Property Management - Self Showings

[Jamie Harris]

So we closed on our first rental unit, a triplex in Cincinnati, OH. We've hired a property management company that came well-referred.

They utilize an interesting process for showing rentals to potential tenants. They allow the potential renter to "self-show" the property. Basically, they provide the tenant with the lock-box code and they can view the property unsupervised.

Is this a common practice in property management? Are there better solutions e.g. group showings, that we should suggest to our PMC to implement?

Thanks!

[Patrick L.]

Time for a new property manager, that's just reckless and lazy.  Just wait until the code goes to someone who wants to strip the copper or a squatter that decides to start moving in.   You're paying the property manager for their time, they should arrange showings and be there.