The My Rental Spot Blog

Most first-time moving-out guides are shopping lists. Shower curtain, can opener, a set of towels. Useful, but nobody fails at moving out because they forgot a…

Three friends rent a house for $2,100 and agree to split it $700 each. Six months in, one of them stops paying. The other two assume they owe $1,400 between the…

Finding the perfect rental is exciting until you start worrying about whether you'll actually get approved. The rental market is competitive, and property manag…

Most tenants lose part of their security deposit for the same three reasons: they gave notice late, they skipped the final walkthrough, and they have no photos…

Moving across town is a weekend. Moving across a state line is a project with deadlines attached to it — lease notice, driver's license, vehicle registration, v…

“We need two years of verifiable rental history.” It is one of the most common lines on a rental application, and one of the least explained. Verifiable by whom…

The hour before you unpack is worth more than every other hour of your tenancy. It is the only time you can prove what the property looked like before you lived…

“No security deposit required.” It is one of the most effective lines in a rental listing, and for a renter who does not have $1,500 spare it can be the differe…

You are eight months into a twelve-month lease and you need to leave. Subletting looks like the obvious answer, and it often is — but done carelessly it leaves…

The rent is $1,500 a month, so you need $1,500 to move in. That is the assumption that catches most first-time renters out. Depending on the landlord and the st…

Your credit score tells landlords how you handle debt. But it says nothing about whether you actually pay rent on time. That's the gap Renter Score was built to…

Cleaning is the most common security deposit deduction, and it is also the easiest one to avoid. Landlords do not deduct because a place looks untidy. They dedu…