--76.120.xx.xx

For those that don't want to do lockbox, I would just have them confirm an hour before the showing. If they text/call to confirm, you can tell them it is not longer available at that time. Saves you from going through the calendar and cancelling everything. --72.209.xxx.xxx

(Texting is turned off on my phone). I also never confirm appointments, as that is a test of how responsible they are. Cancelling showings is easy. That was just really an observation. --76.120.xx.xx

I think it's my business and I don't want anyone walking around my vacant unit. Yes I'm old fashion that way. I do schedule showing while my workers are there and that works pretty well. --99.103.xxx.xxx

I'm minutes from my rentals, so if someone makes it through the prescreening and I am schedule a showing, I put the onus on them to text an hour before to confirm and I tell them if they do not contact me I will not be there. If they can't do that much the future doesn't look good anyway, so it's another screening tool. --24.194.xx.xx

Jeff, I've had people pay the app fee and do the application and everything is hunky dory but until I have signed lease AND deposit, place is not rented... --50.82.xxx.xx

I had one that I showed a two room studio unit to. It was a tough rental market at the time, so he tried to drop the advertised rent amount by $75.00. I gave him a counter-offer by lowering it a slight bit, I think I said by $25.00. He said that he'd think about it, and left. The next appointment an hour later immediately took it at the advertised rent. The original guy returned back about three hours afterward, to say that he would take the unit at my counter offer. I had to tell him that I already had an application for it. Boy, that really made me feel so good inside. He who waits - loses! --67.176.xxx.xxx

Good! Trains them to make a decision fast and not shop around and compare. Once you know you'd like to make this place home, move it forward. I love hearing how they missed out, huge opportunity for me to get a holding deposit. This time of year people have money to move due to tax refunds. Once beat out they learn to be an opportunist! Ya! --99.203.xx.xxx

I have a tenant right now whose lease expires April 30th. He wants to extend it for another 60 days, month to month, and with no rent increase. He will be job transferring out of state (to Raleigh, NC). I will decline his offer, since May 1st is the hottest rental month in the rental season, and I'm certain the apartment will rent quickly - especially since a new kitchen floor and refrigerator was recently installed there. I just have to figure out how to diplomatically word my "decline letter". --67.176.xxx.xxx

Most of the home buyers out there have learned that in a hot market you need to act quickly and decisively or you will lose out to the next guy. Most of the tenants just seem to think that if they don't get yours another one will be coming up tomorrow. Very hard to understand, but some of it could have to do with them still struggling to stomach rents being higher than they would like in general. --24.20.xxx.xxx

I think a lot it is because so many people have the mentality that the world revolves around them. They just assume that the apartment will be there for them to see on their time. Just like so many ignore things like No Pets and No Smoking, they think they are an exception. --71.10.xxx.xxx