How To Choose Tenants Carefully

How To Choose Tenants Carefully

One of the issues that keeps landlords or prospective landlords up at night is the thought of how to get good tenants into their rental homes or apartment units. It is an issue that all landlords fret over. So what can you do to deal with it successfully. If you have signed up with a Rental Property Owners Association, you can check on the tenant to see if there is a local history of evictions. Have each prospective tenant make out a Rental Application form. You can obtain these through many available legal document software programs. I personally have used Family Lawyer@ for many years for this purpose. Then run a simple credit check. You can either 鈥渆at鈥?the cost of this yourself or put a fee in to cover this report into your rental application form. 9.95 and on up, dependant on what you desire. Then also show due diligence by checking out references from previous landlords, confirm employment, and be cautious.

I had a tenant move out and left me a trashed and damaged apartment. The future landlord called me for a reference, and I was honest to the point of being blunt that this was a bad tenant, yet he rented to them anyway. On the other side, don鈥檛 always just rely on the current landlord a prospective tenant may have. They may give you a glowing reference just to get rid of a lousy tenant. So go back farther in your checking to other landlords in the past. Don鈥檛 be afraid to inspect the place where they live presently. Check its condition, and how the tenant keeps it up. That will be a good indication of how they will care for your property. One landlord recalled that he had a sudden vacancy and he put out the FOR RENT sign. Two gals in a newer Mercedes Benz pulled up, saw the apartment and wanted it right away; in fact they would give him a check immediately for the first month鈥檚 rent and deposit. He didn鈥檛 do a credit check and guess what happened?

Now he had to work to get them evicted without any money in his pocket. So follow the rule: CASH, BANK MONEY ORDER or BANK CERTIFIED CHECK or no keys or lease! That鈥檚 my rule that I follow implicitly. Yes I will take checks in the future but the first big one is GUARANTEED! Never get in a rush to rent it out. Yes you probably have payments to make and now utilities to care for, but a bad tenant can cost you THOUSANDS in the long run. Work to get a good tenant and then hopefully you can retain them for many years. Location also is important; usually the rule is that you get the tenants that the neighborhoods wants. Author's Bio: Jon Porrey is a Fulltime Realtor with 15 years experience in buying and selling homes in West Michigan and has been a Rental Property Owner for over 16 years,with owned units throughout the West Michigan Area. Please Register or Login to post new comment. HOW TO IMPLEMENT BLOCKCHAIN SUCCESSFULLY? RIL's e-commerce push: Will Reliance Retail be the next Jio? High-Quality App Development in the USA Trends to Follow in 2019 and Beyond. Are You a Perfectionist?

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