Who to trust? After conducting numerous inspections, this question involuntarily arises for every real estate owner. All potential tenants try to sway the owner to their side. However, how to understand which of them only pretends to be a decent person, and who really is? Not all of us have doctorates in psychology and know physiognomy, so we will have to cope somehow on our own. Don't worry, we won't leave you to your own devices! We suggest that you check the reliability and integrity of the tenants together.
How to determine to whom to rent an apartment
We have collected the most important stages of checking the reliability of a potential landlord and laid them out in chronological order, so that after passing each stage, you can weed out people who are definitely not suitable for you:
- everything starts with a personal meeting. Organize a viewing of the apartment and observe the behavior of your guests. Caring for someone else's property is always an important nuance, so if someone is going to trample on your light carpets with dirty shoes, you should immediately drive this scoundrel to the neck. It is also worth asking the tenant about his plans for real estate, about the presence of pets and a stable job. Immediately indicate your attitude towards pets, but don't be in a hurry to refuse cooperation, because pet-friendly landlords often receive higher earnings, and tenants with animals are more neat and responsible;
- data verification extremely important in any real estate transactions. In this case, we are interested in passport data, credit history and the presence of legal proceedings, in particular, related to real estate;
- checking references can be useful not only when hiring an employee, but also when choosing a tenant. If a person already has previous experience of living in a rented apartment, you can take the contacts of the homeowners and find out from them whether there were any problems, conflict situations and whether they were satisfied with the cooperation in general;
- insist on signing the lease. It clearly establishes the rights and obligations of the parties, and therefore protects each of them. Take a responsible approach to the preparation of this document, because it is allowed by you mistakes can turn passive income into just as much stress.
When choosing a tenant, you should trust your intuition, the facts and experience of your predecessors, and when choosing a real estate agency, you should trust international recognition and the status of the #1 agency in Ukraine and Europe.
