Landlord Checklist for Showing Your Rental Property
In previous posts we’ve talked about advertising your rental property and screening the potential tenants that contact you. But how can you, as a landlord, efficiently handle the actual appointments?…
Top 10 Tenant Excuses For Late Rent
These are actual excuses (modified slightly to protect privacy) that tenants have given me for being late with their rent. I thought it might be fun to share them with…
Book Review: You Can Negotiate Anything
Some books are timeless. The best ones are those that help you become more successful in some aspect of your life– throughout your life. Even better when they can help…
Holding Deposit Agreements: useful tool or bad policy?
A landlord recently purchases a property with a vacant unit. Diligently, he advertises and weeds through a multitude of unqualified applicants (mostly due to lack of income, poor credit and/or…
Fair Housing: How To Avoid a $15,000 Mistake
In the last few articles we’ve talked about how to figure out rents and where to advertise. An extremely important aspect of your advertising to find suitable renters for your…
Finding Tenants: Free Ways to Get Tons of Good Applicants!
I just filled a vacancy. Actually, I still have to get the CO and move the tenants in, but I have already collected the rental “hold” deposit. So, effectively it…
Screening Prospective Tenants: Questions to Ask
Hopefully, a short time after advertising your vacant unit, you will receive calls from a whole bunch of interested prospective tenants. Now comes the challenge– how do you make a…