What is the best way to advertise a rental in a college town? Is the university newspaper the best or are there good web sites out there that you would recommend?
For a college town I typically use Craigs List. Most students are online and savvy.
Typically, to post a rental at the university, you have to physically go down to the univiersity and post it on their board. Not many have an online submission site.
Of course, the local newspaper works in some areas (but Craigs List is much better in California).
We found the best advertising for college units is word of mouth, posting notices on dorm bulletin boards, and laundromats. We normally offer the exiting tenants, if they were good tenants, a referral fee if they refer a new tenant to us.
If the smell is still in the carpet after cleaning, more than likely the urine has penetrated the padding or even worse the plywood on the floor. Either way the carpeting is trashed, pull up the carpet and the padding, leave the room air out a few days, then seal the plywood with a good wood sealer. That will seal any remaining odor in the floor. Then replace the carpeting. This method works for cat urine, which is the worst, so it will work for human?? urine.
I believe geo-thermal is significantly more expensive to install and VERY inexpensive to operate so....do you pay utilities on this property? Such inexpensive heat/AC may ultimately allow you to put more in your pocket by including heat & AC in rent and charging more rent. Tenants would not know what you were paying they would only know they were not. If you did this you would likely be able to install only one system for both units. You may want to operate it for a year or get some solid estimates to annual expense from the installer before doing so.
rehab2day-
Thanks for the suggestion, all the utilites are seperate (even water), wanna keep it what way because of the appliances in the unit.
larock-
Thanks for the input about the supplimental heat on the heatpump.
jimandlacy-
So you installed a low end heat pump? How is the heat on it, does it warm well enough? What is your cliamte like, how cold does it get? What brand did you buy? Thanks!!
Anyone know anything about packaged gas/electric systems???
For a college town I typically use Craigs List. Most students are online and savvy.
Typically, to post a rental at the university, you have to physically go down to the univiersity and post it on their board. Not many have an online submission site.
Of course, the local newspaper works in some areas (but Craigs List is much better in California).
Thanks for the advice! Has anybody tried StudentRent or places4student?[ Edited by Jumpsnow on Date 02/01/2007 ]
I have not tried it. Do a search and see how many rentals come up in your area on the site. If there are only a very few, skip it.
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On 2007-02-01 14:36, Jumpsnow wrote:
Thanks for the advice! Has anybody tried StudentRent or places4student?
<font size=-1>[ Edited by Jumpsnow on Date 02/01/2007 ]</font>
We found the best advertising for college units is word of mouth, posting notices on dorm bulletin boards, and laundromats. We normally offer the exiting tenants, if they were good tenants, a referral fee if they refer a new tenant to us.
If the smell is still in the carpet after cleaning, more than likely the urine has penetrated the padding or even worse the plywood on the floor. Either way the carpeting is trashed, pull up the carpet and the padding, leave the room air out a few days, then seal the plywood with a good wood sealer. That will seal any remaining odor in the floor. Then replace the carpeting. This method works for cat urine, which is the worst, so it will work for human?? urine.
I believe geo-thermal is significantly more expensive to install and VERY inexpensive to operate so....do you pay utilities on this property? Such inexpensive heat/AC may ultimately allow you to put more in your pocket by including heat & AC in rent and charging more rent. Tenants would not know what you were paying they would only know they were not. If you did this you would likely be able to install only one system for both units. You may want to operate it for a year or get some solid estimates to annual expense from the installer before doing so.
oh yeah, there is no existing duct work. I would want to have that installed too. Is there any drawbacks to that flex-duct work?
rehab2day-
Thanks for the suggestion, all the utilites are seperate (even water), wanna keep it what way because of the appliances in the unit.
larock-
Thanks for the input about the supplimental heat on the heatpump.
jimandlacy-
So you installed a low end heat pump? How is the heat on it, does it warm well enough? What is your cliamte like, how cold does it get? What brand did you buy? Thanks!!
Anyone know anything about packaged gas/electric systems???
Forgot to mention this is for a 1-level.
How about a referral from the group selling the condos?
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