Prospective tenants want to see clean living spaces.
By blending some of the property characteristics that
prospective tenants want with some of the business characteristics of what you need, you will select a winner every time.
Not exact matches
If you have property manager, he or she will screen the
prospective tenant but you will have the final say as to whether you
want to rent to that person.
If your
prospective landlord is asking for an amount that seems unreasonable to you, check with your local
tenant's board (or you might
want to just go with a different landlord).
This professional usually works for building owners who
want to rent out their apartment and is responsible for soliciting
prospective tenants and negotiating a lease contract with both parties.
And in other cases the caginess around providing the data may also stem from the fact that landlords don't
want to show
prospective tenants just how dismal traffic has been.
Follow - up question for you both: If I find a renter first, and assuming they
want a 1 year lease, would
prospective buyers just need to know there's an active lease and the
tenants will remain in the house until it expires?
The last thing you
want is the agent handing out your keys to
prospective tenants and allowing them to view your property on their own.
i.e., if the owner doesn't
want pets, and the
prospective tenant has pets, the system would just say something generic, like:: We are sorry, but this unit does not allow pets.
In my case, at the end of their lease when I
wanted to show the property to
prospective long term
tenants, the
tenant gave me all kinds of grief about «invading her privacy» and «disrupting her life» even though I told her at the beginning of the lease that this was our procedure and I made every attempt to 1) give 48 hr lead times, when typically I would only give 24, and 2) blocked / scheduled showings for 1 day per week and 1 weekend day away from dinner time / church times, etc. maybe this was just the person I was dealing with though...
Not only does this provide housing, it also protects property owners: «This is a way for property owners in these areas to achieve a «meeting of minds» with their
prospective tenants and achieve much higher occupancy levels, while the
tenants get the clean, safe and secure accommodation they
want at an affordable price.
As an actual or
prospective buyer or
tenant, we
want to alert you to the situation so that you can minimize the risk that you could be a victim.
You also need to figure out whose contact information will be on those listings — do you
want prospective tenants calling you or a property manager?
Once you set the price and put a listing on the market, telling
prospective tenants that you
want more isn't acceptable.
Unless the
prospective tenant can prove that they have a reasonable explanation for
wanting to move in quickly (e.g., their house burnt down), consider this a red flag.
Of course, you'll still
want to contact past landlords for a reference check, to make sure the
prospective tenant's behavior at prior residences was up to par.
It's best to allow your
prospective tenants to make their own decisions by providing them with information on all available units, even the ones you don't think they'd
want.
If you have time, you may
want to drive by a
prospective tenant's current living space — that is what your property will probably look like when that
tenant lives there.