Already using the tenant screening and forms!

Do you gather this criteria from a database company or another source, or are these criteria that you screen for when you get callers to call in on your ads/signs.

I live in Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley, and not unlike the OC, my affluent pocket is on it's way to recovery. . .Whereas 15 minutes away is the barrio/ghetto with blighted areas and crack houses. . .

Otherwise: we are seeing a lot of buyers jumping on one property but not all agents or buyers can perform so... screen very carefully.

So even though those are nice numbers, they are not realistic to what HUD pays out, only a maximum amount.I use the MLS, or a local agency that places rental tenants, and I use them to place tenants for me, because in case you have been under a rock, prospective tenants have a LOT more rights and the process to screen is crazier than ever, I outsource it, AND the liability.

I'm glad that you answered that you're looking in Southern California (and yeah, that is a harder market to crack) but without a bit more specific information about what you want, it's going to make it harder for people to get you those properties you want to find.

Good hinges, locks, hasps, I'd suggest covering windows with bars or heavy screening with expanded steel.

We purchased our first two rental properties and have one of them leased (the other rehab just finished and we are currently screening tenants).

After my son graduated then I took the rental license and hired a PM to find the tenant do all the screening.

(poor advertisement= longer vacancys) They also screen the tennants.