Where do I put my garbage? How do I work the air exchanger? Who can I get TV with? What’s my new address? How do I work the thermostat? Where do I put my Christmas decorations? What day is garbage day? Can I paint my bedroom? What’s your father’s name? How do I clean the […]
Tenants
Tenant Suitability Scale
Tenants are a hard group to judge. There are too many variables to create a rigid scoring system. What if these people owned their own home for 25 years? They likely won’t have a previous landlord to use as a reference. What if this couple just got divorced and that’s why she’s moving out […]
An In-depth Guide to Tenant Reference Checks
I have rented to six Unpleasant and one Awful tenant. This is out of the hundreds of times I have rented our apartments over the last seven years. The thing is, during the screening process I knew four of the six were going to be unpleasant (the unpleasantness of the other two surprised me). And […]