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Originally Posted by motion
Wow, you must live in an owner's market.
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The $400 application fee is actually what a current tenant paid before he found me.
I've seen ads for $1,250/mo to share a room.
Insane in this town and bubble conditions.
$25-50 is pretty standard around here and shows they are motivated. It can be refunded.
If they bawk at that, expect more trouble later on.
I stay on the low side of the market but then again I'm not a good businessman. For the most part I've had excellent customers, and I like to see them succeed, but I let a tenant who I actually liked personally slide again and again. This turned into a game. All kinds of random demands, holes in things at departure, and a screaming fest on the phone. He took out his life frustrations on the nice guy helping him. That hurt.