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Apartments.com cannot block card payments. If that is the reason you would leave, Sproutly turns cards off with one switch for the whole account, and a tenant who pays you directly by Zelle, bill pay or check pays nothing. If it is not, stay, and use Sproutly for the one event, free: enter the tenancy in one form and the statement or notice comes out dated and cited.

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Nothing moves. Rent stays on Apartments.com. The tenancy you enter here exists to compute the notice.

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What each one charges, and what each one does about California paperwork

Apartments.com

Price to you
Free. Premium listings are priced by market.
What the tenant pays
The applicant pays $32 for screening, tenants pay 2.75% by card, bank transfer is free.
California notices and paperwork
None.
What its users say
  • Cozy users were moved over without a choice.
  • Card payments cannot be turned off, so a chargeback is always possible.

Vendor prices as published on Oct 11, 2026. Check the vendor's page for today's figure.

Sproutly

Price to you
$0 for rent tracking and reminders, leases, applications, maintenance and the portal, on every unit.
What the tenant pays
Nothing when they pay you directly by Zelle, bill-pay or check. Online card payments carry a processing fee set by the processor (estimated at 2.9% plus 30 cents, paid by the tenant). They are on by default and one switch turns them off. Online bank transfer through Sproutly is not offered right now.
California notices and paperwork
Pay-or-quit notice, rent increase notice and deposit statement forms, all free. Each one is drafted from the values you enter, with a place to record how it was served. You check the official source. General information, not legal advice.
City ordinances
Where to check links for Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.
Three things Apartments.com does not do

Where the notice earns its place

Cards off with one switch

Card payments are on by default at 2.9% + 30¢, paid by the tenant. One account-wide switch turns them off, and the card chargeback risk is gone.

Notices without moving anything

Rent stays on Apartments.com. The tenancy you enter here exists only to compute the notice.

Proof of service on file

Every notice carries a record of how and when you served it, so you have it on file.

Keep Apartments.com. Get the pay-or-quit notice here, free.

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