Hello all, I have a few rental properties that I manage myself. I have been hearing from some people that I should set up some criteria to base my decisions on. The criteria I have come up with is income must be three...

I have a applicant who's pretty eager to rent my place because several other places have already turned him down in favor of other applicants. I think the applicant has been looking for at least two months since he ha...

I know that folks on this forum always recommend (rather strongly) requiring a security deposit along with applications for a rental property.  (This is the deposit for the application, *not* the deposit for actually ...

If you could only ask a tenant 5 questions before committing to rent to them what would the questions be?  

I've got two vacancies coming up in the next two months and as of right now I don't have any formal written tenant screening criteria. My price range tends to attract a decent number of tenants with bad histories (cri...

I’ve never charged for an application, I use 3rd party, such as apartments.com. I’d like to start charging for applications, and screening myself, any suggestions of best way to do that?

I currently have a tenant being evicted for none payment. This tenant is acquired and is clearly using illegal drugs. Now I have another mobile home for sale in the park. during my application vetting I noted that the...

A tenant disclosed to me that the reason they are moving is because there is mold and mildew in the place they currently live. She claims that it has damaged her furniture and caused her health problems. While I sympa...

Hey all,So, I am marketing a few vacant apartments currently and I pride myself in the efficiency of that system.Every once in awhile I have these people contact me that I identify as "time-wasters": every time I post...

Hi all, I am new and this is my very first looking for a renter. I am thinking to use Cozy to accept applications (e.g. credit report). One question, how do I do prescreening with Cozy? Do I do pre-screening off-Cozy ...