Rental Showings Management

[Valentín Sanjuan]

Have been reading the forums for a while and I came across some posts of people trying to figure it out how to handle showings and problems associated with it. I was interested because I think I might help by building something that could free-up people's time and improve manual workflows, but I wanted to first define if it would be worth to build it and make better sense of it. So far, these are some of the problems associated with showings that I have recognized and I could improve. I have also thought on ideas related to open houses but I prefer to leave them for another post.

1:1 Showing Problems

1) Problem: Lot of applications but few of them qualify landlord's criteria.  
Solution: Pre Screening form, usually with google forms.

2) Problem: Finding the right spot to schedule the 1:1. 
Solution: Group same house showings in the same day/same few days (*)

3) Problem: Last time cancellations.
Solution: Ask for explicit confirmation. Usually calling the potential renter 1hr before

I could put a solution to automate and integrate all of this, so we would have automatic filtering of candidates, if he qualifies, he could pick a meeting on your available spots (something similar to what calendly does), and the system could require for the candidate to confirm assistance. 

May I ask you how much time it takes to  you to go through all of this steps (reviewing forms, scheduling showings, calling people for confirmations) and if you consider that it takes considerable time off your day?

Answering those questions and sharing anything else that you find relevant will help me understand better what you need and how I could help :)

Thank you all!