It is fine as a screening mechanism, but you want to speak with local property managers or other experts to find out how the building will actually operate.

You can screen tenants, collect rents, and do evictions.

Great houses, in great neighborhoods, that priced well rent out to great screened tenants that can be managed long distance.

I can see doing something like that repeatedly would be silly when all he has to do is screen better.

After that a very strict screening process is what you will need to do to avoid the units being trashed.

Hope you properly screened them!

I know some Landlords that do it all the time with many many properties and NO bad outcome.Put the lockbox on the property and after the callers pass phone screening, give them the code to show it to themselves.

Justin: The {so called} 50% rule {of thumb} serves only to allow a quick screening of a property for the purpose of determining whether it deserves a full analysis.

The down side is that it doesn't always attract better tenants.When I do have a vacant unit, I put a lock box on it and people show it to themselves whenever they want after they pass my phone screening.

Upon inspection right before move out, I noticed the screens were messed up.