Do Landlords Read "Housing Wanted" Ads? (apartment, tenant, eviction)
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Nope! My apt mgr gets 15+ applications a week! Why should she go looking LOL BTW Office here is only open 3 days a week!
That's why. When the office is only open 3 days a week, which happen to coincide with days I work, well, I'm looking for an alternative. The average Seattle rent for an apartment is $1,000 and up and the media recently reported it's now a renters market once again, thankfully.
That's why. When the office is only open 3 days a week, which happen to coincide with days I work, well, I'm looking for an alternative. The average Seattle rent for an apartment is $1,000 and up and the media recently reported it's now a renters market once again, thankfully.
Well, then I suggest you go to work late, leave work early, or put in for the day off. Expecting people to bend over backwards and accommodate you is just silly.
You can put all the ads in the paper you want, but the landlord you want isn't going to reading those ads. He doesn't have to..he has a waiting list.
I have never heard of a single landlord checking out the "Housing Wanted" ads. Not once.
With the state of the economy and how hard its to land a good mortgage, you are setting yourself up for failure if you want landlords to seek you out and do all the work for you.
Housing wanted is a mix between people looking to meet up with others to get a larger place together and others confusing it as the "personals" section. If you lack street smarts, stick to traditional methods.
OP, I am a landlord, and I read the housing wanted ads on Craigslist. However, I read them because they are funny, not because I expect to find a tenant.
A 1 bedroom apartment here starts at $700 and the ads are full of people looking for a place for $350 that must include all utilities and limitless high speed internet. Or else they must move out in three days and they are looking for a place where the landlord will let them in without a deposit and they want to do house work in exchange for the rent. (Move out in 3 days generally means that the eviction has been ruled on and the sheriff has scheduled the day to throw them out)
Or sometimes, they have 3 horses, need a place to rent where they can have horses, want barns, pastures, and a house for $300 a month.
I have occasionally contacted people with rental wanted ads, and off-hand, I can only remember one ever contacting me back. Maybe because my response to them asks if they smoke and what breed the "small dog" is.
I do sometimes recognize people who come and apply in person as people who have run an ad looking for a place. Like the 3 homeless people with the pit-bull "service dog" where she has Section 8 and the 2 men with no income refuse to fill out an application because they "won't live there for the first 3 months".
OP, take a couple of weeks to read the housing wanted ads and see what sort of company you are entering into. For the most part, they are people that no landlord would even consider, so probably most landlords do not read those ads.
I know that I am not the only landlord who is accommodating about hours to show. I prefer a tenant who has a job, so if they can only come and view after 5 PM, I will meet them after 5 PM.
If you want to place an ad, give your bonafides instead of only listing what you want. If you are a non-smoker, say so. If you don't use drugs, say so. If you don't have pets say so. If you do have pets, list what breed they are. Do you have good credit, good landlord references, steady job, no criminal record? Then say so.
Also give a price range that you are looking for and what area.
If you don't give your own good qualities, then the landlord is going to assume you are silent, hoping to slip something by.
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