Ron K.
Choosing between two qualified tenants
Hi All,Need to chose between two couples, one are lawyers who offered to pay more the other a couple with two very young kids, both highly qualified. With the first I'm worried I'll have to be on call for every littl...
Danielle Davenport
SB6 And Adaptive Reuse - Getting Top Dollar for your Asset
ADAPTIVE REUSEWhat is there to know?Urban centers, suburban regions, and rural areas grapple with a significant deficiency in affordable housing. Simultaneously, the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled wit...
Theodore Tasoulas
Listing yourself or using an agent
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 ...
Francesca S.
How to compare lending institutions?
2 Questions about loan applications !1. I understand that I should compare numerous lending institutions and agents. Does that mean I fill out all their full credit applications (not just the short pre-qualification a...
Victoria S.
Placing a renter in your house
if you don't use a property management company how do you guys place renters in your house? Where do you advertise your house? How do you make sure they will be good tenants?
Anthony Angotti
Divorce and Tenant Credit
Hey Everyone,How do you deal with applicants that have good indicators in everywhere but the credit score because of an ongoing divorce. My gut says....your criteria is your criteria, but the applicant has the appeara...
Denise Holder
How do I check credit and background?
Hello!
I have my first tenants, I'm to the point where I need to check their backgrounds and credit. How do I do it? I have their ssn's, thought I could do it, but it does identity checks to make sure it is them. H...
Anthony Wick
Pandemic Causing Separations?
I don't know about anybody else, but I am getting a huge number of "about to be single" applicants for my vacancies. Way more than I would usually get. Several saying they are getting a divorce, or just plain leaving ...
Kyle Mccaw
Tenant Application Fraud is a Fact of Life.
Rental fraud is a growing problem in the real estate market. According to Snappt's Top Twenty Fraudulent Cities for 2022, the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro area has the third highest fraud rate in the nation, with 13....
Cassandra Olivier
Pick the best from the worst?? or wait till someone better comes along??
We are tying to get someone to move in by the 15th. We have numerous applicants, none of which are knights in shinning armor. Should we rent to one of the applicants or wait and leave the house vacant until the "perfe...