Vacancy Advertising & Tenant Screening
Want higher ROI on your rentals? Fill your vacant rental unit with the best possible renters, ASAP.
Have a vacant rental unit on your hands?
Vacancies are expensive, and they’re time-consuming to fill. Lucky you! But unless you want to be right back in this position in six months, an eviction later, get it right the first time.
Advertise on multiple rental listing websites. Give every person who expresses interest a rental application (ours is free, emailable and e-signable – hint hint).
Then run tenant screening reports on all applicants. Get a full credit report, nationwide criminal background check, and nationwide eviction report. Have the applicant pay the fee for these (our screening reports can be charged directly to the applicant).
Then it’s calls, calls calls. Supervisors. HR departments. Personal references. Current landlords. Prior landlords. If that sounds like a lot of work, it’s nothing compared to unpaid rent, serving eviction notices, filing in rent court, appearing in front of a judge, meeting the sheriff at the property, and then spending thousands of dollars to get the property back in rental shape.
Here are a few fundamental articles to get you started, and from there, you can explore our other articles in the Advertising & Tenant Screening category to make sure you get the perfect long-term tenant, every vacancy!
“Required Reading” – Start Here First!
Still hungry after eating those up? Well, we won’t let you down. There’s plenty of rental advertising and resident screening articles to sink your teeth into!
Full Library of Advertising & Tenant Screening Articles:
Billions in Deferred Capital Gains Become Taxable This Year. Here’s Where That Capital Lands Next.
The Short Version: Current Qualified Opportunity Zone designations expire at the end of 2026, meaning investors who deferred capital gains face a taxable event regardless of whether they've exited their fund position Congress made the QOZ program permanent but with...
Tariffs Are Hitting Consumers Hard and Why Real Estate Investors Are in the Right Place
The Short Version: Goldman Sachs projects 67% of Trump's tariff costs land on US consumers alone by July 2026... and that number has a direct and underappreciated effect on real estate demand Tariffs raised the cost of building a new single-family home by roughly...
Congress Just Banned Institutional Investors From Buying Single-Family Homes. Who Really Benefits?
The Short Version: The Senate passed a near-unanimous bill forcing institutional giants to offload their single-family home portfolios but the real story isn't what they're selling, it's where that capital flows next Most coverage celebrated this as a homebuyer win,...
The Least Glamorous Real Estate Investment (That Keeps Paying Anyway)
The Short Version: A secured note investor can still get paid even if the deal itself falls apart… because their return isn’t tied to appreciation, rent growth, or a successful exit. In a foreclosure scenario, “first position” determines who gets paid first… and who’s...
The Tax Advantage Most Real Estate Investors Are Leaving on the Table
The Short Version: High earners hand nearly 40 cents of every additional dollar to the government... while passive real estate investors collecting real cash distributions often pay close to zero on that income The tax code treats real estate fundamentally differently...
The Five Risk Categories Every Passive Real Estate Investor Should Evaluate
The Short Version: Most investors ask the wrong question before wiring funds... and that single mental error is why so many passive real estate deals quietly underperform Five risk categories sit underneath every syndication deal, and weak ones always fail somewhere...
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