Take a recent Old Towne renovation we recently completed. Old Towne is Augusta's oldest community, and the house itself is easily over 100 years old. When we were renovating this 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom house, we didn't know if it would be for a group of college students or a family with children. As it turns out, it best fit the needs of a single family that moved in soon after. But it was more about our house fitting their needs than the renter fitting ours. What I mean by that is that, while we look at the following criteria when deciding to lease, one single blemish won't knock you out of the running entirely:
- Credit score - Many think that this is the one factor that can pass or fail a potential tenant's chance of getting into a lease. We do pull credit. We do pay attention to what is on a credit report. But we also understand that these are tough times, and no one is perfect. So while it is important that a credit score is satisfactory, it's not the only character witness testifying on your behalf.
- Rental history - This is perhaps the most important factor of all. Paying rent on time in the past, not packing up and moving away in the middle of the night a day before rent is due, having had a good relationship with past landlords - these are things that we like to hear when we call references.
- Job verification - Steady income to you means that you are more likely to pay your rent on time, to put it bluntly. Don't worry if you aren't a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or something like that. If you were, you'd probably be buying a million dollar house in a country club somewhere, not renting one!
Those are the main areas we take into account.
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