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Originally Posted by ScizzMoney
I had a couple rental properties, now I'm down to just one. Every time I would be looking for a tenant I would only get ones that I could creep on facebook. Generally you can search for them with their phone number or an email address they provide you. Might seem creepy and wrong, but, I have weeded out people that seem or portray the party lifestyle, drama queens, etc. I haven't had a shitty tenant in a few years. DO NOT RENT TO SINGLE MOTHERS. They attract drama like crazy, and as much as they claim to be independent, they rely on that child support money and child tax credit (I know there are exceptions). Also, I wouldn't allow pets, you can still smell the little fuckers after people have moved out.
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Sorta of agree to that comment. Rented to a woman who was divorce and after first month she stop paying rent. Took several months just to have her kick out. In the end when she was moving out give me some sob story and we are horrible people for doing this for weak and defendless woman like her. Sorry you didn't pay rent you don't get to live at my place.
Also I would never ever rent to students, more specifically international students especially from China. I been for a lot of open house and those that were rented to students were pretty much destroy. A few units rent to Chinese international students were so bad even the real estate agent is embarrassed to show us the unit. Smells like a garbage dump, there are bags of garbage in the kitchen (not just one bag and BAGS!) Toliet smells shit, washroom walls have moles growing on them, walls were chew up by the dogs, hardwood floor had this sticky and greasy feel to it and is startch up, stove is cover is this grease burnt oil. I would said it would like at least 50k to fix up unit.
I used to rent my basement suite to a Chinese international student as well. From the look of things they haven't done any vacuuming for a couple of months and when the move out my mom had to throw the mattress out coz there were blood stains all over it(yuck). The Kitchen didn't do too well either we had to get a new stove coz the old one is pretty much destroy.
My advice talk to them, do a background check and credit check. I had a potential tenant who looks great of paper makes 80k a year single professional male. But one look at his credit score prof otherwise. He had to pay for child support, own a bunch of credit card debt so if he loses his job he is done. There is another couple who I rented out to before and they were great. The guy just got a working Visa and he is from Mexico and his wife is going to school. Sure they don't have much but by chatting with them you could tell they are very responsible, not the partying kind. And I have no issue with them with the time they are renting at all. Not even a call form them.