I’ve realized that very few people know that real estate agents are also qualified to help individuals when they are looking for a home or apartment to rent -or- when they have a house or apartment that you would like to rent out to tenants
As you might know, there is even a section on REALTOR.ca for properties that are being offered for lease so that potential tenants can search by geographic region, budget, etc. This is a great location to publicly display a rental property with a national audience, especially seeing as a number of corporations, government agencies, etc only transfer staff to areas for short periods of time; and as a result, rental is the preferred method of housing.
Your real estate agent can be your eyes and ears in the local rental marketplace and assist you with things like negotiating rent, drafting leases, tenant screening, etc that will help you make informed decisions so before you hit Kijiji and start calling the numbers in local newspaper ads, give a local real estate agent a call and see which properties are available for rent in the organized real estate community.
