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:
Vacant Unit? How to Write Irresistible Rental Listings
If you want good returns, you need long-term, excellent renters who will pay on time and treat your property with respect. Tenant screening will help you spot the best rental application in your pool of applicants, but how do you attract the biggest,...
Tenant Screening 101: What to Do with EVERY Rental Application
Imagine cash flow from a rental property as water running through a pipe. Every time the pipe leaks, you lose money. Once you’ve purchased a property, your returns (ROI) are based on minimizing those leaks. So how do you maximize ROI and cash flow, while...
Smart Rental: 7 Cheap Tech Upgrades to Boost Your Rents & ROI
Looking for a little extra pizzazz to make your empty rental stand out and rent for more? Consider making it a “smart home.” For a few hundred dollars, you can trick out your rental property with connected devices that make it easily programmable and...
Should Landlords Rent to Illegal Immigrants?
*Note on Terminology: Conservatives and liberals can’t even agree on terminology, with conservatives using the pejorative “illegal aliens” and liberals using the cuddly “undocumented immigrants.” We’ll split the difference here and use the term “illegal immigrants,”...
Beyond Credit Reports: Subtle Red Flags in Tenant Screening
In this Video: Tips for...
The Goldilocks Conundrum: When Is a Rental Under-Improved, Over-Improved or Just Right?
As someone who has over-improved his fair share of rental properties, I’ve learned some expensive answers to that question. How do you calculate returns on improvements, when each neighborhood (and sometimes each block) is different? How do you draw a line when...
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