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Connie Brzowski guest writes an excellent post, on BiggerPockets Blog, outlining a tenant screening checklist/scoring system. It is simple, but effective as it screens each tenant by the same standards. There is very little room for someone to claim discrimination. I would argue that it also keeps you and I from bending or breaking our own rules because the prospective tenant was nice, had a great sob story, or appears to be well intentioned.
I had several tenants lose their Minnesota Section 8 voucher in 2007. One tenant had 4 kids with a three bedroom Section 8 voucher and another tenant was a single person with a two bedroom voucher. They lost their voucher for one of the following reasons:
I evicted one for non-payment of rent. […]
Being a successful investment real estate owner requires being good at and having a system for rent collection. Unfortunately, I often run into investment property owners that are complaining about how their tenants don’t pay or don’t pay on-time. Despite my best encouragement, they still can’t/won’t take a systematic approach and a […]
If you have tenants, you probably have realized that your definition of clean and the tenant’s is probably vastly different! When a tenant would move out, I would often have to go back in and touch up after even “the best” cleaning efforts of the tenant.
I changed my move-out process recently. I decided […]
“Where can I get leases for tenants” is a question that I get from new investors often. There are many sources from which to get your landlord documents and forms. Many investors will create their own by just downloading the files from the web and modifying them to their needs. While this […]
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