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Guidance For Renting-out Your Property

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Motives are plenty when you are having an idea of renting-out your house. It might be that you want to benefit an income to save money, improve income or to balance your home loan payments. Renting-out a home can be a thankless task as all of us would be doing it at some point of [...]

10 Reasons for Rejecting Tenant Applications

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

A landlord has right to reject prospective tenant application that does not meet their criteria or tenant with unsatisfactory reference from landlords or employer. Some states have laws making it illegal to discriminate tenants on the basis of race, religion, sex, disability, or national origin. It is important to know your parameters when you must [...]

Know Obligations of A Landlord For Renting Out Your Property

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Letting out your property could give you the freedom to move on at a time when selling has become incredibly difficult. Buying a house can itself be an experience of a lifetime. People with larger disposable incomes are contemplating buying a second house. Buying a second home could be for varied reasons say, investment, rent [...]

Tenant Eligible To Recover Cost of Property Maintenance

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

A common point of dispute among many landlords and tenants is maintenance of a rented property. It is the responsibility of the landlord to ensure that the tenanted premises are habitable and safe. Once the tenant moves in, it’s the landlord’s responsibility to repair anything that breaks on the property, from a burned-out light bulb [...]

5 Things You Need To Consider In Tenant Verification

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Tenant Verification plays important and vital role in finding the best tenants for your rental property. You can eliminate your tenant problems by Tenant Verification. Following are five important things you need to consider in tenant verification. Conduct background check for gathering criminal records, employment records and financial records of your tenant. If your potential [...]

Guidelines For Tenant Verification

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Tenant verification ensures a landlord that their tenants are capable of paying rent on time and they are not criminals or troublesome. Tenant Verification plays important and vital role in finding the best tenants for your rental property. Successful Landlords know that tenant verification is the most important task when letting property. Tenant Verification can [...]

Rent Guarantee Insurance For Landlord

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

The household goods and personal belongings represent many years of financial and emotional investment. Therefore, you need to ensure that your house or property and its contents are insured against fire, theft, damage etc. “Rent guarantee insurance” is a form of insurance where, for a relatively small annual fee, landlords can protect against loss of [...]

5 Qualities of a Good Tenant

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Here are five qualities of a Good Tenant Comply with the conditions: Read your rental or lease agreement and comply with condition of rental agreement. Refrain from damaging the premises or from allowing your guests or friends to cause damage. Pay Rent, water and electricity bill in time. Good Reference: A landlord always checks the [...]

Screening Tenants for Renting out Your Apartment

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

While renting your property, you need to ensure that your tenants are qualified for handling or residing in your property. Screening tenants helps you to get qualified tenants and you will get an opportunity to know your tenants better before signing lease or rental agreement. Today renting a property is one of the important sources [...]