Tips to avoid too many low quality calls for "for Rent" Ad

[James Kandasamy]

Whenever we put for rent sign on the yard and the relevant junction near to the House we are planning to rent, we get too many calls asking for simple questions. These questions can be "Is the house a 3 bed, 2 bath" and what is the rent per month. For example for one of my recent ad, we received almost 50 calls within 3 days and 7 high quality calls with 3 applying at the end. I am a bit reluctant to put the rent price on the yard sign as that seems to be more "exclusive" info for the neighborhood. I am thinking of having Google voice number with voice mail that explains basic info about that house. if they are still interested, then they can leave their number. I can call them back at our own leisure. I want to know whether anybody have any other tips to reduce the low quality calls where basic questions are being asked ?

[Jon Holdman]

Those "low quality calls" are just part of your sales funnel. Fifty calls that turned into a new tenant sounds quite good to me. That's about what I would expect. Most of them simple want to hear the basics - rent, rooms, deposit, criteria.

I think simply answering the phone goes a long way to getting a tenant.

If you want to avoid that the solution is to hand the property over to a PM. That's a high price to pay to avoid those calls.