Say you spent one weekend at a friend’s place in a nice, quiet part of town. The power barely blinked. The Wi-Fi held up through a whole movie night.
You leave impressed, and a few days later you’re on Arandmi, tempted to leave that neighborhood a glowing five-star review.
Or maybe it’s simpler than that. You own a small apartment building, and you’d love for its street to rank a little higher than it deserves.
A few generous reviews here and there, written by “residents” who are really just you and your cousins, could nudge the numbers in your favor.
Both of these are understandable impulses. Neither of them should be allowed to shape a score that thousands of other people might use to decide where to sign a lease.
That is the entire reason Arandmi limits ratings to people actually living the experience they’re describing, not people passing through or people with something to gain.
The checkbox that does the real work
Arandmi doesn’t ask for a utility bill, a tenancy agreement, or a photo of your front door. There’s no address verification step buried in the form.
Instead, right before you submit your review, you’re asked to check one box, and its wording is deliberately plain: “This review is based on my own experience.”
That single line is doing more than it looks like. It’s the point where the platform asks you, directly, to stand behind what you just wrote, tying your star ratings and written review to a real, lived claim rather than an impression borrowed from someone else’s weekend.
This is also why the review form skips proof-of-address entirely. Verifying every resident’s address at scale would slow things down and likely discourage honest people from bothering.
Arandmi bets on something simpler: ask people to tell the truth, and back it up with moderation for the cases where someone doesn’t.
Why this actually matters for the numbers
Arandmi’s whole reason for existing is that it turns individual, lived experience into an average people can actually trust, an idea covered in more depth in the scoring system this rule protects.
Power and internet scores are only useful if the reviews behind them come from people who woke up in that area, cooked dinner through a blackout there, or tried to hold a video call on that estate’s connection.
If people could rate areas they only visited, or areas they have a financial stake in, the averages would stop measuring anything real.
A neighborhood could look great because a landlord’s friends said so, or look worse because a rival building’s tenants piled on.
Someone using Arandmi to decide between two areas before moving needs the score to reflect what residents actually deal with day to day.
Take an area like Woji. Its score means something specific: it’s built from people who live there, reporting the same things about the same streets, over time.
That specificity is the whole product. Lose it, and Arandmi is just another set of numbers nobody has a reason to believe.
Moderation catches what the honor system misses
Self-declaration isn’t the only safeguard. Every review still passes through moderation, and Arandmi removes anything that names specific individuals, contains abuse, or reads as if it came from someone with an agenda rather than a genuine resident describing their own street.
A review that sounds like a press release, or one clearly written to settle a score, gets pulled.
That moderation layer is one of several ways Arandmi keeps reviews honest, and it works alongside the consent checkbox rather than instead of it. The checkbox asks for honesty up front.
Moderation checks the results afterward. Between the two, the system leans on trust first and enforcement second, which keeps the platform feeling like real people talking, not a form to be gamed.
If you’ve actually lived through your area’s power cuts and dodgy Wi-Fi days, that experience is exactly what the platform is built to capture.
You can rate your own area in a few minutes, and the honest version of your street is worth more to the next person house-hunting than any polished guess ever could be.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why doesn’t Arandmi ask for proof of address before accepting a review?
Verifying every reviewer’s address would slow submissions down and discourage genuine residents from bothering.
Instead, Arandmi relies on the “This review is based on my own experience” consent checkbox as an honest, upfront declaration, backed up by moderation that removes reviews that look fake, abusive, or clearly not from a real resident.
Can I rate an area I used to live in but moved away from?
The platform facts don’t set a time limit on this, only that the consent checkbox requires the review to be based on your own experience.
What matters is that you’re genuinely describing power and internet conditions you personally lived through, with specifics like providers and hours, rather than a guess about how things are now.
What happens if someone submits a fake or promotional review anyway?
Arandmi’s moderation removes reviews that name specific individuals, contain abuse, or read as if they came from an agent rather than a genuine resident, meaning fake or promotional content is filtered out rather than left to sit in an area’s average and quietly distort it.