Hearth is the trading name of Kamsi Anienwelu, sole proprietor, Ithaca, New York — the registered brand behind these messages.
This page documents how tenants and lease guarantors consent to receive text messages from Hearth, and the exact disclosure landlords are required to present when they collect a phone number.
Hearth does not enroll anyone on its own. A landlord enrolls the tenants and guarantors of a property they manage, using the phone number that person provided in writing on their lease or rental application.
Landlords using Hearth are required to include the disclosure below on the lease or rental application, adjacent to the field where the phone number is collected. A phone number collected without this disclosure is not valid consent, and that number must not be enrolled.
This is the exact text landlords must present at the point the number is collected:
The same disclosure is presented to a lease guarantor when their number is collected.
Before any other message is sent, every enrolled person receives a message identifying the property, explaining what the number is for, and stating how to opt out:
If that person replies STOP, the opt-out is recorded immediately and no further automated message is sent to that number by any part of the service.
Every landlord accepts, as a condition of using Hearth, that they have presented the disclosure above, that each number was provided by the person it belongs to, and that the person expects communication about their tenancy. This is set out in section 3 of our Terms of Service.
Reply STOP to any Hearth message. Reply HELP for assistance, or email ka@hearthassist.com.
We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data or personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.