Do you re-screen tenants before renewing a lease?

[David Cook]

I recently had a tenant vacate a townhouse and during a walk through prior to their leaving a noticed court documents from a neighboring county informing my tenant that his charges for "aggravated sexual battery" were being dropped.  Obviously I don't know the circumstances or what happened but had the tenant not decided to leave I would have gladly renewed his lease.  There were no payment issues and the home was always kept in great shape.  Since this happened I have been considering re-screening my tenants between leases.  I was wondering if anyone else did this or if they had other advice on how to monitor tenants post screening.

[Joshua Springer]

I've never considered doing this with a good paying tenant.  If i saw behavior that might indicate issues such as sporadic communication, late payments, messages from neighbots/relations to tenant then I would certainly entertain this idea.