This is a bonus episode of the rental income podcast. And now, Dan Lay. Chris, you had a lot of potential

tenants that were kind of wasting your time. Can you tell us what was going on? Yeah, definitely.

So, you know, a lot of people have problems where they get a lot of interest in a property, but,

you know, a lot of that is, you know, not legitimate. It's just people that are just very

quick and easy, just like internet. It's very easy to send a message and inquire about something,

you know, so what I do is on Zillow, I require a completed application before I schedule a

showing. So that gives me an opportunity to make sure that they're actually

interested. They're vested in the property. It also allows me to prescreen them just kind of

gauge their seriousness and if I'm really, you know, interested in actually renting them

the property. But once I get that completed application, I'll schedule a showing. And I usually

scheduled them about 15 to 20 minutes apart and, you know, three or four in the same

little time period. So even if someone doesn't show up, I'm only out that 15, 20 minutes,

which isn't that big a deal. I can kill 15 minutes waiting for the next person.

The application that you have them fill out, is that the same application that you would give

someone as if they were actually going to apply for your rental?

Correct. So Zillow, when they pull the application or they do the application, it comes

with a background check, an eviction report, a credit report. And if there's multiple tenants that

are going to be in there, like a husband and wife, each one will have that complete list of

report. They'll have a few items that they can fill out, like their income

and maybe a little small description or something that they want to add as a comment. So that's

also useful in just helping, you know, narrow down the applicants. If somebody wants to see one of

Chris's rental properties, they've got to take the time to fill out an application and also pay the application fee.

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