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I recently listed a rental and got an offer from someone to pay $250 more per month than what we listed for. I want to be ethical and legal, and haven’t found anything that states otherwise, but wanted to check with a...
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Must a landlord perform background/credit checks on prospective tenants? I use the standard Texas Apartment Association application and on there it does ask about their background but I'm sure many people lie abou...
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Has anyone denied an application that they've already approved? Basically, reversing the approval. I have an applicant that I should have out-front denied based on income, but I approved them and tried justifying it i...
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When I am looking for renters and doing the application process, am I required to send letters to the applicants that I am not renting to with a reason. This is going to be my first time renting. I am not sure after t...
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Hello BP,We recently tried to list our apartments ourselves instead of using an agent, but we could not get enough applicants so we went back to the agent. We spent over a month listed on multiple national sites like ...
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More and more tenants and tenant applicants are quick to perk up and claim "I have a pitbull, it's an emotional support animal" as if they have found some fool proof loophole. Some applicants have as many as 3 pitbull...
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Does anyone have a positive history of leasing to a prospective prospect that doesn't have a social security number? If so, what are safe guards to put in place?
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I am from Texas. When application was made tenant was I am not going to to have my puppy with me so do not need pet fee or application etc.First month and I find a dog in the house which is 50lb. Now she claims it’s a...
http://clickmind.in Bikaner, Which was till now famous for its savories is very shortly going to emerge as a software development city due to the arrival of the Click...
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So I’m a Controller for a small construction firm (>25M) in New York. All construction is limited to essential construction only which effectively put an entire stop on our operations. With the passage of the CARES...