Tenant Placement Services (Fall River / New Bedford)

[Ryan Morrissey]

I own 18 units in the Fall River / New Bedford area and currently have 5 vacancies. 3 units are on market, and 2 more are being cleaned up and will be on market next week. A couple of the units already on market have been on for several weeks, and one of them has been on market for about 6 weeks.

My property manager has a rental agent in house who is responsible for placing tenants, but I just don’t get the sense that their tactics for placing tenants are super effective as it’s taking a long time to fill the vacancies and prospective applicants that they’ve sent me are not very good and I’ve rejected them.

I’m looking for ideas from other landlords/PMs in the area on how I can most effectively increase the funnel of quality applicants to my vacant units, or if there are specific resources/agencies that people have used to do so. I’m willing to pay for those placement services if it can bring me good, qualified applicants that get placed in the units.

Thanks,

Ryan