Wednesday, October 5, 2011

CLIENT UPDATE FOR RENTERS: Screen Your Landlord!

For renters, your landlord checks your background before renting space to you.  You should do the same to your landlord:

1.  Do not be afraid to ask questions of your landlord.  A friendly and courteous conversation can get a lot of valuable information out of your landlord.  Also, go on-line and check.

2.  Check property records to see the ownership record of the property.  Make sure your landlord has the authority to be your landlord.  Check on-line.

3.  Find out how long the previous tenants were there; and, if possible, why.

4.  Talk to the neighbors.  Neighbors are very good sources of information.

5.  Drive by and look at the landlord's other properties.  Patterns usually emerge.

[Read, "UNDERSTANDING THE LAW: A Primer", by Attorney Charles Jerome Ware (iUniverse, 2008)]

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