In part one of our "tips to becoming a better landlord in Central Florida" series we talked about the nitty gritty details to getting an investment property move-in-ready in order to find the right tenant. Now that you’ve got the home primed and ready for showing to the hordes of people looking to rent, you’ll need to qualify the prospective Tenant. 

There are numerous programs out there that will help you in doing a check of your prospective Tenant. When weighing your options, be sure to let the firm handling the background/credit check know your criteria. For the background check, it will be your decision to determine what you’re willing to accept and decline. Is an unpaid parking ticket okay? How about a DUI? These are ultimately decisions that you are going to have to make. Are you looking for a certain credit score? Keep in mind that if you are looking for that perfect score, it’s not likely to happen. Most people these days are recovering from the market crash that happened a few years back and are still trying to rebuild their credit scores and history back up. A little flexibility on your part might be needed now and perhaps not so much a few more years down the line.

It’s no joke. Thinking about selling your home can be intimidating. There are many factors that go into making this decision.

Before you sell your home, ask yourself these questions:

• Is my home buyer-ready?
• Can I get it sold for the price I want?
• Can I get it sold in the timeframe I want?

If you really want to sell your home in Central Florida, it can be done. You just need to get in the right frame of mind. When trying to sell you home, the most important details are the ones that are necessary to get your home sold quickly and at the best price possible. Begin by taking into consideration the suggestions in this post.

Just about every Investor has had to deal with tenants that keep them in one of two situations: a) scrambling to find new ones or b) trying their best to keep the ones they have living in the investment property, FOREVER. What you, the investor, can do to find the right tenant starts with you, the landlord. In this series, we hope to give you tips to becoming a better landlord in Central Florida. And just maybe, they will leave you in the latter of the two situations mentioned above.