take the
wrong tenant.
The cost of one bad tenant is 4-6 months of unpaid rent, legal fees, and damage. The cost of a full screening is a fraction of that — and it takes 5 minutes.
5 min
Identity + credit
PIPEDA
Compliant by default
Newcomer
International pathway
Explicit tenant consent recorded server-side · Built in Calgary
You won't catch it in the interview.
SQRFT will, in five minutes.
Wrong tenant, six months late
A single bad tenant costs you 4-6 months of unpaid rent, legal fees, and possibly property damage. Gut feel doesn't catch it in time.
Calling references that don't pick up
Phone tag with previous landlords, voicemails left, weeks lost. By the time you hear back, the unit's been vacant for two months.
Newcomers locked out of credit reports
Equifax has no file on someone who just moved to Canada. Either you say no to a great tenant, or you guess. Neither is right.
A full picture, not a single number
Multi-source screening with a plain-language verdict. You always have the final call.
Credit score & history
Full credit report from Canadian credit bureaus. Score, payment history, debt-to-income ratio, open accounts — pulled with tenant consent.
Criminal background check
National criminal record search via CPIC database. Outstanding warrants, prior convictions — surfaced in plain language.
Identity verification
Government-issued ID check with facial match and liveness detection. Confirms the applicant is who they say they are.
Eviction record search
Provincial court records for past eviction filings — including resolved cases and outcomes. Alberta + national coverage.
Rental history & references
Previous landlord verifications, on-time payment records, length of tenancy. Auto-routed reference checks to past landlords.
Newcomer-friendly pathway
For tenants new to Canada — international credit reports and bank-statement income verification via Nova Credit and partner integrations.
PIPEDA-compliant consent
Tenant consent recorded server-side with timestamp + IP. Required before any check runs. Full disclosure of what's checked, who sees it.
Plain-language verdict
Every report ends with Approved / Review / Decline — derived from the full picture, not just a single number. Reasons explained.
Auto-routed to Lease
Approved? One click moves the applicant into a Digital Lease, pre-filled. Declined? Auto-sends a respectful templated rejection.
Stop guessing. Start knowing.
Without screening
Reference calls
Days lost to voicemail tag
Gut feel
Approve based on the interview
Equifax-only
Newcomers locked out, no signal
Manual records
No criminal or eviction visibility
Hope and pray
Find out 4 months in
Average bad-tenant cost: $8,000+
With SQRFT
5-minute report
Credit + criminal + identity + eviction
Plain-language verdict
Approve / Review / Decline with reasons
Newcomer pathway
International credit + bank statements
PIPEDA-compliant
Tenant consent recorded server-side
PDF in your vault
RTDRS-admissible if you ever need it
Avoid 95% of bad-tenant signals upfront.
Don't lease to a stranger.
Run a full screening before the keys go out. PIPEDA-compliant, 5 minutes.
Four steps. PIPEDA-compliant by default.
Tenant consent first. Reports run only with explicit, recorded agreement.
Request screening
Pick the report type and components. Send the request from the applicant's profile.
Tenant consents
Tenant receives a secure consent link. Confirms identity and authorizes the check — PIPEDA-compliant.
Reports run
Credit, criminal, identity, eviction — fetched from Canadian bureaus and government databases.
Decide with data
Approve / Review / Decline. Full report with reasons, downloadable as PDF, stored in your Document Vault.
Built for Canadian privacy law
Compliant by default — not by you remembering to be careful.
PIPEDA
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act — federal privacy law. Consent required, recorded, auditable.
PIPA (Alberta)
Provincial Personal Information Protection Act — Alberta requires separate explicit consent for criminal background checks. SQRFT collects both.
Encrypted Storage
All screening reports stored AES-256 encrypted. Only the requesting landlord (and the tenant on request) can ever access.
Frequently asked questions
Five minutes to know.
Months of peace of mind.
Tenant consent first. Multi-source report. Plain-language verdict. Run your first screening today.
PIPEDA-compliant · tenant consent always required · Built in Calgary