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It’s been going on a while but he’s I’m seeing a significant decline, at least for people with good or better credit. It’s still taking less than a month on average but the number of qualified contacts is done by half. --162.204.xxx.xxx

What is happening in Canada is immigration is going down along with no international students where now rental vacancies along with a lot unsold condominiums are on the market along single family houses have dropped in value. The speculation bumble has burst where reality is here. --216.110.xxx.xxx

Yes, I'm seeing far fewer inquiries and applicants for my vacancies. Other than people who have to move or are relocating, it seems that people are mostly staying put. --68.1.xxx.xxx

Same in my area near St.Louis Missouri --172.59.xxx.xx

The people looking are not people we want to rent to :( --73.216.xxx.xxx

Just started a full rehab on an apartment. Will be interesting once it is done. Maybe my little backwards area will have caught up by then, but I hope not. --47.227.xx.xxx

When the banks finance anyone who can fog a mirror, we’re left with the ones that can’t. What difference does it make to them when they get bailed out of their mistakes? --174.240.xxx.xx

If the banks will finance anyone that fogs a mirror, split the house from the land at the county recorder's office and then sell the house and lease the land. If they don't pay the losses are lower and you can still sue them and lien the house. No maintenance or repairs on the house either. --24.180.xx.xxx

I’ve never had a shortage of qualified applicants. Although of every 100 only 5 might meet my criteria. --47.201.xxx.xxx

We have an empty house for which we cannot find a suitable tenant. Several apps for bad people. Several inquiries from auto-dq'ed people (smoked, not enough income, too many people, etc.) But not one good prospect. --73.216.xxx.xxx

I've got one that I've been trying to rent since January and I'm just now getting traction now that it's spring. The basic story is that the most qualified applicants have every LL chasing them while the least qualified are chasing you. There are tons of people with bad credit and very few with decent credit. The number of people I see with a score above 650 is like 5% of the applicant pool. --23.28.x.xxx

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Cycles tend to be more local. It's been great here. For one, it's not a secret that people are moving from blue states to red states with Florida and Texas at the top of the list. We have a very good market locally which is spurred on by the grow in industry leaving California. Good city growth, very-very low unemployment, and continued expansion of jobs is still somewhat exceeding the ability for builders to keep up with demand. There are still deadbeats, I'm running about 1 good one for every 10-15 applicants so still a lot of filtering. --99.64.xx.xx

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I have no idea how it is in landlord friendly areas, but I imagine there is still a sizable pool of responsible renters. --64.246.xxx.xx

I was going to say four houses kept clean, but that isn't quite true. One house, tenant is tidy, but not clean. Tenant is a smoker ( I allow) and deep fries foods (wish I could ban, but various court cases have shown that to be skirting around discriminatory if certain foods are banned, and I am not one to go anywhere nearing becoming a test case.) Anyway, this tenant asked if I could paint ( or if tenant could,) because it looks grungy. I said I won't paint over dirty walls, though I was planning on taking the kitchen cabinet doors off to repaint with a more durable paint. Tenant made small effort to clean, but just doesn't seem well-versed in the subject. I decided, heck, if I had a turnover, I'd have to clean and paint. So, I have decided to go room by room. I need my 750 hours to qualify as a business yet this year anyway. Tenant is happy, and is continuing to make efforts at cleaning. I've had a ( different) tenant say their parent used to just say , ' It's time to move,' when the house/ apartment got grungy. I taught that tenant how to wash walls, trim, vacuum heat registers. They had never done so. Perhaps that is how it is with many tenants in my rental area. So, I am cleaning and repainting to keep a long term tenant. But, mostly cleaning, though the Swiss Coffee latex trim paint gets dingy over time, so a light almost drybrush on most trim. Walls it is just cleaning, touching up dings, furniture marks. Color ( custom mix, close to Agreeable Gray,) blends perfectly. --72.135.xxx.xxx

As for getting the hours in you can include the time spent on this forum, ha ha. --195.242.xxx.xxx