Archive for February 28, 2012

How Does a Rocket Lease Application Work?

'01 (158)' photo (c) 2012, Victor1558 - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Since the core of our business is the online rental application, we want to make sure that the process is as easy to understand as possible. That’s why we thought we’d take a minute (or a post) in our blog to explain an online rental application, step by step.
Our customers are landlords and property managers, so if that’s you, you’re in the right place. If you’re a tenant or a rental applicant and you’re curious about where your information is going when you apply for an apartment with Rocket Lease, feel free to stick around.

Sign Up

The first thing you’ll do when you decide you want to take advantage of the Rocket Lease online rental application is to sign up for our service. Signing up is completely free and will only take you about 3 milliseconds. Ok, that may be a slight exaggeration, but the truth is that all we need from you is your email address and a password that you create an you can probably type those two things faster than you can say RocketLease to the rescue! Not that we say that around the office or anything…

Create an Application

Once you have an account, you’ll be able to create a customized rental application (view a sample rental application) for your vacancy. We’ll ask you a few simple questions about the unit you’re renting and create the application form for you so it’s unique for your property as well as professional in design and functionality.

Find New Tenants

Believe it or not, that’s everything you have to do before you’re ready to start accepting and sorting through applications. When you get a potential applicant, whether it’s online or in person, you can give them the custom url that we’ve generated.

All a prospective tenant has to do is visit the url and enter his or her information, depending on the specifications you made when you created your application. Tenants don’t have to create a Rocket Lease account in order to submit an application, which makes the process attractively simple for them as well.

The Rocket Lease Dashboard

With just a few clicks, an potential tenant’s application will appear instantly on your Rocket Lease dashboard. You’re even able to keep track of applications that have been started but not completed and send deadline reminders to those applicants who haven’t quite finished the process.

The Rocket Lease dashboard also offers an elegant and user-friendly interface to view, organize and ultimately accept or reject applications for your rental. We think it really beats a filling cabinet and a paper shredder.

Hopefully this step by step has proven to you how utterly simple it is to create and accept online rental applications at Rocket Lease. Remember, you can always get more details and have all your questions answered over at rocketlease.com.

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Welcome to the Rocket Lease Blog!

'Welcome' photo (c) 2011, Ramesh NG - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Whether you popped over here from our main site or found us some other way, we’re glad that you’re here.  This is the first of what will hopefully be many useful and interesting blog posts from the RocketLease team.

We set up this blog so that we could easily connect to all the people that we know can benefit from our spectrum of leasing services.  Whether you’re a landlord, a renter, an apartment hunter, a property owner or leasing agent, this blog is for you.  You might want to add it to your bookmarks because this will also be the best place for you to stay in the loop about the latest Rocket Lease updates and any and all company news, as it happens.

I realize that if you’re new to the site, I might be getting a little bit ahead of myself, so let me take a moment to let you in on what exactly it is we do here at RocketLease.

What We Do

Rocket Lease is a multifaceted site for landlords, property owners, property managers and tenants that aims to streamline and ultimately improve the leasing and rental process for everyone from the busiest to property owner to the most harried apartment hunter.  In this day and age, we truly believe that one of the easiest ways to make a process like applying for rental units easier to take it online (at least as much as possible — believe me, I wish we could move your sofa online too, but we’re not quite there yet).

With this in mind, RocketLease.com offers landlords a simple and efficient way to accept rental applications online, without bringing a single scrap of paper into the process.  As a landlord, you simply create an account, enter some facts about your vacant unit and you’re on your way.  We’ll provide you with a url that you can give to potential applicants, then they’ll go online and fill out the application that you have customized.  Through RocketLease.com you’ll be able to track each application as it comes in through our elegant custom dashboard.  You can easily and quickly sort, accept and reject each application without ever having to worry about misplacing or misfiling those applications that you want to keep track of.

If you’re a potential renter, we’re streamlining the process for you, too! We know that it’s more than a pain to fill out application after application and have to hand deliver them to each landlord.  With Rocket Lease, you can complete all your information from home and send it to your new landlord easily and instantly.

Sending and receiving rental applications through the Rocket Lease service is completely secure.  We will never have access to the applicants sensitive data and our site is encrypted using bank level security so that anyone who isn’t meant to see your information won’t see it.

In addition to online rental applications, Rocket Lease offers tenant screening services to landlords who want the peace of mind that comes with checking the history and background of potential tenants.  We use information provided by applicants to check their credit, criminal history, eviction history as screening for a history of bad checks with Telecheck.

Finally, once all the applications have been submitted and you’ve found the perfect tenant (or the perfect apartment) Rocket Lease also offers online leasing services, which includes secure electronic signatures through DocuSign, meaning you can complete the entire rental process without putting a single pen to paper.

Rocket Lease believes that when it comes to the rental and leasing process, everything is easier online.  But that doesn’t mean we won’t keep the leasing tips coming here on our blog, so be sure to check back soon!

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