What's your favorite site (or method) to find your next tenant?

[Jeff Ausdemore]

Hello BP'ers!

My wife and I are wrapping up the details on our 2nd SFH here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Thanks to a few meet ups and the fantastic podcasts/webinars on BP, we're "all in" these days for real estate to be a major wealth generating opportunity for us long term.

Thus far, we've been VERY fortunate with our renters, because we spend quite a bit of time vetting them to the very best of our ability. It's been nearly flawless so far. We've used Trulia, Zillow, Hotpads, Postlets, and Craigslist to post the ad, and we follow up with My Smart Move .com for the screening process.

Is there a better site/method to your success?

Thanks in advance for your replies/opinions!

JA

[James Ehrig]

Hey @Jeff Ausdemore,

I would say those are great sites for marketing for renters.  I have had great success utilizing the same websites. If you are offering a good product at market rates there will be no issues finding quality tenants.  Landlordstation.com also offers pretty great screening. It offers background, criminal, employment, credit, previous addresses and known aliases.   As you mentioned before the key to great tenants is a great screening process.  If they property is nice then the tenants are more likely to keep it that way. Also,  an iron-clad lease agreement to "scare them straight"  also helps.   Happy Fishing.