Do applicants/tenants know your home address/cell number?

[Kurt Gardner]

My wife has expressed concern about allowing people who are applying for our properties to know our home address (to send applications when they need to be mailed).  Even tenants who pay for rent know our address so they can mail the payment and she is a little uneasy with that.

My response is our business is registered to our home address and I've never really thought about having a P.O. Box or other because people could find our address with a basic search.  Eliminating that option is possible to a degree, but would take effort I'm not sure is worth the hassle.

Her concern is what if a "nutter" gets mad at us and wants to take it out at our personal property? I'm not that concerned, but it is a reasonable question and I promised I'd ask the experts.

To make it a "two-fer," how about phone numbers?  Do you provide your personal cell or a separate business number?

Thank you!

[Andy Webb]

We try to create some distance by using a PO Box and a Google-voice phone number for our tenants (free service).   As for paying rent, we require that all tenants use an electronic payment service (eRentPayment) - that might eliminate the need to provide a mailing address at all.

Andy