Every Landlord's Guide to Finding Great Tenants - Softcover

The only book devoted to the most important decision a landlord can make! 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 while keeping with fair housing laws and avoiding unexpected transgressions. 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.

Janet Portman specializes in residential and commercial landlord/tenant law, legal issues related to courts, and neighbor disputes. She is the author or co-author of Every Landlord's Legal Guide and Every Tenant's Legal Guide among others. A nationally syndicated columnist with Inman News, Portman's column, "Rent It Right," appears regularly in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and other prominent newspapers and websites. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.