Photograph the unit, itemise what you're keeping, and send your tenant a deposit statement you can stand behind — with proof of when you sent it.
A tenant moves out. Three weeks later they're disputing the cleaning charge, and your evidence is forty photos scattered through a camera roll with nothing tying them to a date, a room, or a receipt.
Photos live on a phone, receipts in an inbox, the walkthrough notes on paper somewhere. None of it is together when you need it.
Most places give you a fixed window to return the deposit with an itemised statement. Miss it and you can lose the right to deduct anything at all.
Without dated photos and a clear breakdown, a disputed charge is a coin flip — over money you already spent putting the place right.
Built to be used on your phone, standing in an empty unit, in about ten minutes.
Walk the unit and shoot each area. Tag photos by room and Handback shows you what you've missed — kitchen, bathroom, floors, appliances.
Add each deduction with what it was for and what it cost. Attach the after photos and the vendor's invoice to the line item they justify.
Generate a statement with the photos embedded, save it as a PDF, and record the date you sent it. Handback emails you before the deadline if you stall.
Your name and address at the top, the deposit, every deduction with the date and its supporting documents, the refund owed — and the photographs, embedded, not attached separately and lost.
It prints to PDF from your browser. Email it, post it, or hand it over.
Set the return window that applies where your property is. Handback emails you before it runs out, and stops once you've sent the statement.
Who's paid, who owes, and partial payments — because tenants rarely pay in neat round amounts.
Attach a vendor's bill, PDF or photo, to the deduction it pays for.
Work orders with vendor and cost, feeding straight into your expense record.
Income and expenses per property, exportable as CSV for whoever does your taxes.
Export everything as JSON or CSV whenever you like. No lock-in.
Handback is new. Everything is free while we're getting started — you'll be told well before that changes.
Because a camera roll isn't evidence. Handback ties each photo to a specific tenancy, a room, and where relevant the exact deduction it justifies — with the date it was uploaded. When a tenant disputes a charge months later, you produce one document instead of scrolling through a year of photos trying to remember which flat was which.
Your account's data is only ever visible to you. Photos are never public — they're served only to your signed-in account, and can't be reached by guessing a URL. Everything travels over HTTPS, passwords are hashed, and the database is backed up automatically.
No, deliberately. Deposit limits and return deadlines vary by state and city and change often, so Handback doesn't guess at them — you enter the limit and deadline that apply to you, and it tracks against your numbers. It's a record-keeping tool, not legal advice.
It doesn't collect rent, screen tenants, or file your taxes. It doesn't handle depreciation or produce a finished tax return — the year-end summary is what you recorded, for your accountant to build on. It's built to do the move-out properly, not to be everything.
Yes, any time. A one-click JSON backup of everything, plus CSV export of income and expenses. No export fee and no waiting.
Ten minutes with your phone now is worth more than any argument later. Free for your first property.
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