As a mover, you get a front-row seat to the end of every lease. You see which units are ready to flip in a day and which ones take weeks of repair. You watch tenants celebrate getting their full deposit back — or argue over surprise deductions they never saw coming.
After hundreds of move-outs, the pattern was obvious. The tenants who got most of their deposit back were the same ones who left the place clean, reported issues early, and treated the property like it was theirs. Those units turned around fast. The ones with messy disputes, missing documentation, and finger-pointing? They had a slower turnaround for the next tenant.
That's why I started Oscar. I believe deposit returns are the single best signal of a great tenant — and when management tracks them properly, everybody wins. Faster turnaround. Happier tenants. Less guesswork about who you're handing keys to next.