Finding tenants in San Antonio

[John T.]

Hi all,

I have a 3/2 SFH and will soon be looking for my first tenant. I am remote and will have family look after the house (not a property management company).

In terms of paying someone to find a tenant, it seems I have two options:

1) A real estate agent (the one who helped me buy the place)

2) A tenant locator service (apartmentsnow)

What's the best way to go about this?  Up here in NYC, I just put it on Craigslist and within hours have dozens of people emailing me (which is great!). Not the case down in SA. 

Thanks for your help!

John

[Kristina Modares]

Hi John, I posted my place in a few San Antonio FB groups. The craigslist one and another one called "San Antonio Housing, Rooms, Apartments, Sublets. I had a lot of inquiries and found 2 great tenants this way. It was nice to be able to see their FB profile as well. You'll need to weed out a lot of people though and make sure you tell them you're doing a background check.