What to Prepare Before You Meet a Prospective Tenant
A first meeting with a prospective tenant sets the tone for the whole tenancy. Here is what Ontario property managers should have ready, and…
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A real estate brokerage in Ontario
We list your property, find your next one and negotiate on your side of the table
Avenue Business Consultancy is a registered real estate brokerage acting for property managers, tenants, sellers and buyers across Ontario. Every engagement starts with a consultation and carries through to closing.
How an engagement runs
- Introductory consultation
- Needs analysis
- Preparation and pricing
- Marketing and shortlist
- Offers, negotiation and closing
Ontario only, right across the province
Replies within one business day
First consultation at no cost
Written representation, fees agreed upfront
What we do
Representation from the first conversation to closing
We take a brief, review what you have or what you need, and advise you on price and positioning. Then we market it, bring you the offers, negotiate the terms and stay with the file until the deal closes.
Who we serve
Four sides of the same conversation
Property managers and tenants, sellers and buyers. We act for each of them, and knowing how all four read a deal is what sharpens the advice we give any one of them.
How we work
Five stages in every engagement
The same structure whether you are letting a unit, looking for one, preparing to sell or preparing to buy. Nothing moves forward without your say so.
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Introductory consultation
A 45 minute conversation, at no cost, covering your situation, your timing and what a good outcome looks like for you. If we are not the right brokerage for it, we will tell you in that call.
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Needs analysis
We work through the detail together: budget, location, condition, timelines and any constraints you are working around. The result is a written brief, and the representation agreement that sets out what we will do and what it costs.
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Preparation and pricing
We review how your property or your requirement reads to the other side, advise on price and on what to clarify, document or put right, and agree the terms you want an offer to carry.
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Marketing and shortlist
For sellers and property managers we list the property and take it to market. For buyers and tenants we put a short list in front of you with our reasoning and arrange the viewings you want.
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Offers, negotiation and closing
We prepare or present the offers, negotiate the price and the conditions on your instructions, and stay with the file through the conditional period to closing, with a short written summary at the end.
Why work with us
A small brokerage that takes on fewer files
Avenue Business Consultancy is newly established in Ontario and building its client base now, and that shapes how we work: fewer engagements at a time, more attention on each of them.
Straight advice on price
We will tell you when a price is wrong, when a property is not ready and when waiting a season is the better move. You get the honest read first, and the decision after it stays yours.
Ontario, and only Ontario
Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Hamilton, Brampton, London, Kitchener-Waterloo and the communities around them. Staying inside the province keeps our read on each neighbourhood current.
One point of contact throughout
The person who takes your first call is the person who prepares your listing or your offer and sits with you through the negotiation. Nothing is passed down a chain, and nothing gets lost in a handover.
A brief before the market
The work done before a property is listed, or before a first viewing, is what makes everything after it straightforward. We do the analysis first, which is why our shortlists are short and the negotiations that follow are quicker.
Careful with your information
What you tell us stays between us. Nothing about your position, your budget or your timing reaches the other side of a negotiation unless you instruct us to put it there.
Clear about our role
Avenue Business Consultancy is a real estate brokerage registered with the Real Estate Council of Ontario. You sign a representation agreement setting out what we do and what it costs before any work begins.
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Insights
Notes from the work
Short, practical pieces on preparing a property for market, reading an offer properly and getting more out of a first conversation. Written for people in Ontario who are weighing a move.
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Communities across Ontario
We act for clients in Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Hamilton, Brampton, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, Barrie, Oshawa, Markham, Vaughan, Guelph, Kingston and the Niagara region. Tell us where you are and we will give you an honest answer about how well we know it.
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What clients say after an engagement
Comments from our first engagements in Ontario, shortened and anonymised at our clients' request. They are illustrative of how we work rather than a promise of any particular outcome.
“I had spent six weeks looking for a two bedroom near Square One and getting nowhere. Avenue took twenty minutes to go through my budget and my commute properly, then had me through three units two days later. They wrote the offer to lease the same evening and I signed that month.”
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Priya S.
Tenant · Mississauga
“I look after eleven units and was losing every evening to the same four questions. They took the listings on, screened the applicants properly and only brought me people who actually fit the brief.”
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Dan M.
Property manager · Oshawa
“They went through my photos and my description with me and were honest about what was putting people off, which nobody else had been. The first buyer they brought through came to see the house that weekend.”
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Grace O.
Home seller · Hamilton
Start with a conversation
Tell us what you are working towards and we will come back within one business day with an honest view of whether we can help. The first consultation costs nothing and carries no obligation.