Trekking
Walk the neighbourhood, look for signs, ask anyone standing outside a gate. The oldest method, and still the most common.
You only ever see the houses visible from the road.
RentVeed — find a house without walking for it
Two people in the same city, on the same day, looking for each other, and they cannot meet. A student walks street to street asking for a room; two streets away a landlady sits on an empty studio. RentVeed is how they find each other.
What RentVeed is
A mobile and web platform where landlords, landladies, caretakers and agents post the properties they have available, and where tenants and students browse those properties by video, filter them by city and price, and contact the owner directly.
It is deliberately narrow. It is not a payments company, not a lease-management system and not a property developer. It closes one gap: the people who have houses and the people who need them cannot see each other.
Video first
Free to browse
Free to post
English & French
Android & web
Why it has to exist
Finding a place to rent in Cameroon still works the way it did thirty years ago. Every existing route has the same structural flaw: the information is trapped.
Your network
Friends, family, church, colleagues. Excellent when it works, and free.
A newcomer has no network, exactly when they need one most.
Agents and WhatsApp groups
The professional layer. Agents genuinely solve an information problem: they walk, record, photograph and distribute.
Unsearchable, unverified, and it scrolls away in hours.
Classifieds and social media
Large audiences, nothing to pay to post.
Stale and duplicated. Nobody removes a house once it is rented.
What the old way costs a tenant
3–10
Days spent searching on foot
10,000
FCFA per viewing, paid whether you take it or not
1 month
Rent as agent commission if you do take it
40,000
FCFA spent after four viewings, before a key changes hands
How it works
01
A landlady posts
She records a short walk-through on her phone, adds the price, the location and her contact, and publishes. Posting is effectively free.
02
A tenant browses
He swipes the feed or searches by city, price and category, likes a few, and shares one into a family WhatsApp group for a second opinion.
03
He unlocks the contact
Only when he has decided on a specific property does he pay once to unlock the direct number. That unlock is his permanently.
04
They deal directly
He calls, arranges his own viewing and negotiates his own terms. RentVeed takes no cut of the rent or the caution.
What is in it
Everything listed here is built and working in version 1.0.
Finding a place
- A swipeable feed of property videos
- Search by city, price, category and location
- Five listings viewable with no account at all
- Liked listings saved for comparison
Built for this market
- One-tap Low-Data Mode swaps video for light cards
- Uploads compressed by up to 80% before sending
- English and French everywhere, switchable instantly
- Light and dark themes
For owners and caretakers
- Eight property categories, video and photos
- Live view and like counts on every listing
- Boost a listing to the top of the feed
- A caretaker number that stays hidden until unlocked
Trust and safety
- Public profiles with star ratings
- Any listing can be reported, anonymously
- Moderation review on reported content
- Verified badges for pass holders
What RentVeed will never do
Published so people can hold us to it.
- Never charge a fee to view a listing. Browsing stays free.
- Never hide a property behind a fee you cannot preview.
- Never sell personal data to advertisers or brokers.
- Never publish a poster's private number without their choice.
- Never take a cut of the rent or the caution.
- Never let a paid boost masquerade as an organic result.
Where it is today
Version 1.0 is complete and working on Android and the web, in both languages, with payments, moderation and the full listing system in place. It is deliberately held behind a pre-launch waitlist: opening a rental platform to tenants before it has properties would waste the one first impression it gets. Supply comes first.
Want a product like this built?
RentVeed went from a blank page to a finished platform with payments, moderation and two languages. If you are planning something of your own, tell us about it.
Free first conversation. No obligation, and you keep the notes.