When lodging a tenancy application, there are a few key things you can do to arm yourself with the best possible chance of being successful. Trying to find a new home to rent can be exhausting. Particularly if you know there’s big competition on the one property you have desperately fallen in love with!
Our Property Management Experts share with us their top tips to help you ensure your tenancy application is the chosen one.
7 Tips to Lodge the Winning Tenancy Application
1. Dot Your I’s and Cross Your T’s
Ensure all of your paperwork is thorough and completed properly. If your application hasn’t been completed properly or is missing information, then this will delay the process and could mean your application misses out altogether.
2. Supporting Documentation
These requirements can vary agency to agency. Ensure that the documentation you are supplying meets the agency’s guidelines & requirements.
3. References
Ensure your references are reputable with valid contact details. Ideally don’t put a family member down as a reference. Agencies & Landlords don’t want to see references from your mum, of course she’s going to give you a glowing reference!! Instead, perhaps consider your employer or a teacher. But always remember to ask them firstly, before putting them down as your reference!
4. Ensure all contact details are correct and legible
In order to conduct reference and background checks, the agency will need to make some phone calls and send emails. If they need to follow you up for this info then it will delay the application process even further.
5. Be on time to every appointment
We all lead busy lives. If for whatever reason you can’t make an appointment on time, be sure to call your contact person to let them know you’re going to be delayed. Punctuality will show the agency that you are a reliable candidate.
6. All occupants over the age of 18 years must submit an application
Anyone residing in the property who is over the age of 18 MUST submit their own application regardless of who is paying the rent.
7. Online Applications
If the agency has the facility to do so, consider lodging your application through sites such as 1 Form wherever possible. The beauty with sites such as 1 Form is that you, the tenant, can literally fill out your tenancy application details once. You can then use those details to apply for as many tenancy applications as you need thereafter.
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If you have a property in South East QLD that you would like to discuss with one of the team members at Calibre, then please feel free to call our office at (07) 3367 3411 or lodge an enquiry on the “Property Management” page on our website.
