Where do bad tenants live?

[Sam Fickel]

Everyone in the REI community always seem to have extremely high standards for the tenants they choose - good credit, no criminal history, on time rent, absolutely 0 evictions, etc. I've never met someone that didn't have these standards.

And I 100% get it. This is a business, not a charity. The goal is to make money while providing housing, and bad tenants are more expensive and more headache.

But that makes me curious....where does everyone else go?

And on top of that, how the hell do sex offenders and convicted murderers find housing?? I mean, even the lowest-standard landlords still have rules against those two, so where can they live when they get out of prison?

To be clear... I have the same high standards for when I finish my live-in flip, so I'm not trying to do anything different here. Just curious!