I'm about to decide prospective tenants today don't know how to read, they just look at the pictures. How frustrating to have to answer things that are covered in the ad. I think on the next one I am going to make the title say "READ THE AD BEFORE RESPONDING"

LoL....amazing isn't it. I will ask 'did you read the ad?" and wait while they together some silly reply.

The run them thru the pre-qual questions which gets rid of them pretty quick.

I agree! I have had the same issues. I do preface the ad with "as long as this ad is up, the place is available. I will NOT respond to "is this available."

I ask them to tell me a bit about themselves, then I respond.

You can't imagine the "is this available" clicks that I still get. I don't respond.

The ones who READ the ad and give me some information are the ones I respond to.

Same here- the tenant pool is pathetic. Meth heads and people on the state sex predator list are all over.

I've come to the conclusion that hardly anyone reads the ad or even looks at the pictures. They don't care about those things. They hit the is it available button to see if you will contact them so they can "give you their story about how you should give them a chance and also how they only have half the rent and no deposit money". All the women have "abusive relationships" and are on welfare and/or disability. They all have "emo support dogs and cats". No jobs. But, of course, they have thousand dollar phones, long fancy fingernails, tictok accounts, only fans pages, etc. They come from lousy cities like Flint or Detroit and have drug dealing baby daddies hanging around.

reading is not good enough. We require they ride by and when you do tell me the number i have posted in the window so I know.

You want to stop browsers-- that's how.

SOMETIMES I've had prospects apologize but say they have looked at dozens of houses online and they actually forget which house I had listed. I can understand that. BUT I will then send them a LINK to the ad so they can go read and see the whole thing again.

If you insist on talking to them on the phone, then do like Frank says: ask "did you read the (whole) ad?

No.

Go back and read it and follow the instructions it contains. It is company policy to process inquiries in a certain way, and that must be started by following the instructions in the ad.

Then make a note that that they do not follow instructions and therefore have failed one of the key qualifying criteria.

1st step in the screening process: Can they read, no then pass

2nd step can they follow instructions, no then pass

I have never had luck with tenants painting. You hear them say how good they are at it, then you see the final product.

Had one long term tenant I inherited spill a 5 gallon pail on the stairs. Then walked thru it and ran down the sidewalk to another apartment. Footprints were there until she moved.

Paint on the floors, doors, trim, ceilings and other walls. Plus the ugly hard to cover colors they choose.