RapidRenter provides an intuitive way to help tenants and landlords interact, providing features such as automated payments, listings and property management, and integration with home automation tools.

• Username and password app-contained auth system
• ACL system to distinguish different user types on front-end and back-end with convenient helpers
• Stripe Connect implementation to facilitate tenants paying landlords directly, with the application taking a 1% cut. Uses Stripe PHP library and Guzzle to directly interface with Stripe
• Integration with home automation tools, inclduing a sample home automation feature (proof of concept for remotely opening and closing a door) via the web interface
• Video of automation proof-of-concept in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDKia11T-ik

• Filtering of listings search results and placement on maps, such as using Google Maps API
• Support for more home automation tools
• Further roles introduced, such as contractors/realtors and others that may have a relationship to properties and listings

This project was made using the Laravel PHP web framework. To run this project, a database and webserver will be needed. A Stripe account with test API keys is also necessary. Database credentials are entered in the .env file. A .env example file, .env.example, is included as a sample. After git clone:

composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

After DB and Stripe credentials setup in .env:

php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed

This project was made in 24hrs for HackED 2019 @ UofA. Project members:

• Mehrshad Sahebsara
• Ankush Sharma
• Sarthak Dhingra