The Residential Tenant Application — what to ask
Pre-Screening Your Tenants in 5 Easy Steps
Leave a Comment / Landlording, Real Estate Investing / By Nelda Schulte
Pre-screening your tenants is the best method of ensuring occupants meet your minimum requirements.
Why Pre-Screen Tenants
Let’s say you have advertised your bachelor suite condominium. You check with your condo bylaws and Minimum Housing Standards Act and discover only one person is allowed to live in your suite, and no pets are permitted in the unit.
Your advertising is going well, and you receive a text from an interested potential tenant. You set up a showing and drive out to meet them. During the showing, the applicant says he is looking for a cheap condo where five of his taxi drivers can live together. They will be sleeping in shifts, and one of them has two birds, another has a cat.
You’ve just wasted 90 minutes of your time and a tank of gas.
Setting minimum tenant pre-screening criteria and pre-screening your tenants will save you time and effort and reduce your frustration.
