I've received 5 inquiries for my rental property in 2-weeks.

Two of the inquiries have resulted in appointments. I have one application that we're running a credit & criminal check on. We haven't received the results yet. The 2nd party is viewing the property tomorrow.

I've gotten two of the leads through Craigslist. The other leads I received were through Hotpads after posting on Zillow. How can I "refresh" Zillow?

What are "best " places to advertise ? I think the first person we ran credit on will qualify. But ,if not , I'll run the credit for the other person. Thanks.

I always used CraigList. It's fairly legitimate around here for rentals. It brings better people than the newspaper which has free editions all over the place. At least it presupposes someone can afford a computer or phone.

This time around I had a one br. upstairs from my bad tenant that I kept empty for over a year as I was afraid she would burn the place down but I couldn't find any evidence to evict her. Left stinky garbage in the hall etc. I think she ran off my past two upstairs tenants but they wouldn't tell me what she did to them.

So one of my current tenants has a grand daughter and her fiane' and they are taking the one br now that downstairs is moving. Same tenant went to Bingo and found me two other potential applicants.

zillow only needs to renew every 30 days.

I like Zillow because it syndicates out to places like Hotpads and Trulia. I get most of my leads from Zillow and Trulia and a few from Hotpads. Almost nothing any more from Craigslist. That used to be the hot spot, but now big apartment complexes just over-post their own ads 10x per day and Craigslist does nothing to police it, so most small time LLs have left.