As a homeowner, you have probably seen it all – organized tenants who keep your unit clean, pay the rent in time, cause no problems to the neighbors, and maybe even cooperate with other tenants to create a community. On the other hand, you have probably experienced unfriendly people who have problems with absolutely everything, who are rude to other tenants, damage the equipment, use your unit for more people than the contract consented to, regularly ask for payment postponement, or simply even refuse to pay at all.

As a homeowner, you have probably seen it all – organized tenants who keep your unit clean, pay the rent in time, cause no problems to the neighbors, and maybe even cooperate with other tenants to create a community. On the other hand, you have probably experienced unfriendly people who have problems with absolutely everything, who are rude to other tenants, damage the equipment, use your unit for more people than the contract consented to, regularly ask for payment postponement, or simply even refuse to pay at all. 

The homeowner knows well that it is not all about money. Of course, it is an extremely important part of renting, but in time payments do not automatically mean that you have found a holy grail of tenants. You don’t appreciate having a troublemaker terrorizing neighbors with bad smells, smuggling people you didn’t agree to reside in the unit, throwing wild parties in the middle of week, playing the vuvuzela every morning before dawn.

Let’s engage our imagination a bit. A person contacts you reacting to an offer of a vacant unit claiming he is interested. What are the features the promising tenant should display? What are the good signs to notice?