Tenant Screening For Rental Properties
Dixie Living Property Management has developed some of the most effective marketing plans for metro Atlanta rental properties. We keep our prospective tenant funnels full, including referrals from existing tenants. However, all of that is of no value if the wrong tenant ends up in your home. From nonpayment of rent to damages and premature vacancy, there are a number of very costly problems that can result from lax tenant screening and acceptance procedures.
Dixie Living Property Management will handle every facet of non-desirable tenant removal for you, but our goal is to never have a need to do so. Avoidance through exhaustive tenant screening and selection procedures is how we keep our homeowners happy and profitable as rental property owners.
Some prospective tenants will contact us via email or with a form on your homes web page at our site. Others will call us. Prior to an office visit and application processing, well normally have a conversation on the telephone. It will not be detailed, but we begin the tenant screening process with this conversation. We ask questions that help us to legally determine if they're a possible candidate for a more exhaustive screening process. Some never get past this phone call simply because our questions determine that they're not suitable for financial or other reasons.
We facilitate the tenant application process with our online application form, as this makes it more convenient and retains more prospective tenant applicants early in the process. Whether they use the online form or come into our office to fill one out, we have developed a very thorough application to ferret out any potential problems and filter out potentially problematic tenants.
The information on the tenant application is extensive, as Dixie Living Property Management uses it to check not only the prospective tenants credit history, but also their past rental history and rent payment habits. We call past landlords and personal references. Criminal background checks can also be included as part of the screening process.
A process this thorough does take a little time, however weve found that this level of scrutiny provides a great return on our investment of time and staff involvement. Our homeowner clients experience some of the lowest vacancy, credit loss, and tenant damage rates in the area.