re: Renting My House

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.