What do you put the most weight on when screening tenants?

[Jonathan Sher]

We are all after the perfect evidence of a good tenant: Good credit score, secure job with plenty of monthly income, no criminal history etc. But it seems like its so hard to find all 3 in one person. It always seems like there are two of the things but not all three. What do you guys put most of your weight on?

For example, I found a lady that seems to have strong moral character, makes 2.8 times the gross rent, has no criminal background, no landlord judgements or evictions, but has credit issues.

Compare her to someone that has filed bankruptcy, or has wage garnishments plus bad credit. It seems like its hard to get that "perfect" tenant.