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 Seven Vital Tips To Help You Collect Your Tenant Debt – Part Seven of our Seven Part Series by Bill Gray, Fidelity Information Corporation
Your debt recovery may depend on what you do before the tenant moves in!Get the right information from your prospect before they move in, and you will always increase your chances for debt recovery on the back end. TIP NUMBER SEVEN Signed Move-In Statement. Congratulations, you found a new tenant! No need to walk through the unit – we’re all friends here, right? Wrong! For both your and your new tenant’s protection, walk through the unit with them before they move in. Make accurate and legible notes about the condition of the unit. ”I wish I had a nickel for every debtor who says the apartment was cleaner when he moved out that when he moved in.” A signed Move-In Statement can prove him wrong. Miss the other tips in our series? Click here for TIP ONE Click here for TIP TWO Click here for TIP THREE Click here for TIP FOUR Click here for TIP FIVE Click here for TIP SIX In need of tenant debt collection? Call 303–938-8280 or send an email to collection@joinaaoa.org. Write the word “COLLECTION” in the subject line. Premium and Premium Plus members receive discounts on debt collection. Sign up now, or upgrade your membership to enjoy the savings. Premium Plus members also receive a copy of Real Estate Investment Secrets, twelve interviews with industry leaders, including “How to Collect Debts When Your Tenant Leaves Owing You Money” by Jeff Cronrod, CEO of Fidelity Information Corporation. To find out how to purchase Real Estate Investment Secrets,visit www.joinaaoa.org.   Posted on Friday, December 7th, 2007 at 12:36 pm and is filed under AAOA Forum, Collections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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