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Chasing good prospective tenants
When you see a good prospective tenant, after talking to them you get a good feeling, but before they have filled out the application...
Do any of you, "chase" them? in order to get them to apply? Here is an escalating list of chasing options, where would you stop...
(Note 2-4 would be contingent on them qualifying)
1. Follow up with a phone call the next day
2. Offer to apply application fee to first months rent
3. Offer to buy them something they mentioned when walking around the house (i.e. Ceiling fan)
4. Offer to include a refrigerator if it was mentioned that they don't have one.
Other options?
Reason I am asking is we are getting good prospective tenants calling, however a few have "found something" before we got our chance to show it and I am wondering if the other landlords are doing something to close the deal.
Maybe that is a better question, how do you close?