Rental application question

[Sharad M.]

Hello all,

I have couple of tenants coming over to look at one of my rentals on Saturday and I am getting application and lease ready. I was going through the rental application and it asks for copies of 2 previous tax returns or 2 years of W2. And then for the bank account information, the application I have asks for bank account and credit card account numbers. Also the application asks for loan account numbers.

The rental application you guys use asks for all this information? I am just thinking along the lines that I wouldn't feel comfortable giving my bank account numbers, CC accounts numbers and loan numbers to anyone, so why would anyone else? Can you guys please help? Do you ask for W2, tax returns and all the account numbers from each applicant? And how do applicants usually react to those requests? May be a silly question since I am a newbie.