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How tenants use messages and shared documents

Quick answer

Use Messages for focused rental communication and Documents for files made available to your tenant relationship. Verify the recipient or file context before replying, downloading, or acting.

Open Messages

Choose Messages to review landlord conversations connected to your tenant account.

Tenant Messages page with a safe sample landlord conversation.

Send a focused landlord message

Open the relevant thread, explain the rental issue or question clearly, and send it. Keep credentials, access codes, and unnecessary sensitive information out of ordinary messages.

Tenant Messages workspace with a focused landlord conversation.

Follow the existing conversation

Return to the same thread for replies so the context stays together. Use the dedicated maintenance workflow for repair requests that need status tracking.

Tenant Messages thread showing the existing conversation context.

Open shared Documents

Open the tenant document area from a document or maintenance workflow to review files connected to your rental relationship.

Tenant Documents page with safe sample rental files.

Verify before downloading or acting

Check the file name, property, date, and sender context. Ask the landlord through a trusted channel if a document is unexpected or appears to belong to someone else.

Tenant Documents page showing the file context to verify before acting.

Common questions

Answers at a glance

Where can a tenant message a landlord?Open Messages in the tenant portal and continue the relevant landlord conversation.
Where can a tenant find shared rental documents?Open Documents in the tenant portal to see files made available to that rental relationship.