Six Questions You Should Ask
Meet all parties before accepting applications. We talked about that. There are six questions here that you should have on your lease. These are important.
1. Move in date desired. You want to know when that is. Don't take an application from somebody that wants to move in five months from now. You're both wasting time.
2. Have you ever refused to pay rent? Make them say yes or no.
3. Have you ever been or are now being evicted? This is so important. You want to know if they've been evicted or are they being evicted. Maybe they're being evicted right now from their current place and they ran over to you to try and apply for your place before it shows up on social records.
Before you pull your credit record and all that, if it hasn't shown up on social records you may miss it. So the inquire is have you ever been or are you being evicted? Make sure you ask it that way. It's on my application which you guys will get, but it's on the handout here.
4. Have you ever been convicted of a crime? This is very important.
5. Have you ever filed bankruptcy? Again, this is important.
6. Do you currently or have you in the past had any judgments against you? This is almost asking if they've been evicted again. Obviously an eviction is a legal proceeding, but it's also a judgment. There's all the time a judgment involved. That's the other way it will show up.
Application Fees
Application fees. We have a application fee. I very suggest you payment . payment at least . Otherwise people will fill out applications and waste your time. If you payment or and they're willing to pay that, then you know they're serious. It's a small tiny threshold you ask them to go over.
If there's no charge, "Sure, I'll fill out an application. I'll be happy to." Then you need to go spend to run their credit plus all the time and effort to call people. Make sure you payment an application fee to first cover the fee for running the credit report, but also to isolate the weak from the strong again.
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