Your
Investor's Guide on How To SUCCEED in Section 8 Housing Rentals
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Chapter 14 Showing Your Property for Rent How to eliminate non-section 8 callers. How to weed out people who are waisting your time, how to figure out who is not. What to say and what not to say while showing your property. "Okay,
your property is completely rehabbed, you have received several
calls from prospective tenants, and you want to begin showing
the property. What do "The ones without the packet will ask you or tell you the craziest things like, “I have to give my landlord 60 days notice that I am moving so can you hold the property for me?” Yeah, right lady. I’m gonna lose two months of rent waiting for you! I don’t think so! They’re not ready to move and they’re just out wasting landlord’s time..." "Never hold an open house. An open house would be if you called all eight people and told them you are showing the house on Saturday, June 5th at 2:00 p.m. You would probably get your house rented but you more than likely will have to break up 2 or 3 fights. You might as well wear a referee shirt! If there is more than one person who would like to rent your property, be prepared for one of them to say they saw it first, they called you first, etc. Once you make a decision, the person you didn’t pick may want to fight you!..." "If a prospective tenant tells you that they like the property but they want to look at one more and then they’ll call you back, keep showing it. Don’t consider it rented until you have filled out someone’s packet. Hopefully, if she calls you back, you can tell her the good news that the property has already been rented. It’s like a sign I once saw in a car dealership that read, “The car you said you would come back for tomorrow is the car that somebody came back for today!”..." |