Tip: Get that reference from next to last landlord. Current landlord may be biased. Bad tenant they'll say is good to get them off their hands. Good tenant they may get a so-so reference because landlord don't want to lose that tenant. Second to last landlord has nothing to gain or lose by the reference so it's more likely to be reliable.
I have a great landlady. I live in a small town so everybody knows everybody. I was given a list of contractors to call at the same time that we did the walk through. The house is quite old, so maintenance is increasing. I don't know how much work is involved , but I imagine the learning curve is steep. finding good tenants and good contractors.
If you're a Mom & Pop company or just a small time Landlord use a local professional screening service . Collect the application from the Tenant yourself . Review it yourself first . If you know its a no/go call the tenant prospect and tell them your sorry but the application was declined . If it's good you take it to the screening service . Call the Tenant and tell them they need to go there to pay the application fee directly to the service and provide I.D. and everything else they may need . That's what I do and it works great .
@@olsonlr Smaller property management companies and profesional screening services offering background checks . I found a smaller property management company that does mine for $35.00 an application and now I have them do the lease signings for an additional small fee . The big one is the credit check . I want to know that they have good active credit , they have a good steady income and they pay their bills on time .
Few employers will actually give out private information such as income. I know I wouldn't if someone asked about one of my employees. In this legislative environment, the only way to ensure not getting in trouble with the law is to not say anything at all. Your best bet is to ask for a previous tax return. But then again, good luck with that.
It's important to know if your tenants have been evicted from other properties. If they have, chances are they won't be a good fit for your property. Aside from that, you should also conduct background checks such as criminal records, financial, and references. These will tell you a lot about a person. Of course, you wouldn't want to have someone who has criminal records or nasty attitude who can't take care of your property well. If you don't do thorough screening, who knows you get another Jeffrey Dahmer renting your property.
Brandon...Righteous Video, Article and Diagram of how to screen for better tenants! Going to try to print out the diagram and put it on my board. Thanks!
*I own my own home now but when I was a renter, I actually was evicted because I refused to pay another dime in rent to my deadbeat landlord who told me he would deal with a small bug problem. His idea of doing that was to leave a can of raid bug spray on the floor. Nope, hell NO. Took me to court, he lost. So what is your thoughts about slumlords trying to screw the tenant over?*
How did the court rule in your favor? You must be leaving out some details like what the lease says, local laws, when the infestation was detected, actual written communication with your landlord, etc...
If you move in a home and the bugs were not there within 30 days of moving in, you or one of your visitors brought the bugs there. It’s your responsibility to get rid of them not the landlord.
1:00 "be sure that none of your standards are discriminatory towards the PROTECTED classes" it's very interesting to me that he specifically says this to the "protected" classes. As if to suggest if it's not protected then it's not an issue because risk of jail time is not as big a threat
@@SreysrosTakeo race, religion, national origin, color, familial status, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), and disability… However, you also need to be aware of any additional protected classes in your local jurisdiction (your state or municipality). For instance, in some cities “students” are a protected class, such as in Madison, WI. In other areas, “source of income” is a protected class, which is a fancy way of saying that you can’t deny someone simply because they have a section 8 voucher.
What does he mean “ making sure this strict standard is not discriminated against protected class “ 3x income No eviction record Good reference from landlord These are for everyone to answer to right? How can we go to jail just setting the standard up ?
The perfect landlord doesn't put his shit on UA-cam. I use the term "internet compromised" for lanlords who get too personal these days. The ones who screen financially are ruling out SAFE tenants and replacing them with risks. If someone has no criminal record that should be sufficient.
Your answer is dumb. Personally, I could care less if the tenant has some minor criminal things going on, I would care a lot more if they have a horrible credit score or no money and can’t pay my rent. What they do on their own time is their business, as long as it doesn’t put me at risk, but I want my money!
Criminals can put you at risk with multiple issues. One going to jail 2 having fines which if it comes down to rent or fines well no one wants to go to jail. 3 a person who is involved in criminal activity is at risk and putting anyone around their home at risk. Example bad person who lives in your house goes and does a bad thing, bad people know where bad person lives. Now bad people come to shoot up bad persons home who's in it? Them, you, their family, a month later new tenants? This is real in certain cities. I want good credit and no criminals. My mom has rented all her life, never ever been evicted but she burned her rented house down to the ground. True story... no evictions but has an arson charge of some sort.
It also unfairly rules out many disabled people who don't even get 2x the rent in income, but who have no expenses, don't pay taxes, get supplemental benefits, and who get support from the city if they fall behind in rent. Not only that, their disability money can't be touched up to $750.00 a month so they can pay their rent easily. A landlord who refuses to see this is not being consistent with a desire to find financially secure tenants.
A. it doesn't "unfairly" rule out many disabled people. Your suggestion that somehow being disabled == no expenses is AT BEST naive. The idea that somehow just because you qualify for disability you won't have a car, a phone, internet, utilities and numerous other discretionary and non discretionary payments is laughable. I mean seriously, name me one expense held by an abled person that couldn't reasonably be held by a disabled person? There's basically explict work stuff like I guess gas money to get to work, though not gas money generally just "to get to work" This is basically like saying somehow if you retire, your expenses go down and that's just not the case. There is nothing about NOT having a job that makes life cheaper. In fact arguably, being engaged in behavior which restricts spending for a large portion of the day probably drives down expenses. Disabled people are likely to spend more time watching shopping channels, not less, more time on amazon, not less.
Do you like having your tax dollars go to pay for housing for people these "picky" landlords refuse to rent to? Their power trip costs YOU a lot of money. In fact, the government could rent to everyone at a slight profit and cure homelessness overnight. Private housing should not exist. It's inherently predatory. Alternatively, these lnadlords should contribute to housing the homeless they create with their screening processes. If they don't do this, congress will.
ray ur really dumb and u probally dont know shit from peanutbutter. many landlords have their lifesavings tied up in the house they're renting so yahh screen the shit out of tenants or they will destroy ur property. how would u like to work your ass off and not get paid at weeks end???? let alone a months pay and thousands in dept cause some pos destroyed ur house ??? ive had tenants steal carpet, copper pipes , sinks and toilets. not to mention rent not being paid plus it takes 90days to eviction so take 3months × 700dollars = 2100 dollars. so fuck off with ur shit talk. besides we know u was talking out of ur ass cuz ur mouth knew better.
@@rgs1628 I have no entitlement I've never missed rent and will be buying a condo. I ran an apartment building with my late mom for many years. I'm a good tenant. The problem with blanket screening is it costs a fortune and they wind up housed anyway. #cancelrent says they didn't screen so well anyway.
Tip: Get that reference from next to last landlord. Current landlord may be biased. Bad tenant they'll say is good to get them off their hands. Good tenant they may get a so-so reference because landlord don't want to lose that tenant.
Second to last landlord has nothing to gain or lose by the reference so it's more likely to be reliable.
LOL my next-to-last landlord was 1986 in Manhattan. I grew up in that plce.
That is a good one ! Thank you !
Thank you for this. A bad tenant can really sour even the best Real estate investment
I have a great landlady. I live in a small town so everybody knows everybody. I was given a list of contractors to call at the same time that we did the walk through. The house is quite old, so maintenance is increasing. I don't know how much work is involved , but I imagine the learning curve is steep. finding good tenants and good contractors.
If you're a Mom & Pop company or just a small time Landlord use a local professional screening service . Collect the application from the Tenant yourself . Review it yourself first . If you know its a no/go call the tenant prospect and tell them your sorry but the application was declined . If it's good you take it to the screening service . Call the Tenant and tell them they need to go there to pay the application fee directly to the service and provide I.D. and everything else they may need . That's what I do and it works great .
I didn't know there was such a service. who are they and how can I find a local one please
@@olsonlr Smaller property management companies and profesional screening services offering background checks . I found a smaller property management company that does mine for $35.00 an application and now I have them do the lease signings for an additional small fee . The big one is the credit check . I want to know that they have good active credit , they have a good steady income and they pay their bills on time .
Few employers will actually give out private information such as income. I know I wouldn't if someone asked about one of my employees. In this legislative environment, the only way to ensure not getting in trouble with the law is to not say anything at all. Your best bet is to ask for a previous tax return. But then again, good luck with that.
It's important to know if your tenants have been evicted from other properties. If they have, chances are they won't be a good fit for your property. Aside from that, you should also conduct background checks such as criminal records, financial, and references. These will tell you a lot about a person. Of course, you wouldn't want to have someone who has criminal records or nasty attitude who can't take care of your property well.
If you don't do thorough screening, who knows you get another Jeffrey Dahmer renting your property.
Brandon...Righteous Video, Article and Diagram of how to screen for better tenants! Going to try to print out the diagram and put it on my board. Thanks!
You won't go to jail for discrimination. Discrimination is a civil liability. Not endorsing discrimination, correcting misinformation.
*I own my own home now but when I was a renter, I actually was evicted because I refused to pay another dime in rent to my deadbeat landlord who told me he would deal with a small bug problem. His idea of doing that was to leave a can of raid bug spray on the floor. Nope, hell NO. Took me to court, he lost. So what is your thoughts about slumlords trying to screw the tenant over?*
How did the court rule in your favor? You must be leaving out some details like what the lease says, local laws, when the infestation was detected, actual written communication with your landlord, etc...
If you move in a home and the bugs were not there within 30 days of moving in, you or one of your visitors brought the bugs there. It’s your responsibility to get rid of them not the landlord.
1:00 "be sure that none of your standards are discriminatory towards the PROTECTED classes" it's very interesting to me that he specifically says this to the "protected" classes. As if to suggest if it's not protected then it's not an issue because risk of jail time is not as big a threat
Who are the protected class anyway ? If you don’t mind sharing .
@@SreysrosTakeo race, religion, national origin, color, familial status, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), and disability… However, you also need to be aware of any additional protected classes in your local jurisdiction (your state or municipality). For instance, in some cities “students” are a protected class, such as in Madison, WI. In other areas, “source of income” is a protected class, which is a fancy way of saying that you can’t deny someone simply because they have a section 8 voucher.
3x monthly rent today in California is 90k/yr
What does he mean “ making sure this strict standard is not discriminated against protected class “
3x income
No eviction record
Good reference from landlord
These are for everyone to answer to right? How can we go to jail just setting the standard up ?
Great info
Blew my mind
KITTY!
The perfect landlord doesn't put his shit on UA-cam. I use the term "internet compromised" for lanlords who get too personal these days. The ones who screen financially are ruling out SAFE tenants and replacing them with risks. If someone has no criminal record that should be sufficient.
ray u sound like u live rent free in mommy's basement.
Your answer is dumb. Personally, I could care less if the tenant has some minor criminal things going on, I would care a lot more if they have a horrible credit score or no money and can’t pay my rent. What they do on their own time is their business, as long as it doesn’t put me at risk, but I want my money!
Criminals can put you at risk with multiple issues. One going to jail 2 having fines which if it comes down to rent or fines well no one wants to go to jail. 3 a person who is involved in criminal activity is at risk and putting anyone around their home at risk. Example bad person who lives in your house goes and does a bad thing, bad people know where bad person lives. Now bad people come to shoot up bad persons home who's in it? Them, you, their family, a month later new tenants? This is real in certain cities. I want good credit and no criminals.
My mom has rented all her life, never ever been evicted but she burned her rented house down to the ground. True story... no evictions but has an arson charge of some sort.
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3 times the monthly rent rate in income? hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha uhhmmmm hahahahahahahahahahahaha
That's funny.
That is actually standard....
It also unfairly rules out many disabled people who don't even get 2x the rent in income, but who have no expenses, don't pay taxes, get supplemental benefits, and who get support from the city if they fall behind in rent. Not only that, their disability money can't be touched up to $750.00 a month so they can pay their rent easily. A landlord who refuses to see this is not being consistent with a desire to find financially secure tenants.
3 times is industry standard
A. it doesn't "unfairly" rule out many disabled people. Your suggestion that somehow being disabled == no expenses is AT BEST naive. The idea that somehow just because you qualify for disability you won't have a car, a phone, internet, utilities and numerous other discretionary and non discretionary payments is laughable.
I mean seriously, name me one expense held by an abled person that couldn't reasonably be held by a disabled person? There's basically explict work stuff like I guess gas money to get to work, though not gas money generally just "to get to work"
This is basically like saying somehow if you retire, your expenses go down and that's just not the case. There is nothing about NOT having a job that makes life cheaper.
In fact arguably, being engaged in behavior which restricts spending for a large portion of the day probably drives down expenses.
Disabled people are likely to spend more time watching shopping channels, not less, more time on amazon, not less.
"Protected classes", so much for "all men are created equal".
Do you like having your tax dollars go to pay for housing for people these "picky" landlords refuse to rent to? Their power trip costs YOU a lot of money. In fact, the government could rent to everyone at a slight profit and cure homelessness overnight. Private housing should not exist. It's inherently predatory. Alternatively, these lnadlords should contribute to housing the homeless they create with their screening processes. If they don't do this, congress will.
ray ur really dumb and u probally dont know shit from peanutbutter. many landlords have their lifesavings tied up in the house they're renting so yahh screen the shit out of tenants or they will destroy ur property. how would u like to work your ass off and not get paid at weeks end???? let alone a months pay and thousands in dept cause some pos destroyed ur house ??? ive had tenants steal carpet, copper pipes , sinks and toilets. not to mention rent not being paid plus it takes 90days to eviction so take 3months × 700dollars = 2100 dollars. so fuck off with ur shit talk. besides we know u was talking out of ur ass cuz ur mouth knew better.
what about people who also refuse to pay the government?
are they allowed to be homeless? and if not, why should anyone pay exactly?
Aa Glad
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Talk about a sense of entitlement. Completely out of touch with reality.
@@rgs1628 I have no entitlement I've never missed rent and will be buying a condo. I ran an apartment building with my late mom for many years. I'm a good tenant. The problem with blanket screening is it costs a fortune and they wind up housed anyway. #cancelrent says they didn't screen so well anyway.