Property Manager North Hills
Red Flags to Watch Out For
Here are a few red flags to watch out for while you show the apartment. If any of these come up, you should highly reconsider renting to these potential tenants.
- Did other people show up to the apartment than what had been said or indicated during the first phone call or email? Make sure you understand who you are renting to. Each person should submit an application and authorize a background check. You don’t want to allow people living in the apartment that are not on the lease agreement.
- Did the prospective tenant speak negatively about their current or previous landlords? What kinds of complaints were you hearing? Can you validate these complaints with those landlords? It’s often the case that the landlord-tenant relationship deteriorates quite quickly when there are money or behavioral issues at play. Neither of which you want to inherit.
- Is the new tenant in a big hurry to find an apartment/house? Unless there’s a good reason for the rush, such as a sudden job relocation, this could be a sign of a serious problem, such as an eviction at his current rental. Follow up on this by speaking with their current landlord.
- Were the prospective tenant(s) on time for the apartment showing? If they’re late to a showing, will they be late on other things, such as rent payments.
- Were the prospective tenant(s) easy to coordinate with? In a perfect world, your tenant would pay on-time every month and the apartment would never require any maintenance. However, that rarely happens and you’ll need to be able to coordinate with the tenant in the future. Make sure they can be reliable enough should you need to coordinate maintenance in the future.
- Are they criticizing the property? If they’re not even renting yet and complaining, just imagine what it will be like when they’re actually paying money to live in the property. And that’s if you’re lucky. What if they stop paying based on some inconsequential thing?
- Listen to the questions that your prospective new tenants ask. These questions indicate whats important to them and how they prioritize things. Are they asking how to best host a party or if the neighbors are complainers? If so, reconsider.
From: https://www.rentalutions.com
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