screen first or show property first

[Mohammad Sheatt]

Few questions for the landlords in here

if a prospective tenant wants o see the property, do you show them then screen or do you screen and if all is OK then show the property ?

Also what do you guys do then there is 3-4 unrelated adults that want to rent the property, do you charge extra for lets say more than 2 adults? are kids better than adults as far as wear and tear and property abuse or the other way around ?

Thanks 

[Stephen E.]

@Mohammad Sheatt I ask some basic screening questions and then move to a showing. My questions are: When would you want to move into the unit? Who would be living there? Does anyone smoke? What pets do you have? If you took the unit, how long would you stay?

I then show the property unless the answers show lots of red flags. In answer to your question, 3-4 unrelated adults sounds like student housing or an adult group. Groups tend to break up quite easily and you could very well lose control of your property with the group letting in new members without consulting you. I would never rent to a group and I would be wary of students, although I have a PhD student and a partner who is a carpenter moving in to one of my units now, but they are mature and not at all the usual group of 20 year olds out to party.