Free Stuff for Rental Investors
Because, well, who doesn’t like freebies?
Free Tenant Background Check
Want to test drive running tenant screening reports through our online landlord app?
As a welcome gift, we offer a free identity check and SSN trace, including:
- SSN verification (including when it was issued)
- Date of birth
- Current home address
- How long they’ve lived there
- Alternate names and aliases
If you want to continue on to run a full credit report, criminal background check, and/or eviction report, you can do so with a few clicks. For a quick sample video of how it works, you can view full details on our Free Tenant Background Check page.
Take the system for a spin and let us know what you think!
Free Rental Application
What’s better than free?
Free and awesome.
Our free rental application is extremely thorough, offering you a detailed look at each prospective tenant’s life. What’s more, you can send it with the click of a button through our online landlord app, and select to include a credit report, criminal background check, and/or eviction report.
No printing necessary! The rental application is 100% electronic and automatic. The trees will thank you, and so will your prospects.
Free Rental Property Calculator
We talk a lot about forecasting rental cash flow and returns. We even get into all kinds of quirky charts, graphs, and other ways to help you visualize how rental property cash flow works.
Want to dive in and get your hands dirty? Run some numbers? Evaluate a prospective rental investment property.
No problem. You can now access our Rental Property Calculator for free.
Our rental income calculator includes less obvious expenses like vacancy rates and property management expenses, in addition expenses like repairs, CapEx, maintenance, property taxes, insurance, etc.
As we’re fond of saying, math is more fun when your calculating your future riches!
Free Lease Agreement
Need a quick, no-frills lease agreement?
We’ve got you covered.
With a few clicks you can import your applicant data into a simple free lease agreement that covers the basics. No, it’s not the bulletproof tank of a lease that we sell in our state-specific lease packages, but sometimes you don’t need the heavy armor.
Give it a try; after all, it’s 100% free!
Free 8-Video Course: How to Retire Early with Rental Properties
With enough passive income from investments, you can cover your living expenses. It’s called financial independence: the point at which your day job becomes optional, and you can retire early if you like. Or keep working — on your own terms.
In this fast-paced course, we take you through a series of 10-minute videos to designed to help you start down the road toward financial independence or retiring early (FIRE) through rental income!
Tenant Credit, Criminal, & Eviction Reports (free for landlords)
All right, so these aren’t free in the same sense as the other freebies on this page, since somebody still has to pay for them. But that somebody doesn’t have to be you.
Order full tenant credit reports (including FICO score), nationwide criminal background checks, and nationwide eviction history reports. You can select to have the applicant charged directly for them, or you can select to pay them yourself if you prefer.
There’s no site inspection necessary, and as soon as the applicant approves your request, the tenant screening reports are instantly yours.
Pretty easy, right?
Webinar: Build a Short-Term Rental Business with No Down Payments
Want to start building a rental business, but don’t have a hefty down payment set aside?
We brought in guest expert Al Williamson to show you how to use rental arbitrage to build your own short-term rental business — without actually having to buy any properties.
He walks you through not just Airbnb and vacation rentals, but also the even more lucrative business traveler market of extended stays. It’s a fun, punchy webinar with plenty of real-world examples of how you can get started with little cash.
Free Financial Independence/Retire Early (FIRE) Calculator
How much do you need to save up for retirement? When do you want to reach financial independence and/or retire? How much do you need to save and invest each month to get there?
Our free FIRE calculator helps you answer these questions and more. We take a holistic view of post-retirement income, incorporating income sources from paper assets (stocks and bonds), rental properties, post-FIRE gigs, and even Social Security.
Whether you’re new to the concept of financial independence and retiring early, or been at it for a while, our FIRE calculator is both simple and robust enough to help you plan your independence from the 9-5 grind.
