What is Rental Que?
What does is Cost?
How long is my e-mail address marked on the homes I have interest in?
Why should I leave any other information than my e-mail address?
How does an Owner select the family to rent their home?
If a property is advertised, does that mean it’s available now?
What are Purchase Credits and how do they work?
How do purchase credits work when I want to buy the home?
If I have purchase credits, what happens if I rent a home that doesn’t allow transfer?
What do purchase Credits cost me?
Why would I want to try and use Purchase Credits?

What is Rental Que?
Rental Que is a web based network of owners/managers listing rental properties for potential renters to identify as interesting. This method places the e-mail address of a renter tied to a home, as a Que. This allows the owner to select possible renters from a list of interested people. Rental Que also provides the ability to collect purchase credits toward a Rent-To-Own program.

What does is Cost?

Rental Que is free to all potential renters. You may use the search, free, you may flag your interest in multiple homes, with no limit, for as long as you like.

How long is my e-mail address marked on the homes I have interest in?

Each month, Rental Que will verify the e-mail address is valid. If that test reveals the e-mail isn’t valid, then that address will be removed from any properties it was used to flag. As long as the e-mail address is valid, the flag is kept on the property. If the e-mail address isn’t valid, but other contact information is provided, we’ll maintain the interest flag for 60 days, attempting to contact the possible renter by whatever means is provided. After 60 days, the person is dropped.

Why should I leave any other information than my e-mail address?

If your e-mail address is no longer valid, we want to try and get in touch with you to find a valid e-mail address. If you provide a postal mailing address, cell phone number, or any other alternate way to contact you, that will help to insure your interest in a property is maintained.

How does an Owner select the family to rent their home?

Rental Que leaves that process completely up to the owners to decide. We provide them a list, in date of interest sequence, of the e-mail addresses or contact information depending on the validity of the e-mail address.

If a property is advertised, does that mean it’s available now?

No. Rental Que advertises properties for a full year, until renewed. Only an ‘Immediately available’ flag can tell you if the home is available. So you may place your name behind a home and you could receive a contact e-mail immediately, or up to a year later. We suggest you mark many homes, as having an interest in, to increase your chances of finding a home quickly. That’s why we called it Rental Que, it’s possibly a long list of people interested in a home, spread over a long period of time.

What are Purchase Credits and how do they work?

This is a feature Rental Que encourages from Owners that makes our web site unique. Purchase credits is our term for Rent-To-Own. As a renter, you can build credits in homes you rent, to allow you to use those when you choose to buy that home. Rental Que recommends our model, but every Owner can use their own formula for Rent-to-Own. Our model suggests Owners allow $100 a month of credits for each month a home is rented, for the first year of rent. Each year, that amount is increased by $25 a month, with a maximum cap at $225 a month. So the first year, you can accumulate $1200 in purchase credits, $1500 the second year, $1800 the third year, and so on. These credits can be used when a decision is made to purchase the home, or transferred to another home, if at any time, you should move from one Rental Que home to another, that allows purchase credits and transfer of credits. Owners and only owners can specify the conditions they will accept purchase credits or transfer credits.

How do purchase credits work when I want to buy the home?

Rental Que’s suggested model on this requires the rental home to be appraised by both the Owner and Renter. Then a simple average is made of these numbers, and a 5% increase to this average is made for the profit margin of the Owner. From that amount, the amount of purchase credits can be subtracted, to arrive at the homes purchase price. Every Owner has the right to structure their handling of purchase credits in any way they like, so every rental Owner should be asked to provide those instructions in writing, prior to a renter renting a home. Purchase credits can normally be used as a down payment, or deducted from the purchase price. There is a flag on each property that identifies which homes accept purchase credit transfers and which ones use purchase credits. You may search on those flags if this feature is important to you.

If I have purchase credits, what happens if I rent a home that doesn’t allow transfer?

If you rent a home, not in the Rental Que network, one that doesn’t allow the transfer of purchase credits, then you lose the value of those credits. Also, when you depart a home, you need to get a statement from the Owner that you have accumulated purchase credits and the amount of those, dated and signed. Breaking a lease with a Rental Que member, will also cancel any purchase credits accumulated. So if you want to rent-to-own, you need to rent from Owners that support purchase credits, and if you move to another home, you want to find a Owner that will allow transfer credits, or you will lose those credits.

What do purchase Credits cost me?

Nothing, they are absolutely free. If you rent a home from an Owner that provides purchase credits, and you choose to not collect them, you save nothing. Purchase credits encourage renters to maintain their home, maintain their lease in good standing, and take pride in the home. Owners like people that want purchase credits because they get a better quality level of renter. Rental Que was designed to try and get these two groups of people together.

Why would I want to try and use Purchase Credits?

It’s a free service if you select a home that honors them. It allows you to build credits toward eventual purchase, without costing you additional money. It allows you to transfer either to another home in the area, or even outside of another city or state, and maintain the credits you built the entire time. That feature must be verified as each owner has the right to honor or not honor credits when transferred.