My tenants are always seniors (its all the U allows to live off campus) and leave after one term and I always state in the lease that it does not renew.If you do not collect at least the deposit upfront and the tenant flakes out and doesn't move in as promised you're left with no money in hand to help with recourse.If the parents want to know why they have to sign so far in advance its simply supply and demand. 

I've kept hearing stories of these types of "mentors" or courses for sales or real estate and then they often to lead to more courses that you have to pay for to get more "secrets" or contacts etc. with promises of riches.

I was curious if you were able to find anything promising when you came out here?

Well I was researching screening companies and came across this website offering fake rental references, just thought I would let people know:https://www.paladindeception.c...Anyway, I was hoping to find a service that would handle the actual verbal verification of income/employment and landlord references.  

If the new people found seem promising, could we just end the current lease & sign a completely new lease with them so we have someone staying longer than just the last few months of her lease?

We had an attempt.. we got an e mail from a Vendor that was fake saying they changed bank accounts and please send funds to our new account.. any one who changes accounts is a HUGE red flag..  

Then I would google up one of those sites that allow you to start a trading account and use fake money, almost like an online game.

Thanks for the post, helps a ton. 100+ responses, rented out within a week, a very promising way of securing tenants.

The initial glacé at the market wasn’t promising with our low inventory so it’s something I will just be keeping my ear to the ground on until a few months before the lease term is up.

There's a property I'm looking at now that is currently rented out to two different tenants, one on the main floor, and one in the basement.I've been looking pretty hard for a property that can rent out the basement and is in my budget, so this looks pretty promising to me.