Gumtree rent adverstisement

How have you experienced with rent adverstisement on gumtree.com.au?

I got a lot of enquiries but most of them are from people who seem not be good tenants.

 

You get the quality of tenant you pay for with your advertising.

 

Gumtree tenants are black listed hence why looking on there as they cannot get anywhere with agencies etc.

 

I've had magnificent tenants from Gumtree for over 6 years now. I did all the check ups as would be done for any other tenants, no different. Some people who are more savvy will use different mediums to find a rental property.

 

Screen them well

 

It's mostly not great tenants, but you get the odd gem. Often people coming out of a marriage and have mortgage repayment history but no rental history, but are people that know how to look after a property and pay the bills on time.

 

From a friends experience, gumtree is a **** attractor.

 

As a generalisation, people via gumtree are those that would fail agency background/database checks, be very vigilant.

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HELP BAD TENANT- Need Help please!

 

We use gumtree for one rental in particular, and I agree with all of the above warnings - screen VERY carefully. It may even be beneficial to look into paying for access to the TICA database.

That said, all of the tenants we've chosen so far have been true gems - absolutely no complaints at all. So there ARE good tenants out there on gumtree..... just be very picky. We've left it vacant for weeks, to get the right tenant, rather than just take someone.

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When I was a tenant I used gumtree to find a place twice because I was moving and needed to rock up and move straight in.

At the time the rentals were very tight and the agents wanted to meet, sign documents and put me on a waiting list.

I didn't have time for all of that and gumtree helped a lot. In hindsight this was a bit risky but it worked out great for us and the landlord.

 

I've had mixed bag experiences on both sides

Lived in a largish 'cheap' share house and and we had advertised a vacant room through gumtree. Mostly backpackers that had jobs but only planning on staying 3 months, or crazy 18 year olds clearly getting kicked out of home for drug use. Or 30 year olds getting kicked out of wherever for drug use. The vetting process was an eye opener thats for sure.

I've also used gumtree as the sharehousing tenant - and was a great experience - was a singleton at the time, wanted somewhere nice to live close to the city after the owner of my previous rental (shared, but not gumtree) was moving back in. I could choose between a run down studio in that area I wanted to live, live well out of the city, or a room in a beautiful OTT executive home close to work. Chose the latter. I dont think the owner had too many riff-raff queries based given it was still quite exxy in comparison to other properties in the area (and with reason). Owners lived completely seperately to rest of the house, and the other tenants were well selected.

I'm not in a position anymore where I would need to rent or advertise on gumtree for accommodation (yay PPOR and actual income), but don't know if I would really do either again - even though I did have such a good place as a boarder.

 

Not all tenants from GT, and other media platforms are crap.

Like us landlords, tenants get frustrated with crappy PM's, would rather deal direct with the owner.

 

I have done it twice and both lots of tenants are perfect and still there now. One for nearly two years and the other I have had for nearly three years. Both are now enjoying below MV rent because they make my life easy and the houses are immaculate.

Although it is probably because the market around Hobart is extremely tight so all tenants check gumtree . Maybe in other areas it's only the dodgy tenants that checked on gumtree.

 

I have got good tenants from gumtree before. However, so many enquiries from unqualified tenants cause letting time consumption.

 

I've had some great Gumtree tenants, enough that I always advertise my properties there, but you do have to be very vigilant because the quality of applicant is far poorer by average than Realestate.com or similar.

 

Experience selling unwanted gift cards or Events Cinema gold class vouchers haven't been impressive. Lots of people who can't afford $20 and want to haggle. I noticed Gumtree have made a solid attempt at changing their perception through their TV ads but still, quality seems poor.

Would'nt bet on it for getting a good tenant.

 

I had advertised concurrently with my agent's ad once to try to speed things up. I had lots of queries of people want to have a look and saying they would like to rent my place. However, when I hand them my agent's form and ask them to complete, they all strangely disappeared.