So you’ve made the big decision, then. You’ve decided it’s time to go ahead and get into renting out a home for someone else to to take care of. You remember the old days of being a landlord, and how much money you must have spent over the course of that year, and you realize now that you want a piece of that.
Nothing wrong with that. But if you’ve been at it for even a year, you probably have an appreciation for how tricky that can be.
To begin with, you have to make sure that it looks good – that it looks attractive to live in. And then you have to make sure that the rent you’re charging is fair. Even after having gone to all that trouble, there’s still no guarantee that it’s all going to go great. You still have to worry about the tenants.
The tenant is really the trickiest element of the whole equation. The other parts – curb appeal, rent, rental contract, etc. – are relatively easy. They’re static things, not people. They can be dealt with and controlled reasonably well.
But people are different animals entirely. Controlling them is an entirely separate kind of issue. They may not feel that the rent is fair, or they might get into your property, ruin it for a few months to a year, and then leave without fixing anything.
You can obviously get around that by putting the right clauses in the contract, but that doesn’t change how tricky that sort of thing can be.
As the premiere property management company in Arizona, GoRenter absolutely does understand that kind of thing. We understand how tricky those things can be, and that’s why we offer to take care of it for you.
What we can do for you is to help you add to the curb appeal of your property, determine a fair rent, and then screen the tenants until we find the right one for you. We have a vigorous selection process in which tenants have to pass not only a background check, but also a credit check as well as providing satisfactory character references.
It would be easy, of course, to balk at the idea of paying someone to take care of that kind of thing for you. But we’re sure that, if you weigh the benefit of having regular rent, a little bit off the top isn’t really going to be missed.