Are almost always the unrentables. I have two ads in on Craigslist (no I've tried FB even with a biz page and it's awful). I have an ad in at Zumper (boosted). I'm getting maybe one inquiry a day and they are all recycled DQs. I send out a prequal anyway but there situation amazingly never improves. Most don't even bother to fill out my prequal sheet. It is probably apparent to them via the prequal that I won't be renting out to nuisance/problematic tenants.

Unit is a very large 2100 sq ft gut rehabbed SFH with reasonable rent for the area.

I have not yet run a Zillow ad for this place although I expect to.

/rantoff

Ken, I'm giving the town FB site one more try. When I did my biz site, it kept getting bot-flagged with "violating community standards" which there was nothing in the ad that did so. Ad was extremely vague (in order to keep applicants from knowing what to lie about).

That's a bigger place. Need a niche tenant maybe. One with lots of kids?

I got lucky with my only Zillow ad. Worked as perfectly as I could have wanted. She is living there and he will move in in December when he graduates from college out of state. (Yes I met him)

Haven't had to deal with winter movers since all the tenant problems multiplied.

I just had a tenant move out on me mid-November. All my leases terminate in the summer, but she wanted to move in with her mother to care for her. All the more reason for a solid lease! Mine has an early termination clause and states that rent is for full months only. She doesn't think she has to pay any of that because she's her mother's only daughter and no way is she going to make her mother leave her home, yada yada yada).

Zero, Im hoping for maybe younger responsible adults that want to room together or a nice family that works at the local school district or hospital...hopefully with older kids. Nobody parents their kids anymore or says the word no.

Another reason I don't do window coverings.

Pets and animals.

You should try to advertise on every available platform and you should create your own platform.

Every housing search by an out of towner starts with a google search . By maintaining your own website and regularly posting y ou tube videos, you will be seen by the right people.

The dregs of the local renter pool scours the platforms constantly, the good prospects don’t yet know what the name of the most used fb marketplace group for rentals in your area.

At one level I absolutely agree with you. Vacancies this time of year are tougher to fill with qualified applicants. The lake effect snow here makes for the affordable prices for the other nine months of the year (although sometime I think winter is nine months long).

When I find myself with a vacancy during an off season, I ask myself how I need to change my management practices to match the market place that I elected to work in. Most of the time - the issue drops down on to my lap ....not the tenants.

That is sometimes a tough pill to swallow.

So maybe it is marketing, perhaps it is screening, or even retention of the correct residents. For me this past month, it was expanding during off season. Please have hope, I have a move in today and another who wants to move in a week ahead on Friday.