cheers. yea I see what you mean. I'm hoping to secure a tradie who needs to lock his equipment/tools up. I'll see how we go with this price point for a little longer though just to be sure.
Northy, given that Easter is coming up and then the school holidays, you might not have as many tenants thinking to uproot right about now. Potential tenants are probably starting to wind down, getting ready for their Easter gettaway, so they would want to remain in their current digs at the moment, at least for the next two weeks.
What you could do to get your listing noticed is end the listing, then relist at $345 so your ad is at the top of the rental adverts for Slacks Creek. It becomes like a 'new' listiing.
$330 is the normal rent for such property but
because you have such a large yard you could advertise that outside pets like dogs are welcome in the property. That will be a strong selling point.
I've been advised by agents in the past that there is a huge niche market demand for rental properties that will allow a dog to live outside in a backyard and given you have such a huge yard, both dog and owner will be happy to live there, and the owner won't mind at all if they pay a small premium above market.
In 6 months, you can up the rent by $5 to get it to be what you want to be which is $350.
I will pm you the agent who gave me such ideas and if you want to change your rental agent to list with them, feel free to do so.
In addition to end listing and readvertise to get your ad to the top, and saying pets allowed to live outside, because Easter is coming up and people will get a bit of a break to trawl through rental listings, to get a quality tenant in fast, advertise 'One week's free rent! Be quick, limited time only!' (this is my idea and what I did)
So instead of having it empty for 2 weeks for the Easter break, you may get a quality tenant really quickly with the '1 week free rent offer'.
It's up to you but it
worked like a charm for my property in Logan. Good luck!
