Property Management - Self Showings

[Jamie Harris]

So we closed on our first rental unit, a triplex in Cincinnati, OH. We've hired a property management company that came well-referred.

They utilize an interesting process for showing rentals to potential tenants. They allow the potential renter to "self-show" the property. Basically, they provide the tenant with the lock-box code and they can view the property unsupervised.

Is this a common practice in property management? Are there better solutions e.g. group showings, that we should suggest to our PMC to implement?

Thanks!