From a beginers prospective it doesn't make much sense since I haven't experienced these things yet.How to Buy and Manage Rental Properties: The Milin Method of Real Estate Management for the Small InvestorThis book has some interesting forms to use.

As with any tenant, the best advice I can give you is to listen to your gut feeling and watch the behavior of the prospective tenant carefully.

With regard to the unit, even for rental properties, I think it's critical to stage the unit with reasonably nice, and color-coordinated furniture that allows the prospective renter to "visualize" living there.

If I want to tracks trends in a particular residential neighborhood or zip code one way to do it would be to:(1) keep track of the number of homes put up for sale per month and (2) keep track of the number of prospective buyers who visit those homes per month and(3) keep track of the number of homes that sell per month.Applying simple math formulas to those those numbers I might find some insight into what is happening in terms of demand and supply.

I read in another post that giving an agent just 3% deters them.

(just imagine the oppurtunities in that)-Home to University of Alberta (one of the top leading medical research universities in the world)-Home to the largest mall in the world: West Edmonton Mall (www.wem.ca)-Plus much more delights about this city that makes it a prospect to buy in.

There are a million issues that can come up in a sale, even after they find a prospective buyer that can hold things up.

i review every prospect each month.we'll keep an eye on this one.

When the Realtor and her clients drove by the property and saw several passenger cars in the driveway, they thought the home was being shown to other rental prospects and decided to come back later.

In my area, realtors are hugging prospective buyers because they are so rare.