Saturday, April 11, 2015

Renting Process: Screening and Monitoring

When renting a property, renter will have both bad and good rental experience. Bad experience is happen when the tenants slow in paying their rent and negligent with the property. Otherwise, a good rental experience is felt when the tenants pay their bill on time, keep the property clean, and following the lease agreement. As a renter, it will be impossible to engage in the tenants’ daily life. Therefore, it’s felt like impossible to avoid a bad rental experience. However, as everything in this world, nothing could be avoided but minimizing is probability.

There is a complicated but the best way to minimize the risk of getting a bad tenant. It is called as tenants screen process. This process requires a detailed application, referrals from former landlords, and references from people that are not the tenant family, a background check, and a security deposit. With this, a renter will make a bigger chance to get a good tenant.

Good at first may not last long. Consequently, a monitoring should take a place. Most people will behave when knowing that another person that has an authority watch them. It will take less effort when the renter place is not too far from the property, else it will take more effort.

There are some good ways to monitoring tenants that will make them feel like being watched but cannot complain any further. First, it will be good if the renter come without a call ahead while bringing some cake or things to discuss. Play a role of easy going or warm-hearted landlord. In this case tenants cannot refuse frequent visit from the owner. The other way is to hire a spray exterminator frequently. The owner has a point in wanting no pest in the property and has a good preview of what the property looks like in tenants’ hand. Then a complicated work may be considered, such as doing a background check to make sure that the tenants tell the truth about themselves.


A bad rental experienced is impossible to be avoided, but not in minimizing the chance. Tenants screen process is the first step to minimize this chance. Then this first step is continued by a good way of monitoring. When all go well, it is possible to have a bigger chance in having good tenants.