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How to advertise and find tenants |
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Written by Tim Ballering
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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What are the best ways to find and/or advertise for a tenant?
In late June there was a series of interesting discussion on the ApartmentAssoc at YahooGroups.com email discussion group on this topic as well as proper screening, Section 8 (Rent Assistance) and how to learn more about being a successful landlord.
Because of the interest in the subjects I reformatted the discussions into what hopefully you will find as an easy to read reference tool. Each topic is broken out on its own page. The site allows readers to add comments to help explain things that are not clear or to offer their alternatives.
The words of wisdom are those of a number of owners, as well as my own thoughts. Consider the end result to be a stew that began with these individual thoughts. Just as you cannot distinguish which of the flavors came from the carrots many of the authors comments are not individually identified for ease of reading. Just because it is hard to distinguish the individual ingredients, it would not be as good without all the different flavors/authors. Thanks to John and Elaine Kostecki, Brian Flemming, Josh Unger and Anne for their contributions.
Special thanks to Tom in NJ for kicking the discussions off by asking the question.
Three preferred methods of advertising vacancies today
Advertise on line
(Clcik the bold titles to go to the articles)
Anne comments: I have found that prospective tenants who use computers tend to be better educated and generally better tenants.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 July 2007 )
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