Having carpeted floors with high quality padding will greatly help reduce noise. 

Anything below that is really not high-quality as you will be missing out on a large part of your marketing list that doesn't have records.

@Tiamo Wright it used to be tricky to find quality tenants from October to March here, but our seasonality has been all off since covid and demand has been super high IME.

use quality contractors and be clear and exact about expectations and outcomes.

You have to just network in real life and in forums and figure out who is real, but on your end, you have to build a reputation for delivering quality opportunities which is hard to do at 19.

Hello All,I just got the 2nd unit of my first house hack duplex ready for tenants and am using a realtor to lease the unit.I am using a realtor to fill the unit as I have limited time and also wanted to learn from somebody else doing it.There has been interest in the unit but only a couple of people have filled out the application.We dropped/discounted the rent to be inline with whatever other similar apartments are available in my immediate area.And I believe that my unit is the best one available due to its location and the quality of the rehab/upgrades.The realtor has listed the unit on all of the usual sites and has held an open house.It looks like there are not a lot of people looking to rent apartments in my immediate area at the moment.Question:Does anybody have any advice as to what else we could do to get the unit filled with a quality tenant?

Quality over quantity is my bias opinion.

Higher quality of tenants.

These cities tends to command quality tenants and they have great schools.Feel free to message me for more information on the Houston market or any other question.

The house is 330k(which is a pretty hefty amount over here but it is a quality house ) its my wifes "dream house".