Rently Smart Home: Features, Pricing, Integrations & AI Visibility

Rently Smart Home is the smart-apartment line from Rently, sold to single-family rental, multifamily, build-to-rent and student housing operators. The hub is the Smart Hub 4 or Smart Hub Pro, a Z-Wave hub with the thermostat built in, and the lock is Rently’s own Smart Bolt Elite. Around them sit leak sensors, smoke and CO detectors, Honeywell-compatible thermostats, outlets and switches, cameras and an access panel with intercom, with a branded resident app for unit control and maintenance requests. The page leads with stop paying for empty units and catch problems before they become disasters, and its RangeWater case study reports a 1.2-year ROI, a 60% budget reduction and 20% energy savings. Its rent case is explicit: residents pay a $50 to $100 monthly premium, and the vendor puts the NOI lift potential at $80 per month per unit. It is one of three vendors in the smart home for multifamily category that tag single-family rental. The facts panel below is rendered from our vendor database with a source URL and verification date on each entry.

Who it fits and who it does not

The database tags single-family rental, institutional multifamily and student housing, and the vendor adds build-to-rent. The buyer is an operator that runs both scattered homes and communities and wants one platform and one resident app across them, on a PMS from the five Rently names. The integrated thermostat hub keeps the per-unit hardware to one box plus the lock, which is the argument for a rehab or a build-to-rent phase where every wall box counts.

It does not tag small multifamily. A ten-unit owner should read the category guide first, since every vendor here sells by the community, and an operator whose problem is the lobby intercom rather than the unit is in the access control category.

Pricing

Pricing is not published. Ask for the per-unit hardware figure with the hub and the Smart Bolt Elite together, the per-unit monthly software figure, the installation cost per unit for a scattered home against a garden unit, the minimum commitment and who owns the hardware at the end. The $50 to $100 premium and the $80 per month NOI lift are vendor figures. Ask for the premium achieved at RangeWater by unit type, and ask what the 60% budget reduction was measured against, because a budget line is not an energy bill.

Integrations

The database lists Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, Rent Manager and ResMan, sourced from the smart home page. Rently is the only record in the category to list Rent Manager in the database, which makes it the first call for an operator on that system; PointCentral’s homepage adds Rent Manager too, so ask both. The Rent Manager integrations page and the Entrata integrations page list the other vendors on each platform. Ask for the move-out demonstrated in your PMS: the lock code changing, the thermostat setting back and the resident app deprovisioning without a site visit.

For a buyer on RealPage or Entrata, the alternative is the smart-building module the PMS sells itself. Ask what it covers before adding a second contract.

Limitations and questions to ask

Start with what the hub connects over. The page describes a Z-Wave hub, which covers the devices inside the unit; ask what carries the hub back to the platform, the property’s Wi-Fi, the resident’s Wi-Fi or a cellular line, and what it costs. In a scattered home there is no hallway access point, so the answer decides whether the platform works between residents. Ask what the lock does when that link is down; no fetched page in the category states lock behavior in that case.

Then the lock. The Smart Bolt Elite is Rently’s own, so ask whether the hub controls other Z-Wave locks, what it costs to bring a lock brand you already own, and what the battery life is at the door.

Then the turn. The research names device resets and reconfiguration every lease cycle as the recurring cost. Ask what the reset checklist is for a scattered home where no site team walks the unit, and whether the resident app’s maintenance requests land in the PMS work-order screen or in a separate queue.

Alternatives

The vendor list for the smart home category compares all seven vendors with the same facts. SmartRent also runs Z-Wave hubs, on managed Wi-Fi with cellular backup, and tags single-family rental alongside multifamily and student housing. PointCentral is the cellular-hub platform built for the same scattered-site case and is the other vendor tagging single-family rental in the category.

AI visibility

The AI Shortlist Index will measure smart home platforms when a prompt set for the category is approved, and the Rently Smart Home row will appear here from that edition on.