Tenant showing services for our of State landlords

[Tessa Tsui]

Seeking advice from out of state landlords. Do any of you use any app to do tenant placement on ad-hoc basis? This is for rental properties in Pennsylvania while I live in another State. I currently use a property manager but they are very bad in tenant placements who do not answer calls or inquiries from Zillow. Over 1 month with 124 Zillow potential tenant contacts, the property manager report showed no leads from Zillow and couldn't find tenants. I ended taking over the listing and screening tenants on my own through Zillow. It took me 5 days to find qualified tenants with good credit score and income but my property manager still charges me full listing fee even though I did the whole listing, marketing and prescreening and they helped with 1 showing - they only showed one tenant who I prescreened through Zillow. I am considering other options to see if there are ways I can hire someone to just do showing only and mamage my own rent collection through Zillow app, I also have my own contactors to do maintenance but have been paying monthly fee to my property manager who has done literally nothing, they also never answered my calls.

[Ryan Spath]

We manage properties in Florida and we live in Idaho. You can totally do this, work with a realtor or PM and pay them a flat fee for helping turn the property / show the unit. You can do all the prequalifying from anywhere via credit check, call references, verify income etc.

Make sure you have a handy person, ac person, plumber, etc etc that you can call when you need some work done. 

Best of luck!