For landlords in England who manage their own lets
Memory isn’t evidence.
selfmanaged keeps a dated record of each tenancy as it happens: the rent you recorded, the notices you served, the certificates you gave, the repairs you were told about, and what was said. Each time you open it, Today shows what needs your answer, with the date and the rule behind it.
Free for one property. Every new account starts with 30 days of Premium features, free, with no card. Paid plans (Standard £12 and Premium £29 a month, including VAT) aren’t on sale yet, so when the trial ends your account moves to Free. Nothing you’ve recorded is deleted.
Today, in the sample
Rent · needs your answer
Has Hannah’s rent landed?
£1,150 due 22 Sep 2026 · 14 Foxglove Way
Deposit · day 27 of 30
Hannah’s deposit: protect by Sat 26 Sep
Not yet recorded: protection with a scheme and prescribed information served.
Pet request · 6 days left
Priya’s pet request: answer in writing by Tue 29 Sep
Housing Act 1988 s16A, inserted by the Renters’ Rights Act 2025.
Rent increase · started, not applied
Marcus’s rent: £950 → £995 from Sat 19 Sep
Notice served 10 Jul 2026 · Flat 2, Sandy Lane
From the sample, as Today shows it on 23 September 2026. The people and homes are made up.
Open it, and see what needs you
Today is the first thing you see. It lists what needs your answer and the clocks that are running: rent to confirm, a deposit’s 30 days, a certificate coming due, a pet request to answer, a rent increase starting, a repair with nothing recorded for a while, and, once receiving email is switched on, new email from a tenant.
selfmanaged doesn’t send reminders, emails or texts about your dates. It shows what’s due when you open it.
What it keeps track of
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Rent
On each rent date it asks whether the rent landed: yes, or not yet. It keeps the last twelve rent dates with the day each arrived, and shows what’s outstanding in months of rent.
We never hold your rent. It goes from your tenant to you, as it does now.
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Rent increases under section 13
Record a notice you’ve served and the app checks its start date against the earliest the rules allow. When it starts, you put the new rent in place, or record what you agreed or what a tribunal decided. It doesn’t write the notice for you.
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Deposits
The 30 days you have to protect a deposit and give the prescribed information, counted from the day you received it, and whether the amount is within the Tenant Fees Act cap.
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Certificates
Gas safety records, electrical reports (EICRs) and EPCs: when each was done, when the next is due, and whether you’ve recorded giving a copy to the current tenant.
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Pet requests
When a tenant asks to keep a pet, the date you must answer in writing by: 28 days after the request, or later where the law allows.
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Repairs
Log a repair when you’re told about it, with photos. Book it, mark it done and close it. Each step is dated.
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An evidence file for each tenancy
The app adds an entry whenever rent is answered, a notice is recorded, a certificate is given, a pet request moves on or a repair moves on, and you add conversations. Nothing in it can be edited or deleted in the app: a correction is a new entry. It prints, or saves as a PDF, with a fingerprint of its contents.
It’s your record of what happened, not proof: a court decides what evidence shows.
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Your own email address Not switched on yet
Every account gets an address at selfmanaged.co.uk to give to your tenants. An email from a tenant’s own address goes into that tenancy’s evidence file when the receiving mail server confirms it came from them; you can file any other yourself. Nothing is ever sent from it.
Receiving email isn’t switched on yet: until it is, email sent to the address doesn’t reach selfmanaged, so don’t give it to your tenants yet. The Account screen says so while it’s off.
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Certificate reading Premium Not switched on yet
Forward a gas safety record, EICR or EPC to your address and the dates update. It needs receiving email, which isn’t switched on yet, so it doesn’t work yet.
Nothing is read until you turn certificate reading on in Account. Then the attachment, never the words of the email, is sent to Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, to read. Check the dates: you can correct or undo them. There’s a daily limit: during the trial, 3 documents a day, and reading may stop for the rest of the day if many trial accounts have used it.
Coming, not built yet
None of these is available today, and we don’t promise a date.
Calls Coming
A phone number of your own, for your tenants to call.
Bank payment alerts Coming
Forward the payment alerts your bank emails you, to match rent as it arrives.
Tax records Coming
Records kept the way Making Tax Digital needs them.
What it isn’t
Not legal advice
It gives information: the dates, and the rules it relies on with when they were checked. You stay responsible for your duties as a landlord. If you’re unsure, ask a solicitor or another qualified adviser.
Not for Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland
The dates and rules it uses are the law in England.
Not an agent
We never hold your rent or your deposit. selfmanaged is separate from the lettings agency Lettings Management Ltd runs, and nothing you record is shared with it.
Try it with your own lets
Every new account starts with a 30-day free trial with Premium features. We don’t ask for payment details, and nothing is charged. During the trial, certificate reading (once it’s switched on) is limited to 3 documents a day. See the plans.