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27 December 2024 | 3 replies
Go to BUILD YOUR TEAM at the top of the screen and look for local investors or meetups in your area.
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26 December 2024 | 27 replies
One bit of advice where you can be ahead of the curve is to write down your screening criteria for possible tenants and commit to following it.
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28 December 2024 | 6 replies
Go to BUILD YOUR TEAM at the top of the screen and look for local investors or meetups in your area.
23 December 2024 | 9 replies
If you don’t want to hire a PM to manage your property I would at least hire one to do the screening.
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5 January 2025 | 33 replies
Paid the realtor to complete the tenant screening and both units were eventually filled.
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23 December 2024 | 34 replies
And given that, in a major city, there are hundreds of houses put on the market weekly, you need a method to efficiently screen properties to make sure they won't bleed money before you spend time analyzing, touring them ect.
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24 December 2024 | 5 replies
We embrace S8 applicants, but screen them just like any other applicant.Many have an entitlement mentality and try to leverage their S8 voucher by pretending to be helpless:1) A percentage won't apply because they expect a landlord to waive application fees for them.2) Many cry broke and expect a landlord NOT to charge them a security deposit.3) Many of those same S8 tenants trying to avoid paying a security deposit, won't make an effort to call the list of nonprofits we send them that will pay their security deposit if they apply.4) A lot of them try to avoid paying for utilities.
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24 December 2024 | 1 reply
Go to GET STARTED > EVENTS AND MEETUPS at the top of your screen.
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30 December 2024 | 7 replies
What screening process do you use?
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27 December 2024 | 3 replies
Go to BUILD YOUR TEAM at the top of the screen and look for local investors or meetups in your area.