Move-in and move-out photos with date, time and location
When a tenancy starts and when it ends, photos are what's left to compare the property. Lymark writes the server-recorded time, the address and an issue code into every photo, and paints a verification strip into the image that anyone can check later, including the copy that arrived by message, email or social media.
When the deposit turns into an argument
The move-in inspection records how the property was handed over; the move-out inspection, how it came back. If the tenant and the landlord, or the property manager, disagree about a scratch on the floor, a stain on the wall or a cracked window, the photos from both moments decide how much of the deposit comes back.
That's where an ordinary photo falls short. Its date comes from the phone's clock, which anyone can change, and it tends to get lost when the image is forwarded. One question, “wasn't this photo taken on another day?”, is enough to stall the conversation, and whoever received the photos has nothing to check beyond the sender's word.
How Lymark solves it
- Take the photos with Lymark, room by room. The address comes from the device at the moment of capture, and you can adjust it before saving.
- The stamp writes the date, the time, the address and an issue code into the image itself. When the photo is checked, the time that counts is the issuance time, recorded by Lymark's server, not the phone's clock.
- A verification strip, invisible to the naked eye, is painted along the longer edge of the photo. It survives recompression and the loss of metadata, so a copy sent by message, email or social media can still be checked.
- Whoever receives the photo, whether landlord, property manager or tenant, drops it into lymark.app/verificar. No account is needed, and the check runs in the checker's own browser: the image is never uploaded.
Strip enlarged here: in the real photo, the eye cannot see it.
What the check shows, and what it doesn't
It shows
- The stamp's code and the time at which Lymark's server recorded that the photo was issued.
- Whether the image is still the one that left Lymark: intact, when it is the exact file; verified, when it is a recompressed copy of the same scene.
- The distance between the address on the stamp and the GPS reported by the device, when the device reported its GPS.
It doesn't show
- That what the photo shows is true. The date, time and address on the stamp are the photographer's declaration; Lymark records the issuance, not the scene.
- That no pixel changed in a copy. “Verified” means the same scene within a tolerance, and a small edit, such as a thin crack painted out, can slip through. Keep the original file: only the original is checked byte for byte.
- In a copy of a plain wall, a ceiling or the sky there is little to compare, and the content may come out as “doubt”, which does not mean it was altered. It helps to get a light switch or a door frame into the shot.
- Copies that are heavily reduced or cropped. Below roughly 600 px on the longer side, or without the edge that carries the strip, the copy comes out unverified, and screenshots are not guaranteed to read. Coming out unverified does not suggest tampering, but it confirms nothing either.
- It is not a notary and does not replace the inspection report. The report still belongs to whoever carries out the inspection; Lymark provides photos that anyone can check.
Frequently asked questions
Do Lymark photos replace the inspection report?
No. The report still belongs to whoever carries out the inspection, whether that is an inspector, an agent or the parties themselves. Lymark provides the photos that go into it, with the issuance time recorded by the server and a strip that anyone can check. It is not a notary either.
How do I show that the photo wasn't taken on another day?
The check shows when Lymark's server recorded that the photo was issued, regardless of the phone's clock. A photo issued on move-in day cannot have been taken later, at move-out, and backdated. The capture date and time printed on the stamp are declared by the device; what the server records is the issuance.
Does the person receiving the photos need to install anything?
No. They just open lymark.app/verificar in a browser and drop in the photo. No account is needed, and the image never leaves the checker's device: it is read in the browser itself.
What if the photo is sent by message, email or social media?
The copy can still be checked. Those routes tend to recompress the image and strip its metadata, and the verification strip, painted into the pixels, survives that. The check compares the copy with what Lymark signed. Below roughly 600 px on the longer side, or with the edge that carries the strip cropped off, the copy comes out unverified, which does not suggest tampering.
Can the date or the address on the stamp be changed?
Before saving, yes: the date, time and address on the stamp are the photographer's declaration, and Lymark does not claim they are true. What cannot be adjusted is the issuance time, recorded by the server, which the check shows. And once issued, the photo is tied to what Lymark signed: a different photo, or a heavily altered scene, shows up as a divergence.
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