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How To Find Good Tenants
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• Finding the perfect tenant can often be like
  finding a needle in a haystack, especially if you
  lack the experience and qualified knowledge of a
  property management company. To find good
  tenants, you need time, persistence and a lot of
  patience.

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Posting in the Right Places

• To find good tenants, your screening process
  needs to be vigilant from day one. To avoid a lot
  of unnecessary intake of interest from tenants
  you do not want, you need to look and advertise
  on the right places. For example, if you want a
  young family for your tenants in Orange County,
  you do not want to advertise to students.

A good Orange County property management company
will have an entire database that differentiate
depending on who you want to target. That way
your response will be more streamlined depending
on who you want in your Orange County rental
property.
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First Point of Contact (pre-screen)

• Once you start generating interest, which will
  either be by phone or email, you need to have
  prepared relevant questions that will help in
  screening potential tenants in the next stage.
  Usual first stage questions include name, reason
  for moving in, how long they are planning to
  stay, pets etc.

Make sure to mention within the call that you do
a comprehensive background and criminal check as
standard and the minimum income requirement for
your tenants. This will cut away any tenants that
could give you a mountain of problems in the
future and allow you to find good tenants amongst
the rest.
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Rental Property Viewing (in-person screening)

• This is the opportunity to ask any further
  questions and observe the person and how they
  respond face to face. Make sure to answer all
  their questions but also note what they ask, if
  they arrive late and even perhaps walk them to
  their car so you can see how they take care of
  their own vehicle.

These things can be minor insights into how they
will treat your property and rental agreement.
Make sure to mention that if they are interested,
you will need at least two references from their
previous landlord and employer (neither can be a
family a member).
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Rental Application

• Once your potential tenants show enough interest,
  they will want to fill in a rental application
  form. For this, you need to make sure your
  application form is compliant with state
  regulations and that you do not call their
  references or run a background check without
  telling the tenant first.

Furthermore, you cannot accept a form with any
blank spaces absolutely everything needs to be
filled out. This is the last chance to find good
tenants within your pile of forms, so screen
wisely.
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Selecting Your Tenants

• Once you have chosen tenants for your rental
  property, you may be finally finishing the whole
  process or not! Always first call the tenants
  that you have selected prior to calling those you
  have rejected. If those selected actually turn
  you down because they have found property they
  liked better or just changed their minds, you are
  going to have to reassess your other tenants.

The only other option is to overhaul your entire
list and start again, which can be quite common,
if nobody on your current list particularly
appeal to you. This can be the most annoying
aspect of the screening process, and a great
reason to have an Orange County Property
Management company undergo this procedure to take
the stress off your hands.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
Gerry Goodman Real Estate Services 3239 E
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