TurboTenant manages listings, applications, tenant screening, online rent collection, and maintenance. RentCeiling is the rent-control specialist that computes the per-jurisdiction legal-max rent increase, generates the statutorily-compliant tenant notice, and logs every calculation for a future Rent Board hearing or small-claims defense. The two tools live side by side — pull payments and ledgers from one, pull the legal cap and the signed notice from the other.
The honest framing
If you're searching for a TurboTenant alternative because you want a different way to list a vacancy, screen an applicant, run an ACH payment, or post a maintenance ticket, RentCeiling is not the answer. We don't do any of that. TurboTenant does it well; so do Avail, Hemlane, RentRedi, and Innago. Pick whichever PM tool fits your workflow.
If you're searching for a TurboTenant alternative because your current PM tool doesn't tell you what the legal max rent increase is for your unit this year, and won't generate the right notice with the right citations and the right effective date, then this page is for you. That's a different job. The PM tool is your operating system; RentCeiling is the compliance specialist you bolt on for the one workflow that, done wrong, costs you treble damages plus attorney fees under California Civil Code §1947.12(h)(2) — or up to $7,500 per violation under Washington State RCW 59.18.730.
What lives where
A pragmatic division of labor for a small portfolio in a rent-controlled jurisdiction.
A worked example
Three-unit Berkeley triplex, two units covered, one unit Costa-Hawkins exempt.
Suppose you own a three-unit building in Berkeley, California. Two of the units are covered by Berkeley's Rent Stabilization Ordinance (multi-unit, first certificate of occupancy before February 1, 1995). The third unit is a detached cottage that qualifies as a single-family rental — and the current tenant moved in March 2024, so under Costa-Hawkins (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1954.50–1954.535) and BMC §13.76.080(A)(3) the SFR exemption applies because the tenancy commenced after January 1, 1996.
At lease renewal in May 2026, you want to raise rent on all three units. TurboTenant collects the existing rent and shows you each unit's payment history; it has no opinion on what the legal max is for any of the three. That's where the math has to happen somewhere else.
RentCeiling's Berkeley calculator tells you the two covered units cap out at 1.0% for CY 2026 (Berkeley Rent Board Regulation 1271, 65% × CPI-U San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward MSA July 2024 to June 2025), and walks you through the four-condition AGA-denial gate at BMC §13.76.110(B)(2) — Rent Board registration current, no outstanding Rent Board orders, Cal. Civ. Code §1941.1 habitability satisfied, BMC §13.76.080 5%-deposit-interest paid. The Costa-Hawkins exempt cottage falls under California AB 1482 at 8.8%, computed via the California calculator. RentCeiling generates three notices: two Berkeley notices with the BMC citation and the 1.0% math, one California notice with the AB 1482 citation and the 8.8% math. Each notice computes its effective date from Cal. Civ. Code §827(b)'s delta-driven rule (30 days for a delta under 10%, 90 days for 10% or more). You hand the PDFs to your tenants or upload them to TurboTenant's document store and hand-deliver per your service-of-process preference.
The compliance log captures the CPI source, the formula, the gate state, the notice date, and the effective date. Six months later, when one tenant disputes the increase and Berkeley's Rent Board asks for the worksheet, you produce it from the log. The cost of that worksheet not existing is well-documented in BMC §13.76.150 — rollback, refund, treble damages, attorney fees.
Pricing
$0
Per-jurisdiction calculator on every supported jurisdiction page. Always free. No account required.
$9 / notice
One statutorily-compliant notice PDF with citation, worksheet, effective-date math, and tenant-acknowledgment line.
$19 / month
Unlimited notices across multiple units and jurisdictions, plus the multi-unit compliance log and CPI-refresh alerts.
Common questions
No. TurboTenant handles listings, applications, tenant screening, online rent collection, lease templates, and maintenance requests — none of which RentCeiling does. RentCeiling is the rent-control specialist that fills the one job a generalist property-management tool does not do: compute the per-jurisdiction legal-maximum rent increase under the controlling local statute, generate the statutorily-compliant tenant notice, and log every calculation with a citation trail you can produce in a Rent Board hearing or a small-claims court. The two tools live side by side. Pull rent payments and ledgers from TurboTenant; pull the legal-max cap and the signed notice PDF from RentCeiling.
Three reasons. First, the rules change every year — California AB 1482 ties to a CPI-U regional reading that prints in May, San Francisco resets each March 1 from a different CPI window, Berkeley resets each January 1 at 65% of yet another CPI window, Oregon's SB 611 caps at the lesser of 10% or 7%+CPI, and the underlying ordinances themselves get amended. Maintaining ten jurisdictions of statutory math accurately is a full-time job; a property-management tool with a national footprint optimizes for the 80% feature surface, not the long tail. Second, getting the math wrong is expensive — California Civil Code §1947.12(h)(2) permits treble damages plus attorney fees, Washington State HB 1217 imposes up to $7,500 per violation under RCW 59.18.730, and Saint Paul Chapter 193A allows revocation of the rental license. A horizontal PM vendor isn't going to underwrite that liability across 50 states. Third, the deliverable isn't a number, it's a document — the statutory notice has to cite the controlling law, present the math the way the Rent Board expects to see it, and reach the tenant within a jurisdiction-specific notice window (Cal. Civ. Code §827(b) requires 30 days for a delta under 10% and 90 days for 10% or more, NYC RSL is its own beast, DC has its own template). That's a publishing problem, not a database row.
Ten today, with a published rule-set at /rules/index.json. California (AB 1482 statewide, 8.8% for 2026), Oregon (SB 611, 9.5% for 2026), Los Angeles RSO (3% rolling / 2.8% projected RSO year 2026-27), San Francisco (Rent Ordinance 1.6% for Rent Year 2026-27 / 1.4% for RY 2025-26 with §4.12 banking), Berkeley (1.0% CY 2026 AGA / 1.6% CY 2025 AGA with §13.76.110(B)(2) AGA-denial gate), New York City (RSL, RGB Order #57 — 2.75% for 1-year leases, 5.25% for 2-year leases), Washington DC (Rental Housing Act, 4.1% standard / 2.1% elderly-disabled), Saint Paul (Chapter 193A, 3% standard / 8% self-cert / 15% petition), Montgomery County MD (Bill 15-23, 5.8% VRGA under a 6% hard ceiling), and Washington State (HB 1217, 9.683% residential / 5% manufactured under a 10% ceiling). Each jurisdiction has its own landing page with the controlling statute, the formula, the notice period, the overcharge remedy, and the carve-outs (Costa-Hawkins for SF and Berkeley, building-age cutoffs for SF/Berkeley/MD/WA, owner-natural-person carve-outs for AB 1482 single-family rentals).
Yes — that's the most common workflow. RentCeiling's free tier gives you the legal-max calculator on every supported jurisdiction page; the $9 one-time per-notice tier produces the statutorily-compliant tenant notice PDF (with the controlling statute citation, the math worksheet showing how the cap was derived, the effective date computed against the jurisdiction's notice-period rule, and a tenant-acknowledgment line), which you can then attach to the lease in TurboTenant or hand-deliver per your service-of-process preference. The $19/month Pro tier adds the multi-unit compliance log — every calculation timestamped, every notice archived, every CPI refresh that affected your portfolio recorded — for landlords with units in more than one jurisdiction or a portfolio big enough that a tenant dispute could escalate.
Pick a jurisdiction; the math runs in the page. No account, no card.