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Online rental applications give you the power to conveniently collect and organize your rental applicants\u2019 information so you can quickly approve the most qualified tenant and fill your vacancies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Online applications can be part of the rental ad on your website, where prospects can directly apply to the property they are interested in. Applicants can input important information, securely attach required documents to the application (like pay stubs or copies of an ID), and pay the application fee online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can also email a link to prospective tenants who call you about a property or as a follow up to those who visit the property in person. Some landlords and property managers have found it beneficial for tenants to pull up a rental application on their phone while touring a property so they can apply on-site.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Recently, in light of social distancing requirements, online rental applications are seen as the safest way to collect applicant information, as nothing is physically exchanged between prospects and managers.<\/span><\/p>\n Safe and secure.<\/strong> Rental applicant data is securely collected and stored in your Rentec Direct account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Accurate information.<\/strong> The online system prevents your rental applicants from missing important areas of the application and leaving anything blank. Completely filling out the application the first time, saves you from needing to follow up with any rental applicants to find out the missing information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fraud prevention.<\/strong> You can avoid processing fraudulent applications with an authentication process in your online rental applications which matches the credit or debit card information used to pay the application fee to the applicant information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Instant access to tenant screening data.<\/strong> When you review your rental applicant data, you have the option to <\/span>order tenant screening reports directly from your software<\/span><\/a>. With the push of a button, you can order credit reports, criminal background and eviction history reports, income verification reports, and other popular tenant screening reports.<\/span><\/p>\n Approve or deny applications.<\/strong> When you are ready to make an applicant a tenant, you can <\/span>approve the online application<\/span><\/a>, and the tenant is instantly added to your tenant database, with the option to move them into a property. You can avoid manually entering tenant data, saving you more time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Online rental applications are part of your Rentec Pro or Rentec PM account and are included at no additional cost. You can start using your online rental applications today to help your future tenants submit important information and start the leasing process.<\/p>\n Instructions for creating your online rental applications<\/strong> can be found here: Setting Up Your Online Rental Application<\/a><\/p>\n If you’d like to sign up for a Rentec Direct account and start collecting rental applications online you can reach out to a product advisor at info@rentecdirect.com or sign up for a free 2-week trial here: Rentec Direct Property Management Software – Free Trial<\/a><\/p>\n![\"online](\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Online-rental-applciation-pull-quote.png\")
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