How to become a tenant farm?

[Nat C.]

I manage some of my properties whilst I have others assigned to property managers. I am wondering if other members can share their tips, tricks and advice for advertising and finding tenants for the properties I self manage? I'm not from the US and I don't think I'm working to my full potential. I've tried a few different websites and craigslist seems to be the only one which gets any responses. I'm sure there are some better ways for placing tenants.

Has anyone had much luck with placing signs out the front of the property?

[Thomas Williamson]

Nat a website that I use along with Craigslist is Postlets.com

https://postlets.com/

Postlets is a fantastic site, and best of all it's free. When you post your add with Postlets, it automatically blast the ad out to lots of other sites like Zillow, Hotpads, Craigslist, Trulia, etc. I get leads from all of those sites when I post on Postlets. Another thing I do is make a quick video of the property inside and out, and upload that to YouTube. Once its on YouTube, I copy the link for the video and put that link in the ad for the property as well. I found that cuts down on tons of questions. I tell them everything they need to know about the property in the video. The other great thing about the video, is it also cuts down on the number of showings. I tell people watch the video, then go to the property and look at it and the neighborhood, and if you're still interested, then we'll schedule a showing.

As far as signs in the yard, I quit doing that. I really believe signs are market specific and neighborhood specific, so it works for some but not for others, so for me a sign in the front yard really isn't a big deal anymore. Good luck.