Ojas
We advertise the street name,price pets neg and brief description .When the phone rings we ask for their name and contact #,tell them the house # so they can do a drivebyand ask them to ring back if they are still interested to organise an appointment.They are told to bring along the following to help in the application process
1 Photo ID
2 Proof of current address ie Elect,Phone,Gas bill
3 Proof of income
4 Previous rent receipts
5 References
Everything is cross checked and they are asked if they would mind if we had an internal inspection of their current address. We've never gone inside but a driveby is worthwhile to see how the outside is kept.We find by advertising pets neg you can get a full market rent ,sometimes even more and you seem to have less vacancies as agents don't seem to like pets .There always seems to be one dodgee applicant ie
1 I'm pretty quiet and I'm prepared to pay 6 mths in advance (there mightn't be any floorboards it 6 mths)
2 Asks if the house has gas connected when we are standing in the ketchen next to the electric oven and he is a boilermaker
3 you ring back and they answer to a different name.
Hope this helps, Bushy
PS Has anyone else had a dodgee?Info on what to look out for would be interesting and might make a good thread
