Buying A Home
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Landlords - Finding a Renter through a REA
For those who are landlords, what avenue did you find your renter?
We do not want to use a property manager. We have all of the resources necessary to manage the property ourselves.
We would, however, like some help in finding a renter. Has anyone used a real estate office to do the search for a renter? Do they go through the background check and provide information to us, or would we have to do that on our own?
I appreciate any feedback you can give.
Re: Landlords - Finding a Renter through a REA
We listed the house in local newspapers. Once we had someone serious about leasing we had them fill out an application so that we could check their job history etc but we used a website to do the credit and background check. You can set it up that you pay for the checks or the prospective tenant pays.
We also liked because this way, we didn't have access to their SS#s or anything like that.
https://www.mysmartmove.com/
For our two out of state rental properties, DH does always list them with a reputable REA.
They coordinate showings, collect the paper work to forward to us, and do the background/credit checks DH asks for. The listings always clearly state that the fees are the responsibility of the prospective tenant, so it doesn't cost us anything and it weeds out people who aren't serious and/or couldn't really afford the rent. It's never been a problem and we've always found quality tenants that way.
We list all our rentals on Craiglist and sometimes in local newspaper. We do our own background checks thru tenantalert.com
We listed on Craigslist and had serious renters fill out a rental application. We then entered the information into an online credit and background website. Got the results back 3 biz days later. Everything was good and we mat to have them sign the lease and provide security deposit.