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Landlords face many challenges, but choosing new tenants has the greatest potential to affect your bottom line. Fortunately, Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants can help!

Let this book guide you through the process of attracting, screening and choosing the best renters possible. It covers:

*effective advertising *phone screening *presenting the unit *evaluating applications *examining credit reports *checking references *discrimination basics *making a rental offer *rejecting applicants *and much more

Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants provides dozens of forms and checklists for every step, with easy instructions to fill them out.

Plus: The included CD-ROM provides invaluable audio dialogues that show how to conduct interviews and get the information you need without running afoul of the law.

Average Customer Rating:

"the best desk reference for any landlord" The Midwest Book Review

Customer Rating:

The following is from a review published in REVIEWER'S BOOKWATCH January 2007 ...EVERY LANDLORD'S GUIDE TO FINDING GREAT TENANTS [is] designed in a reader friendly format, full of icons, shaded call-out boxes, sample forms, and checklits. Easty-to-read tables outline state-specific laws on returning security deposits and showing notices, to name a few. From apartment makrketing programs, how to show a rental, fielding and screening calls, and chekcing references, no step in the process is left out and all procedures are drilled down to the bottom line. Ms. Portman brings an expert's perspective on the law, but don't thinkt hat this is a dry read. Engaging text sprinkled with bullet points, graphics, and clever caution points, make this the best desk reference for any landlord. Perfect for the experianced but exasperated landlord [or] the freshly mined, this is a must-have rental resource. ...comes with a hand CD-ROM for on-the-go landlord. The CD has files of all forms featured and discussed in the book, as well as sample landlord-tenant conversations. Nothing has been left of out this complete guide and the format makes it simple to focus on a particular theme, and revisit others on a when-the-time-comes basis. ...This book is a solid ten and highly recommended to building pwners, 1031 Exchange Qualifying Intermediaries, real estate editors and educators, leasing and rental managers, real estate agents and brokers.

Worth getting for the forms on cd-rom

Customer Rating:

I find the forms included with the book on cd-rom to be very useful (they are included as both PDF and RTF files--you can edit the RTF files in any word processor. However, the book itself is mostly 'duh', and what it does say it repeats. The book could easily have been 100 pages shorter. Almost all of what the book says can be found in more concise form in a good book on landlording (such as Leigh Robinson's book 'Landlording'). Also, the legal issues of finding tenants and not discriminating are better addressed in Nolo's "Every Landlord's Legal Guide". So while this book is worth getting for the forms, it offers little information in the book itself that is not better said elsewhere.