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1. How To Find Good Tenants www.goodmanmanagementteam.com

2. 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. www.goodmanmanagementteam.com

3. Posting in the Right Places 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. 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. www.goodmanmanagementteam.com

4. First Point of Contact (pre-screen) 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 tenantsamongst the rest. 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. www.goodmanmanagementteam.com

5. Rental Property Viewing (in-person screening) 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). 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. www.goodmanmanagementteam.com

6. Rental Application 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. 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. www.goodmanmanagementteam.com

7. Selecting Your 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. 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. www.goodmanmanagementteam.com

8. FOR MORE INFORMATION Gerry Goodman Real Estate Services 3239 E Meadowridge Rd,Orange, CA 92867 Cell : (714)588-3338 Fax : (714)282-2242Email : gerry@gerrygoodman.com http://www.goodmanmanagementteam.com