Putting out for rent signs in the yard will only invite theft !

Let's connect on here(check your inbox for an invite) and I'll let you know about the services that I'm currently using that can help you with your search for comps(without a RE License). 

Although our app is designed for landlords to be able to set up a lease and invite their tenants to pay rent, none of this is required.

This approach takes the damages/repairs out of the picture and makes it about non-payment of rent (usually a slam dunk for eviction).I would avoid a list as it only invites argument.

By gathering applications and holding them you are inviting a fair housing complaint.

Plus I going to string some lights to affect the atmosphere.

I want to try using AirBnB or FRBO to rent living space to corporate customers at a rate lower than extended stay hotels and by providing an atmosphere closer to a real home.

@Stephen E. thanks for the input; Invitation Homes, the rental arm of Blackstone that is snapping up single families is the biggest competitor here in the rental space.

In addition to keeping on top of repairs (it's a very old house), I think my commitment to keeping up with maintenance creates an atmosphere in which the tenants are less likely to destroy the place.

We could also give our tenants each one or two invite a friend coupons so their friends (who are not our tenants) would get a slightly smaller discount on a storage unit.Naturally we would extend the offer to all our tenants, but I would expect it to get the most play amongst the students .... though I do have a tenant who rents on of our storage spaces now as he is recently divorced and has downsized from a house.I'm sure I'll come up with more ideas as I carry the idea around, but this is what I have to-date.BTW:  Nothing wrong with public schooling ... that pretty much all we have here.