How do you advertise open units?
I've owned my properties for only a few months so I'm learning as I go. I now have some open units that have been cleaned up with flooring replaced, etc. Just a cleanup is needed, so I'm ready to garner interest in them.
Saturday I put a sign out front (3 fourplexes, same location). I also put a Craigslist ad up Monday. So between the 2, I probably have averaged 2-3 calls per day. I don't know if that's good or bad. Ha
I would obviously prefer more, so I took a gander at Craigslist as if I were a prospective renter. I simply searched for the town name in the apartments for rent section. The problem I saw is that there are managers/owners that have TONS of ads for their single location. I mean one had 247 ads, another 167. I know this because I went to the map version of the search.
Now if a renter looks at the map, there isn't a huge difference as they can weed out the "spamming" of ads for single addresses. But if they are looking at the list/thumb/gallery version, my ad is only a needle in a haystack.
So how do you generate interest in your rentals?