Evan Dodds – Non-work-related blog

In our quest to better understand the landlord/renter experience, Jodi and I have both been doing some investigations on the process.

For my part, I recently (and fairly quickly) ran through two books that had caught my eye and which I reserved from the library: Every Landlord’s Guide to Finding Great Tenants and (I suppose it’s the opposing viewpoint) Renter’s Rights: The Basics.

I won’t spend much time on them because they’re really intended as condensed reference books on both sides of the landlord/renter equation. I did find it a bit amusing how the two books addressed the same exact topics from a different perspective, however. Example: both books talked about landlords doing screening for tenants… the landlord book talked about how important it was to do it right, and gave tips on how to cut through the smokescreen some tenants would try to put up. However, the renter book pointed out all of the things landlords can’t legally check (wink wink).

Very informative, both books. I expect I’ll work my way through some others in this series as we go on learning.