Rental Inspection Consent Form: Fill & Download for Free

Before you post your home for rent, go here and get a rental license. For the inspection portion, they say they’ll call you to schedule it, but they won’t. Wait two weeks, call them, and they’ll schedule it within the next couple of weeks. You can go ahead and rent your property while you wait for that process to play out if you’re fairly sure it will pass inspection (inspection punch list at that link), as there is no penalty for renting AFTER you apply but before the inspection unless there are uncured code violations. Just be sure that if you rent it before the inspection you get the tenant consent form signed by each tenant (you’ll need one per adult tenant)…the inspectors won’t even walk through the door until you hand them that form.From that point, I’d say just post on Craigslist. You can also advertise on Zillow and its affiliates for free, so that doesn’t hurt. But most people around here use Craigslist. While your place is on the market, you’re going to get solicitations from people/businesses who claim they can rent your property for more/faster. If you’ve priced your place fairly, you don’t need to pay them for their services. If you’re not getting a bunch of interest quickly, you’ve probably overpriced your home. You don’t need an “expert” to tell you this. I highly recommend pricing your home slightly below the average for your neighborhood, if possible, so that you have a large pool of applicants to choose from.Once interest starts rolling in, I recommend using TransUnion’s Smart Move to screen tenants. It’s relatively low-cost, allows the tenant to enter their personal and payment information without you having to see sensitive information, and provides a complete credit report without a “hard pull” on the prospective tenant’s credit file. My tenants love that I use that…they’ve said it makes them feel secure that they’re not handing a lot of personal information over to a relative stranger and like that it’s not a hard pull on their credit. Plus, all you have to collect from interested tenants is their email address. You send an invitation to apply to their given email, and they can apply or not without a lot of chasing on your part.

Credit card payments can be a landlord’s worst enemy! The poorest business decision a landlord can make.Why? Because credit card payments can bounce worse than a bad check! A bum check might take 7–10 business days to bounce like a basketball but a contested credit card charge can bounce (charges reversed by issuer) from 2–6 months after payment.The dispute process of most major credit cards are so consumer friendly they would allow a tenant to dispute charges (rental payment) from 60 days to 6 months after payment. This insecure form of payment puts the landlord in a precarious situation.So let’s play it out. A landlord does their due diligence, they rent a unit to a husband and wife.The husband wipes out his Visa card and pays landlord 1 month security deposit and 1st month’s rent. The husband signs the lease; the landlord scans it and emails it to wife in Florida. She signs lease and emails it back to landlord and snailmails the original. So far, so good. Everything is honkey dorey. Landlord crossed their t’s and dotted their i’s. Then it happens!The wife arrives from Florida on move in day and upon inspection of rental abruptly changes her mind and informs landlord that she is reneging on signed lease and wants a full refund from broker and landlord. The broker instructs her of the legal ramifications of such an ill-advised decision and she says, “No legal problem here, I’m going to call my credit card company and tell them someone fraudulently used my card without my permission and consent”namely my husband.Long story short, she carried through on her credit card refund strategy and it worked. The credit card company became the judge, jury and verdict and summarily reversed the charges and brought her whole. The landllord and broker both lost their money and had to start the process all over again.Why am I so familiar with this story? Because it happened to me. It was one of my many failure lessons or mistakes that I made in my illustrious real estate career. This mistake did not hamper or weaken my business, it actually strengthened my businees model by teaching me first hand the perils of accepting credit cards in real estate transactions. I learned this education so the landords I represent and the agents I train won’t make the same costly mistake. Sometimes in life your “Failed Experiences” can be your greatest teaching tools and ultimatly fuel your success.

Get NOC (no objection certificate) and reregisterProcedure for re-registering a vehicleStep one: In your home stateYou will need to procure two documents from your home state, where your vehicle has been previously registered:1) Police report from any police station at your hometown to authenticate your records.2) No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the original Registered Transport Office (Transferor) in CMV Form 28.Step Two: In KeralaApproach your area’s concerned Regional Transport Office (RTO) office. Here you are required to submit the following documents. Those items that are starred (*) are compulsory.NOC in the CMV Form 28 or a postal acknowledgment that states that you have applied for the issue of NOC with the registering authority (in quadruplicate) *CMV Form 27 - Application for Kerala Registration Mark *CMV Form 33 - Change of Address (will cost around Rs 300) *KMV Form 27 - Intimation of Migration *State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB) report - can be obtained from 7th Floor, MS Building, KR Circle and costs about Rs 20 *RC bookTax card with proof of payment of taxVehicle Insurance CertificatePollution Under Control (PUC) CertificateConsent of financier (if applicable)Fitness Certificate and permit in case of transport vehiclePurchase invoice (for RTO to arrive at tax amount) *Three passport size photographsID Proof of applicant (Pan card/Voter ID card/Passport ID/Ration card) *Present Address Proof (Rental agreement, Employee contract letter) *Electricity or telephone bill of local premisesSelf addressed postal envelope with adequate stampage (for RTO to mail documents)Form KMV 14 - Payment of Tax (this will be given to you once you submit all the documents over the counter)Demand Draft for tax amount to be paid in favour of Regional Transport Officer (Cash payment can be made for tax amount up to Rs 3000)In case the vehicle has not been inspected earlier, the RTO may ask to produce it for inspection as well.The forms above can be obtained from the RTO office or can be downloaded online free of cost. There are typically several shops near the RTO office which sell the form as well.