Get started with Leja in 5 minutes

Follow the steps for your role — property professional or resident — to set up your Leja account, connect your identity, and make your first witnessed record.

Leja has two entry points depending on who you are. If you manage properties or work as an agent, you’ll start with Leja Professional. If you’re a tenant, space seeker, or service provider, you’ll start with Resident. Both paths begin at leja.com and take about five minutes to complete.

Property professionals

Follow these steps if you’re an agent, property manager, or running a real estate organisation. By the end, you’ll have a property in your portfolio, a tenant linked to it, and your first witnessed payment receipt generated.

1. Create your account

   Go to leja.com and sign up. Choose Leja Professional when prompted to select your surface. You’ll verify your email address before continuing.

2. Set up your organisation

   After signing in, you’ll land in the Leja Professional onboarding flow. Enter your organisation name and select your primary operating state. Leja uses your state to determine which tenancy laws, receipt formats, and agreement clauses apply by default.

   If you’re a solo agent without a registered firm, you can proceed without creating an organisation — your personal RIN acts as your professional identity.

3. Add your first property

   Navigate to Portfolio and click Add property. Enter the property address, select the state and LGA, and specify the property type. Leja assigns a Property RIN automatically — a permanent identifier that will hold this property’s entire tenancy and maintenance history.

4. Add a tenant

   Open the property and click Add tenant. Enter the tenant’s details including their NIN (National Identification Number). Leja creates or links their Resident Identity Number (RIN) and connects them to this tenancy. The tenant receives a notification that a tenancy has been recorded on their RIN.

5. Confirm your first payment

   When the first rent payment is received, go to the tenancy record and click Confirm payment. Enter the amount and payment date and confirm. This is the witnessing act — you are attesting that the payment was received. The record is now permanent and cannot be altered.

6. Generate and share the receipt

   Leja generates a state-compliant receipt immediately after confirmation. The receipt is numbered in the LJA-YYYYMM-XXXX format and formatted to the legal requirements of the property’s state. Share it directly with your tenant from within the platform.

   Your professional record now has one verified transaction on it. Every subsequent payment you confirm adds to both your record and your tenant’s Trust Graph.

You’ve created a property, linked a tenant, confirmed a payment, and generated a verified receipt. Your professional record on Leja has begun.

Residents

Follow these steps if you’re a tenant, space seeker, or anyone participating in the Nigerian residential economy as an individual. By the end, you’ll have a verified RIN and access to your payment history.

1. Create your account

   Go to leja.com and sign up. Choose Resident when prompted to select your surface. Verify your email address to continue.

2. Verify your identity with your NIN

   Leja uses your National Identification Number (NIN) to verify your identity and issue your RIN. Enter your NIN when prompted during onboarding. This is a one-time step — your NIN is used for verification only and is never displayed to other parties.

   Your NIN is required to claim your RIN. Without NIN verification, Leja cannot issue a permanent identity or attach witnessed records to your account. If you don’t have your NIN handy, you can pause and return — your progress is saved.

3. Claim your Resident Identity Number (RIN)

   Once your NIN is verified, Leja issues your RIN — a permanent, portable identifier that will follow you for life. Your RIN is yours regardless of which properties you live in, which state you move to, or which agents you work with.

   If an agent has already recorded tenancy events on your behalf (from a current or previous tenancy), those events will appear in your Trust Graph automatically once your RIN is claimed.

4. View your payment history

   Navigate to My Trust Graph in your Resident dashboard. You’ll see every payment that has been witnessed on your behalf, including the confirming agent, the property, the amount, and the date. Each entry links to the state-compliant receipt.

   If your current tenancy is not yet showing, ask your agent or property manager to add you to their Leja Professional account. Once they do, all future payments they confirm will appear here in real time.

Your RIN is active and your Trust Graph is live. Every payment your agent confirms from here forward becomes a permanent, verified entry in your residential record.

What comes next

Once you’ve completed the quick start, explore the rest of the documentation for your surface.

Leja Professional guide

Properties, tenants, agreements, receipts, and your professional record — explained in full.

Resident guide

Your RIN, Trust Graph, the three identity tracks, and how to share your record securely.

How Leja works

Understand the witnessing model, Trust Graph, and the lifecycle of a tenancy record.

Core concepts

RINs, witnessed records, state compliance, and the three tracks of economic identity.