Very seldom do we, as property owners and managers, put ourselves in our tenant's shoes. The past couple months have been very interesting as prospective tenants describe to me the perils of finding an apartment in today's competitive market. The market today is in stark contrast to two years ago when it was hard for me to "give" an apartment away, especially during the naturally slow months of November and December.

Tenants describe open houses where there are hundreds of tenants on the street waiting to get in, showing up to open houses only to learn that the apartment was already rented, and spending hundreds of dollars on multiple application fees just to hear that the apartment went to another party before their own application was even reviewed.  

Below is an article that aptly reinforces what I have been hearing, and how some unscrupulous landlords are taking advantage of prospective tenants' desperation by charging application fees for more applications than they possibly need to get the apartment rented to a qualified tenant.

Below that, I have included some of Lingsch Realty's practices that enforce our commitment to treat both our clients and tenants ethically.

I wish you all a very happy holiday season.  If there is one thing we can be thankful for this year, it is that we are not tenants scrambling to find a place to hang our Christmas stockings.