Rent Certificates
Rent certificates are the year-end receipts tenants use to claim rent at tax time. TenantBuddy generates them from the rent you've already recorded, one tenant at a time or all at once.
What a rent certificate is
A rent certificate (or rent receipt) is a year-end summary of the rent a tenant paid you over the year. Tenants use these to support provincial tax credits and benefits that take rent into account, so it's a document many of them will ask for each spring.
Because TenantBuddy already knows the rent on each lease, it can produce these certificates from your existing records rather than asking you to total anything by hand.
Generating certificates
You can produce rent certificates two ways:
- One at a time — generate a certificate for a single tenant when they request one.
- In bulk — generate certificates for all of your tenants at once at year-end, so you're not creating them one by one.
Each certificate can be downloaded as a PDF, ready to send to the tenant or hand off for their tax filing.
Producing a rent certificate
- Go to Rentals → Rent Certificates .
- Choose the tax year the certificate should cover.
- Generate a certificate for a single tenant, or run it in bulk for all tenants at once.
- Download the PDF and send it to the tenant.
Screenshot coming soon
The Rent Certificates screen in TenantBuddy with a tax year selected and the option to generate certificates individually or in bulk.