All Forum Posts by: Jeff Gates
Jeff Gates has started 23 posts and replied 479 times.
Post: How do you successfully market YOUR property?
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
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- Votes 170
Originally posted by @Jeff Gates:
Is zillow.com charging money now?
The manager told me it will be system wide soon. $2 a day.
Post: Annual Walk throughs, Who Does these anyways?
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
I have the new tenant do this. Then compare this against what the old tenant did when they moved in.
Post: How to evaluate potential renters
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
If you do tenant screening, have both husband and wife checked. As 27% have criminal records.
Post: How do you successfully market YOUR property?
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
Is zillow.com charging money now?
Post: Renting house, how do I do background checks?
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
I use tenantscreeningforlandords.com , they interview the past landlord and call the employer.
Post: Tenant screening beware
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
I do think folks who know they have records run away. That is good!
But what if the money was spent and data was 100% inaccurate?
That is what I am talking about. A service that does not return correct results due to the tenant entering false data.
Originally posted by @Anthony Wick:
@Jeff Gates
I pretty much have no idea what you’re trying to teach us here. Besides a third party credit/background check, I also search my states Criminal Courts. And almost every time, telling people my criteria and letting them know it costs $40 per adult chases people away that have been evicted.
Post: Tenant screening beware
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
No one should misunderstand. This is a USA wide problem, not specific to one state.
Post: Tenant screening beware
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
SSN is only one data point they use. Not the whole data set.
Post: Tenant screening beware
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
Today it was found criminal and eviction results are flawed if applicant enters wrong data. A landlord has no visibility with this issue and the CRA does not care.
This applies to all vendors an all CRA's.
As a landlord, I can only remedy this issue somewhat by having applicants use two different vendors and double up on the background screening. Seems wrong, but it is not.
In theory it can happen twice, but the odds are less. I do not want to rent to applicants with eviction histories and if the screening is flawed I am vulnerable.
I can't cite the actual flaw for fear the tenants will game the system.
Post: Dealing with Tenants who are bringing up laws.
- Investor
- Cathedral City, CA
- Posts 481
- Votes 170
Don't worry this guy. He does not need a lawyer. He needs new tenants. After a lease has expired the contract is automatically a month to month. Give the tenants a 30 days notice carefully, with process server. I say carefully since they feel like they want to fight. If they get a 30 days notice 35 days ahead of vacancy with a process server. They simply move out. If not, you process a 3 days notice for eviction. Then find nice new tenants who are happy.