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Renting My House
Posted on 1/8/18 at 10:57 am
Posted on 1/8/18 at 10:57 am
I just posted my house for rent on Zillow today. I'm attempting to find tenants on my own to avoid paying a real estate agent 1 months rent ($1600).
Any advice to help this process go smoothly?
I'm thinking marketing through Zillow, Faceboook, sign in the yard, and word of mouth. Any other strategies i should use?
Where can I get a reliable lease agreement?
Thanks in advance.
Any advice to help this process go smoothly?
I'm thinking marketing through Zillow, Faceboook, sign in the yard, and word of mouth. Any other strategies i should use?
Where can I get a reliable lease agreement?
Thanks in advance.
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Posted on 1/8/18 at 11:02 am to huntfish26
Use Good photos, clean it and stage the House well.
A well decorated place gets exponentially more interest.
A well decorated place gets exponentially more interest.
Posted on 1/8/18 at 11:07 am to huntfish26
Watermark your photos. Scammers will steal the photos, and relist at cheap rates, using their contact info, trying to get people to send deposits.
I just rented mine - most reasonable leads came off of Zillow. Facebook was a waste of time. Sign in yard - even with rate listed - got a lot of "how much you get?" phone calls.
Pre-screening tenants over the phone before making an appointment to show the house will save you a lot of time. Question them on income, pets, # of people, credit back ground, etc. Tell them up front your required income / credit score / back ground record. People that don't meet that will weed themselves out usually.
I actually got a pretty decent state specific lease from my Insurance Agent. You can also buy them online, get them from local landlord groups, or roll the dice with free ones online. Or, of course, you can get one from an attorney.
Check out biggerpockets forums. lots of good info and forms there.
I just rented mine - most reasonable leads came off of Zillow. Facebook was a waste of time. Sign in yard - even with rate listed - got a lot of "how much you get?" phone calls.
Pre-screening tenants over the phone before making an appointment to show the house will save you a lot of time. Question them on income, pets, # of people, credit back ground, etc. Tell them up front your required income / credit score / back ground record. People that don't meet that will weed themselves out usually.
I actually got a pretty decent state specific lease from my Insurance Agent. You can also buy them online, get them from local landlord groups, or roll the dice with free ones online. Or, of course, you can get one from an attorney.
Check out biggerpockets forums. lots of good info and forms there.
Posted on 1/8/18 at 11:27 am to huntfish26
Not related to renting it out, but once you have a tenant make sure you walk through the property on a quarterly basis at MINIMUM. You would be amazed at the way some people treat property they don't own.
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:32 pm to ATLdawg25
Yep, go "change the a/c filter" every quarter.
Posted on 1/8/18 at 1:48 pm to huntfish26
I've been at it for over 5 years now... Best thing I've done was join the facebook group "rentprep for landlords" ...FULL of ton of advice... 
Posted on 1/8/18 at 7:55 pm to huntfish26
There's a website called bigger pockets that has a ton of info on it. They also have a podcast that I've learned a lot from. Believe it or not I've got some really good tenants from Craigslist. Just like any of the other sites though do a background check at a minimum and I also suggest the quarterly walk throughs.
Posted on 1/8/18 at 9:33 pm to Bigeasy9
Craigslist, Zillow, and signs.
Posted on 1/8/18 at 10:55 pm to ItzMe1972
Oh yeah, I use Zillow rental manager which can post the listing to several sites very easily. Also saves photos etc so when it comes up for re-leasing I check info and click go.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 8:45 am to huntfish26
Put an ad on craigslist too.
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