Tips for Renting Your Home

Before putting your house on the rental market you should properly prepare it.  Following are some basic things you can do to prepare your house rental. 

Inspect the house for anything damaged or missing and replace/fix the items.

A fresh coat of pain can do wonders.  Consider painting the interior rooms to give it a fresh, clean appearance.

A clean house portrays a well kept house.  Make sure and perform a thorough cleaning.

Consider some low cost renovations that will appeal to renters and also increase the value of your house.

After your house is ready to put on the rental the next step will be advertising it.  The rental market is very competitive right now, especially with all the foreclosures turning into rentals.  Following are some rental advertising methods you can use.

• Internet.Over 70% of renters search online for a rental property so you want to make sure your home rental is online. It’s important to get your house rental on as many rental directories as possible. RentShout.com is a service that can help you with this.

• “For Rent” signs.Don’t forget to place a rental sign in front of your house. This will increase your chance of grabbing a renter driving by or getting your neighbors to refer their friends.

• Box with rental flyers. Print up detailed rental flyers that showcase your house and place them in a box attached to the sign.

• Bulletin boards.Post flyers on bulletin boards at colleges and other public places to draw in more people.

• Classified ads.Submit a rental ad in the classified sections of your local newspaper.  This can be more expensive than internet marketing but can pull in additional applicants.

      

Advertise Your Rentals With Video – Tip #2

Google has expanded on their Universal Search options to include video-specific results, and most renters want to see what a property looks like before making a decision.   Rental video marketing will give you the advantage because your rental property will be seen in video portals, search engine results and give renters the visual they are looking for.

So take advantage of this technology and advertise your rentals online with video and give yourself the advantage over the thousands of other rentals your competing with.

      

How to advertise rentals – Tip #1

Syndicate Your Rentals

The more places on the internet you can place your rentals the better.  The top rentals sites combined draw in over 30+ million monthly visitors.  If your rental listing is in front of these visitors, you will draw in more leads much quicker.  Manually posting your rentals in all of these rental directories can tend to be very time consuming.  A rental posting service can help save you time on this.  So get started now and start posting your rentals to top rental directories and start watching the leads roll in.

Rental Advertising Tips

If you are a property manager or landlord you are most likely aware of the challenges on finding quality renter leads.  Following are a few tips that should help you obtain more leads.

Create appealing rental templates and post the full color rental ad to Craigslist.  Your rental advertisement will stand out above the crowd and capture more renters when using professional templates.

 

Include a downloadable or linkable rental application on your online rental ads.  This will enable renters to download and fill out the rental application and return it to you.   This will also give you the information you need about each renter so you can properly evaluate a qualified applicant.

 

 

 

Make it EASY for renters to get in contact with you.  If you make it complicated they may just move onto the next listing.  Include your phone number, a way for the renter to email you or even use a click-to-call service that connects to your cell phone.

 

 

Consider using a rental posting service that will post your rentals online.  A good rental syndication service will place your rental listing in top online rental directories increasing the exposure to your listings.