Hi,
I am in the process of purchasing an investment property in the ACT with Settlement only 2 weeks away on the 7th Nov 2014. We would like it available to rent 1 week later on the 14th Nov to allow us to get the carpets professionally cleaned and the back yard landscaped.
We have signed up with a property manager but they will not do anything to help us sign up a tenant until settlement. I can understand their office policy of not advertising it as we are not the legal owners, but we have permission from the owners to bring prospective tenants through on our final inspection so a consequence I am now advertising it myself online to find potential tennants.
We presently now have a number of possible tenants lined up to come to our final inspection on the 6th November to view the property and a few of them would like to submit an application beforehand (they might even be agreeable to signing a rental agreement for the 14th Nov as one of them needs proof of address for enrolling their children at the local school). I had directed them to my property manager for the application process, however I have now found out that my real estate PM are also not willing to take any applications before the applicants have viewed the property. Is this common practice?? - what about overseas/out of state applicants?
We would like to recieve applications so that we can consider them before settlement and then if they still like the property after viewing it we can quickly make a choice.
Since this is our first investment we I would like to know if we are being jerked around by the PM and can we get someone pre-approved and signed up before settlement (even if they haven't seen the place)? I would think it should be possible to at least submit an application?
Ideally I would like a property manager to work with us and make it an easy experience for any possible tenant. Since we have not signed a tenant through the current PM I am assuming that we cant still shop around for a property manager if needed?
I am in the process of purchasing an investment property in the ACT with Settlement only 2 weeks away on the 7th Nov 2014. We would like it available to rent 1 week later on the 14th Nov to allow us to get the carpets professionally cleaned and the back yard landscaped.
We have signed up with a property manager but they will not do anything to help us sign up a tenant until settlement. I can understand their office policy of not advertising it as we are not the legal owners, but we have permission from the owners to bring prospective tenants through on our final inspection so a consequence I am now advertising it myself online to find potential tennants.
We presently now have a number of possible tenants lined up to come to our final inspection on the 6th November to view the property and a few of them would like to submit an application beforehand (they might even be agreeable to signing a rental agreement for the 14th Nov as one of them needs proof of address for enrolling their children at the local school). I had directed them to my property manager for the application process, however I have now found out that my real estate PM are also not willing to take any applications before the applicants have viewed the property. Is this common practice?? - what about overseas/out of state applicants?
We would like to recieve applications so that we can consider them before settlement and then if they still like the property after viewing it we can quickly make a choice.
Since this is our first investment we I would like to know if we are being jerked around by the PM and can we get someone pre-approved and signed up before settlement (even if they haven't seen the place)? I would think it should be possible to at least submit an application?
Ideally I would like a property manager to work with us and make it an easy experience for any possible tenant. Since we have not signed a tenant through the current PM I am assuming that we cant still shop around for a property manager if needed?