Property Manager vetting

[Andrew Lawrence]

I recently heard a suggestion on vetting PMs by looking their company name up in court records to find if they have any pending lawsuits and then interviewing them based off of that knowledge (more lawsuits = more suspicious). How often do others do this as part of their vetting process for PMs? Or is this an extra unneeded step? If you do suggest this, how do you go about finding this information?