This is the THIRD of a Series of Posts for Assisting Reluctant Landlords From Making Common Mistakes!!!

Reluctant Landlords see the $$$ and not the $$$$$$$....they chase the few bucks they will loose if they do not rent their property QUICKLY and have to come out of their pocket for a mortgage payment and they do NOT see the many bucks they will loose if they take the wrong/unscreened residents who stop paying their rent, loose their jobs, or as is the more common case, vacate the property with no notice.

Reluctant Landlords who rely on real estate agents to locate and screen residents fair little better.  Most real estate offices no longer have access to credit screening services as a result of their E&O insurance requirements and manditory site inspections by the screening service.  As support staff has been reduced in many offices, these services have been discontinued and the agents may not know that they no longer have access to these basic tenant screening resources.

Likewise, they rarely have the proper forms for the leasing service.  The lead based paint disclosure for SALES is NOT the same lead based paint disclosure for RENTALS....agents do not know this.  In many states, there are mold disclosure requirements for one or both activities. 

Tenant  move-in inspections may be mandated by state landlord-tenant laws and if they are not followed, claims against the tenants' security deposit may well be forgiven at the end of the lease term.

A month of paying a mortgage versus 3 or 4 months of vacancy in mid-winter or a long drawn-out eviction is not worth the risk of not doing it RIGHT!!

Wallace S. Gibson, CPM * Over 45 years of property management experience to serve you *

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"...to be a Virginian, either by Birth, Marriage, Adoption, or even on one's Mother's side, is an Introduction to any State in the Union, a Passport to any Foreign Country, and a Benediction from the Almighty God...." Anonymous