Finding a new tenant in Humble TX

[Brian Kalinowski]

Greetings,

I have a rental property in Houston that will be vacant next month. I am finding tenant for the first time on my own. I do not want to hire a realtor to put it on the MLS because there fees are to step for what you get it seems. Does anybody have any good advise for marketing this home? I have got leads from the sign, zillow and Next door, but everyone has had bad rental history.

[Cody L.]

bad rental history = charge a higher deposit.

Find an agent to toss it on MLS. They'll do it for cheap. Tell them you don't need them to show or do any work. Problem might be they're going to want to put ~1/2 months rent for the tenants agent as commission. I only put $1 for the tenants agent but that's because I don't care of those agents get pissed at me. But an agent who's posting it for you to help you out isn't going to want the blow back.

But yeah, who cares if they have evictions if you're protected by a monster deposit.  now if they don't have a deposit OR good rental history then PASS.