Best Tenants for my Long Beach Rental

To find the best tenants we invite you to consider the following:

Reaching prospective tenants means having a balanced approach to reaching renters as they search for available properties. While the traditional searching for a rental property involved flipping through local newspapers, today’s renter actively uses multiple online resources to find the best property for their goals.

To attract tenants for your Long Beach rental consider marketing your rental on a number of online sources such as: 

 

Facebook marketplace is a free area within Facebook that originally started as more of an enhanced version of Cragislist. It allows you to easily add photos, details, desired rent and it exposes your rental to not only those you are connected to but those within a large area to reveal what is available.

 

Be prepared to answer questions from prospective renters as to the availability of the property, time for showings, and what’s included in the rental amount. Even if you have these listed in the Facebook marketplace ad you will still get asked many questions.

While many associate Zillow and Trulia with the home buying process they have established themselves as prime destinations for renters seeking out their next property. Especially within Long Beach, that has many defined neighborhoods, these platforms allow renters to easily search within submarkets such as Alamitos Beach, Belmont Heights, etc.  

When you have a single rental property this isn’t necessarily the most straightforward task to accomplish but it is helpful. As a property management company in Long Beach we post all of our available rentals (with a larger majority within Long Beach) and this gives prospective tenants the opportunity to see a variety of properties (i.e. condos, homes, duplexes) where they can have just a single point of contact making it quicker for both tenant and the owner to get the property leased.

The same way prospective homeowners view properties prospective tenants need to view properties as well. With everyone having a variety of work schedules and there always being competition for attracting great renters it is important to make your property as available as possible.  

If you are renting your own property it can be challenging to make it available during the traditional work day. In these scenarios we would recommend having more of an “open house” where you can make your property available on a weekend for many prospective tenants to view. Make sure you provide a window of time to prospective tenants who have called, messaged you about the property, or who have requested notification when you would hold the property open. 

At Beach Cities Property Management we have the benefit of showing available renters during the work day and we have a dynamic key system that allows us to ensure our available rentals can be shown at times that work for the best possible tenants.

Finding the best possible tenant means evaluating every rental application fairly and carefully. Take time to understand how many people will be living in the property, the number of pets (if you allow pets), the ratio of income vs. rent, job history, credit history and more. For many homeowners who are renting their home for the first time they want to take the first renter that fills out an application, and that might work, but we encourage you to thoroughly evaluate each application to ensure it is the best tenant for your property.

At Beach Cities Property Management we market to 100’s of locations to attract the best tenants for your Long Beach rental, make it available for viewing easily to ensure there is minimal downtime without a renter, and have a detailed process of reviewing applications. When you would like to find out more on how we can find the best tenants for your Long Beach rental we invite you to request our Free Rental Analysis to see how we can help.