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Updated over 8 years ago,
How to find out who manages a rental property, not the owner.
I want to know if anyone knows a way to find out who manages a rental property.
I want to verify that my applicant gave me the right contact information of their previous landlord/property manager and not his friend posing for a landlord. I know I can call the county and find out who the owner is, but a lot of times the owner is not the contact person, but the property manager is, how do I verify the property manager of an address?
I know you can call the previous landlord on application and ask very specific questions about the tenant to see if they are real landlord or not, but those are not good enough because there are a lot of fake landlord services out there that know how to be fake landlords (google "fake landlord reference") So I need a better way to verify this.
Is there a tool where I can search this online? or any other way experienced property managers go about this? or am I the only one who is too conservative on tenant screening?
Thanks for any help or direction.