Self Service Showings

[Frank Rizzo]

I own 3 properties, and have been paying an agent to handle showings and fill my vacancies. The one month broker fee is eating into my profits and is proving to be unsustainable. I recently read "landlording on autopilot", Mike Bulter suggests allowing potential tenants to view his properties alone using a lock box, or in my case key pad lock entry, my units all have keypads that I can program one time entry codes. This system sounds like a good idea in theory. But does it really work well? Do potential tenants destroy the property? steal? What about liability? what if someone gets injured or attached while in my property? Does anyone have experience with this set up?