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I think you need to think hard before considering moving forward.. especially if you are feeling desparate to get it rented out. Another month of lost rent is nothing comparing to having the wrong person move in.
Can't get real details on a credit report now either, as a LL that works out of the house I am now locked out of major details.
Bad place to be in as a landlord.
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Originally Posted by wireyourworld
Now THAT is a good idea. I could take the $850 as security and have them still owe me two months rent? Hmmm.
Bad idea.
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Originally Posted by sj08054
I think you need to think hard before considering moving forward.. especially if you are feeling desparate to get it rented out. Another month of lost rent is nothing comparing to having the wrong person move in.
Excellent advice. Working from a desperate position isn't a good place to be in, particularly considering the problems you've already had in the past with bad tenants.
You need to get organized so you can get a credit report on potential tenants. Good luck!
Oh I can get a sort of credit report, but the new laws keep me from getting the details. The site inspection law that I just found out about. I can get a score and approval or disapproval based on my set parameters, but not details without site inspection. And I'm unclear if I'd pass a site inspection, I've heard that I need a separate entrance to the lockable home office, but I'm not sure if that just means I need to put a keyed lock on the spare room door that is my office, or if it has to be an outside entrance. New lock I can do.
I am uncertain about the whole thing. We shall see. I will call her prior to me driving to see if they are still planning on meeting with me, and if so I will call the guy that saw the house yesterday and see if I can light a fire under his butt. If I'm going up there anyway and his wife gets out of work late she can see the house tonight if they are still interested, and submit their application.
Why don't you use Experian Connect. Create a connection and wait until she pay for and share her report with you.
Never heard of that, looks interesting. Of course, this tenant is also technologically deficient. Not even an email address. I don't know how anyone can get through life like that.
You know, I've had so many people take my application, never to return, that it would not surprise me in the slightest to find they were landlords, or landlord flunkies, just stealing my paperwork to copy for themselves.
I also just found this http://www.nlihc.org/doc/701-704-Public-Law-111-22.pdf (broken link) And I wonder if these folks were given 90 days, or if someone is giving them the run around and they don't know their rights. I'll find out, I printed this out to take with me.
Just domestic stuff for her, marriage, divorce, support, that kinda thing. Nothing creepy though she seems to have had alot of bad boyfriends. And I don't know anything about this fiance yet. Well I'm heading up there now, will get it over with.
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