App Fee & Background/Credit Check prior to showing?

[Joshua D.]

Me and my wife have developed our real estate business the last 4 years and I really wanna streamline it to where we really happy with it and have freedom. We have a child on the way and i really would like more time with family. I understand this is the easiest business to be in. I really wanna grow and streamline it and do well financially for freedom. We have 15 properties now. My question is about renting. When you advertise a unit for rent, do you charge an application fee & have them perform a background/credit check prior to seeing the unit? Or do you just have them pay the application fee prior to viewing? We’ve noticed that renters have no issue paying the application fee prior to seeing a unit but don’t want to have to also pay for the background/credit check prior to even seeing the unit?