All Forum Posts by: Mariah Klemp

What are your baseline qualifications for a tenant? Do you find pre screening tenants with a few standard questions turns people away?

If a tenant has NO credit - would you consider them?

I recently acquired a property that has been neglected for years. I'm doing a light rehab and going to rent it out. 
The property is on a hill and has some drainage issues, so it's kind of hard to mow. Because of that, the entire backyard and much of front yard is full of poison ivy, so much so that every contractor that has worked on the rehab has been out for a few days because of it. I'm highly allergic myself otherwise I'd clean it up. Several people told me to just kill it quick before renting and hope for the best as tenants don't care too much about a backyard. There is basically just crab grass and poison ivy. Would you spend $5k to have a landscaper scrape regrade and reseed?