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[quote=Anonymous]We would only be willing to rent out places in certain zipcodes/areas. Background checks are your friends.

We were willing to rent to unrelated groups but our homes were in Georgetown/Palisades so we didn't get the riff raff.

Listen to your gut- we had one guy who was nice enough, but then asked if he could have his girlfriend over from time to time- at the time it was a group of grad students living there and we felt it wasn't fair to the others because it would have been a free roommate situation so we declined to rent/didn't pursue it. If it was a random thing here and there- why ask- that would be up to the room mates, not us, so it didn't sit right with us. Also had a guy who knew we were background checking him who wasn't forthcoming about some DUI/DWIs. We declined to rent because we didn't want it to be a frathouse or worse.

In our experience- families are best- they have prideful rentership and will keep the place nice.

In general: Guys are waaaay messier but will NEVER call you (to your detriment; they will try to 'fix' things or not report them in a timely fashion)

Girls will call you ALL THE TIME but will report any issues (and even goofy things like wanting to change the paint from cream to ivory) but won't trash the place like guys.[/quote]

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