Tenant Viewing – A Time Saving Landlord Tips
If you’ve been a landlord for a while, you’ve likely been stood up at one time or another by a tenant who obviously values his or her time more than yours. Your time is important and if a tenant doesn’t show, you’ve just wasted some of that precious time. Would you like to learn how to prevent getting stood up in the future?
To help minimize this occurring here’s a tactic I was taught to preserve my time and minimize no shows. When scheduling viewings inform the potential tenant to call you an hour prior to the viewing time. Let them know if they don’t call, you won’t be there. Make sure they write your number down and you are very clear with them, you will not show up if you do not hear from them an hour prior.
Also, let them know if you do not answer to leave a message confirming they are coming. This way if you have a group all arriving close together (which you should if you booked crowds!!) you don’t get buried in calls or call backs!
The important part to remember from this is, if they don’t call you an hour before, but then call you at the meeting time wondering where you are, don’t rush over there! Reschedule and get them to follow the same process. If they can’t get it right the second time you may want to be concerned if they can follow any other instructions you have for them, such as the rules of the lease?
What you can learn from using these tactics are a)whether the potential tenant(s) are dependable, b) whether they can follow instructions (your lease is one big instruction set) and c) that you don’t have to waste your time if tenants cannot follow instructions.