The Definitive Guide To Posting Housing Rentals On Craigslist

Screening tenants well is critically important to your real estate success. It's the foundation of maximizing cash flow while minimizing headaches. But, before you can screen a tenant, you need them to apply to live in your rental. Before that, you need to get their attention and pique their interest by marketing your rental. Before 1995, this article would have talked about newspaper ads and short phrases to use in order to minimize character counts and therefore costs (w/d 3/2...). However...
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What Are Some of the Best Tools for Receiving Rent?

It's the first of the month and rent is due. How do you get it? There are many options and it's hard to go wrong. So try a couple different ones that make the most sense to you and see how it goes because you can always change it later. I broke this into 3 different groups. Face-to-Face is the hardest, but helps set the stage for the other two. Semi-automated is where a lot of landlords start out. It does require some effort, but if you don't have many rentals, it's definitely OK. The thi...
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