All Forum Posts by: Kimberly H.

@Jennifer T. I recently had an outgoing tenant have a total fit when I reminded them that their lease ended May 6th so they still owed for those 6 days of May. I guess they had thought that was going to be a gift too. They threatened to take us to court and were demanding to know were in the lease it talked about prorating rent. Nevermind that the rent was prorated in their favor a few years ago when their lease started a few days into May...

Just signed a tenant who is really happy about having the option to pay every other week as they get paid. Obviously all the verbiage in the lease about the first of the month needs to be modified with an addendum for this different pay structure.  I have searched and googled all over the place and can't find one online to even start with.

Does anyone have one they can share with me? I did look in the file place here and didn't find anything for this.

@Linda Weygant

@Jonathan Taylor Smith I had been wondering the same thing; my tenants are contacts on my phone. I'm not happy about it either. At least make sure all your posts, pics, ect. are private.

@Bhanu P. you'll probably need to go commercial. We ran into the same thing at 4 properties with Ameriprise.

if the house is in Chicago, you may not want to to do a deposit but some sort of move on fee due to special Chicago landlord tenant rules. In the burbs i have seen landlords going towards variable security deposits where it depends on the the risk of the tenants

@Rick S. Good point.  However, for full screening you don't need to run large numbers of reports a year.  I have had a site inspection, all they needed to see was that I processed applications in an office with a door and had a locked file cabinet and the cost of the inspection was maybe $100 if that. 

@Andreas W. I agree in certain cases offering some money may be a sign of weakness or admission of guilt.

@Isabelle Schofield a disagree with the above, you need SSNs to pull credit report.

I did notice a bunch of weird stuff you are asking for, instead of getting into all of that I suggest you find some other online applications and see what they ask for.

The things that jumped out at me as weird asking for credit card #s and balances, bank account #s and balances, you want start dates and end dates for addresses and jobs (month and year), and lumping in pets with other occupants.

@Steve Babiak Thanks, I knew there had to be some weird angle the agent's client was working on this.