Best way to collect rent for 1 month stay outside of Airbnb/VRBO?

[Michelle L.]

Hello-I am new to Furnished Finders and found a tenant for 1 month off season.  I don't have Stripe and am wondering if it's unusual to ask the tenant to pay upfront via Vemno or Zelle?  I normally only rent via Airbnb and VRBO so this hasn't come up before.  Thanks!

[Tyler Fontaine]

Im not 100% how you should handle this but something like apartments.com could work. It's free for users with a low number of units. You'd simply have to upload all the property info and then invite the renter to the unit to accept the terms and they can pay in advance through that for the rental. Both you and the renter would have access to the ledger and leases/agreements you have for the rental itself.