All Forum Posts by: Sean Thompson

Bill, we do own both sides. We are buying a single family home next, so we can have a bigger place to raise a family. After that I'm not sure if we will be looking for multi-family rental properties or single family. Probably a combination of both. (Both have pros and cons)

Hey everyone! My wife and have just started looking for tenants to live in half of our duplex once we move out. 

Little backstory: We have been house hacking in our duplex for the last 2 years. We live in one half, and we have a tenant in the other half. We inherited our current tenant and he has been great. However, that means we have never done tenant screening before. 

Here is the problem we have been running into:

We spent over a week preparing the unit for showings by cleaning, decluttering, and fixing minor things. Then we posted the ad on Zillow, Trulia, and Hot Pads. We posted the ad on a Monday, and had lots of calls about the property over the next 5 days. We set it up so that anyone who wanted to look at the property could schedule an appointment for either Saturday or Sunday. We scheduled 13 people to come look at the property. 7 on Saturday, and 6 on Sunday. We cleared both of our schedules and prepared for two days of being very busy.

Only 2 people showed up. 

Two people actually texted us to cancel their showing, but everyone else didn't call, text, email... nothing. We basically sat around the house for two days. 

Is this normal for anyone else? Is there something that we could be doing differently? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We keep telling ourselves that at least it all of the "no-shows" would have been bad tenants anyway, and it saved us the time of having to run full background checks, credit checks, etc. But we still need to find a tenant! Please help!

Hey everyone! My name is Sean Thompson and my wife and I are investors in Kansas City, MO (not to be confused with Kansas City, Kansas. Local people will understand the difference.) I am currently working full time as a Mercedes Technician while my wife is a stay at home mom. We have been house hacking for the last two years, but are looking to buy our first single family home here in the next month. (need more room for when we plan to have more kids). We are currently working on screening tenants for when we move out of our duplex and, once we get settled in our new home, will be looking to find more rental properties.