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Can I reject applicants based on too many adult tenants?
If I understand correctly, I can set the maximum # of occupants per unit. Can I also include maximum # of adults. For example: Prospective tenants are 2 married adults, they have 2 sons, 21 and 24. One of the sons has a child, which would be there some of the time. I can't reject based on income. I have heard from RE agents, not previous landlords, that this family has a history of damaging properties.
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"I have heard from RE agents, not previous landlords, that this family has a history of damaging properties."
Then why on Earth would you rent to them??
Just either deny them based on something else in the application or make them put down a huge deposit to take on the risk. You hear it all the time from tenants to please take a chance on them and they get a bad rap etc.
Sure normal deposit is 1,000 but if you put 3,000 down I will consider it. They never have the money from my experience. They barely scrounged enough money to leave the last place a wreck and now want to sweet talk someone else because they want to live "in a nice unit" that they will eventually trash like the other one.
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