Criminal background checks

[Jennifer MacDonald]

New landlord here..applications come thru with a clean criminal background check.  I also look up potential tenants on social media, mugshots.com, google them and find plenty of arrest but no actual adjudication or case has been turned over to other agencies etc.  I do check names, DOB, pictures to make sure it is the same person especially with common names.  How do other landlords handle such issues? Meaning-do ANY arrests raise eyebrows, certain types or crimes you avoid or as long as the criminal background check was good you just wave it off? 

Second part, is I have a property management company.  I am trying to get them to clarify for me how they go thru their background checks. Is it common for other property management groups to just run the criminal background check and not look further into other potential issues ex: arrest reports, etc.?  

Quickly finding my learning curve is still quite high despite months of research