Online Rental Applications and Security

Although we live in a time where the internet has made many things exponentially more awesome, we also live in a time when the internet has made some things a little bit more scary, especially when it comes to you personal information and privacy.  It seems like every time you visit a new site, they want more and more details about you before you even get a chance to decide if you trust them!  At Rocket Lease, we understand how off-putting that is, which is why you should know that we take your personal security very seriously.

Since the rental application process requires a great deal of personal information, oftentimes even asking for your social security number, we know that you might find Rocket Lease a little bit scary itself, particularly if you have never availed yourself of our services before.  But we know how important keeping your personal information is to you, whether you are a landlord or a tenant so we want to assure you that you are safe with us. 

RocketLease uses sophisticated encryption technology to send your information through the internet.  This includes bank level security on our site as well as SSL secure connections throughout rocketlease.com.  When you use Rocket Lease either to provide your tenants with an easy and efficient way to apply for apartment online or whether you are submitting an application for your dream loft, your personal information will not be seen by anyone that you haven’t expressly granted permission to.  Not even the Rocket Lease team will have access to unencrypted application data throughout the entire process. 

What this level of security means for you is that the Rocket Lease online rental application is actually more secure than a paper application.  Think about it this way: it would be much easier for a hard copy of an application to fall into the wrong hands than it would be for someone to gain access to your data through our system.

Rocket Lease also utilizes an electronic signature, through the trusted and established third party Docusign software, which allows us to transmit legally binding signatures without the hassle and security risk of a printed copy.   You can find more information about the legality of online signatures on our FAQ page.

If you have further questions about the Rocket Lease, don’t hesitate to visit rocketlease.com and get in touch with one of our trained professionals.

Why to Switch to an Online Rental Application

If you’ve been following this blog at all, you have probably figured out by now that the main purpose of Rocket Lease is to streamline the apartment rental process for both landlords and applicants.  (And if you haven’t been following, now you know!)  Even though we know it sounds attractive to streamline and simplify, we also know that sometimes even good change is difficult and scary.  This can be particularly true for those people who are set in their ways.  

Whether you believe in it or not, there’s a reason that people claim you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  Not that we mean to compare you to a dog, but if you’ve been a landlord for a long time, that means you’ve also been using paper rental applications for a long time.  Until very recently, that was your only option.  One way or another you have made due with paper applications: you’ve found potential tenants, collected their information and rented apartments over and over all without the benefit of an online rental application so why should you change your ways now?  I bet you can see where this is going: turns out there are a lot of reasons to consider switching to an online application system for your property.  And, you guessed it, I’m going to tell you what those reasons are!

You’ll Save Time & Time is Money

Plain and simple: collecting your rental applications online is faster and easier than using paper applications.  Instead of fussing with fax machines or even waiting for the mail, you’ll have applications delivered to you instantly via the Rocket Lease dashboard.  This means you can make decisions faster which will let you fill your vacancies faster. Every minute you save by being able to quickly scan applications, reject unsuitable applicants with one click and even run a credit check through RocketLease without expending any of your own resources, is a minute you can spend doing something else.

You’ll Find Better Tenants Because You’ll Find More Tenants

When you use an online rental application service like Rocket Lease, you’ll get more potential tenants applying for your vacancy, period.  For our part, we suggest that landlords post a link to their RocketLease application in their initial vacancy listing as a way to screen applicants before they even come to the door, which saves time for both you and them.  Taking the application process online also allows you to accept applications from renters who are in another city or even across an ocean.  By broadening your tenant horizons, you’ll have a much better chance of finding the perfect tenant, and you’ll do it fast so that you won’t have any units sitting vacant.

Today’s Tenants Want It

Sometimes it probably seems like tenants are always asking for things: fix my garbage disposal, I have a leak, the neighbor’s dog won’t stop barking.  But there is one thing that they want from you that will actually make your life easier, too: they want to be able to apply to apartments online.  According to the National Apartment Association, a whopping 88% of tenants want the option to apply to an apartment online.  And this is one instance where it’s so easy to give them exactly what they want! 

Why RocketLease?

If I’ve done a sufficient job of convincing you that online rental applications are the way of the future that will actually simplify your business and your life, I have to suggest that you pop over to Rocket Lease and sign up for free.  The Rocket Lease service is completely free to you.  Rocket Lease is efficient, effective, and easy to use.  Not to mention the additional tenant screening option we also offer, making our site a one stop shop for your online rental application needs.

If you’re still not convinced, head over to rocketlease.com anyway for more details about our services and to get all your questions answered.

How Does a RocketLease Application Work?

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 RocketLease 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.

Welcome to the Rocket Lease Blog!

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!