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!
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Butcher Judges? Know Your Landlord-Tenant Laws or Else!
Wouldn’t you think that a judge would possess some type of legal background? Not always! Often it is an elected position (read: all about politics). Someone knew someone, perhaps the popular town butcher, ran to be district judge and got voted right in. It’s...
The Rich Do Get Richer in Real Estate – Want to Join Them?
Answer honestly: would you rather be the kind of person who complains about others’ success, or would you rather be the kind of person who achieves success? Sure, when we put it like that, it’s easy to say “I’d rather be successful than sit around blaming the...
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 controllable from...
Unstable Ground! 5 Real Estate Disruptions on the Horizon
What are the odds that artificial intelligence will render real estate agents obsolete in the near future? If you answered “nearly 100%” then you answered right. At least according to a recent Oxford study on artificial intelligence. Scary stuff? Maybe. But is...
Mississippi Rental Law Summary
Did you know that Barq’s Root Beer was invented in Biloxi Mississippi in 1898? And… that the world’s largest shrimp is on display in Mississippi at the Old Spanish Fort Museum? Best of all, Mississippi is largely a landlord-friendly state where regulations...
Minnesota Rental Laws Guide
Sure, you may not be renting out a 9.5 million square foot building such as the Mall of America in Bloomington, but it's just as important to know the laws regulating residential property. Minnesota has definitive regulations surrounding disclosure and even how a...
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