How To Market To College Rentals

[Christopher Imbarrato]

Good afternoon everyone, 

   First of all thank you for stumbling onto this post and taken the time out to read it and help a fellow rei. 

          I have just recently closed on a sfh and spent about a months work of construction on it. I am now in the stage of marketing this rental to potential tenants for 12 months. The thing about this rental is that it will be a share home for college students in a very popular college are (New Haven CT). I have been trying to market this home all over the place for the past two weeks and I have not found too much success. I have used sources such as Facebook, craigslist, zillow, Instagram, and Uloop to advertise this rental to people who go to college in this area. Although these are all great ways to reach out to potential renters I feel that I am lacking a potential source that will really help me find my next few tenants. 

Therefore, I am here to ask you all if I am missing some sort of advertisement strategy and/ or if their is something I can do next time to prevent this from happening to my next rentals. I just feel that this rental is not getting the publicity it deserves from people that are looking to rent. 

[Andres Bernal]

@Christopher Imbarrato i owned couple college rentals and I will suggest to go into the Facebook groups on the college that you are near by. They have off campus housing fb groups and that’s a great way.

I also suggest to ask if they have WhatsApp” groups. International students use WhatsApp a lot and sometimes they look for places to rent there.

Good luck!