I also notice a lot of the school systems are not rated that well.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history very important!

You only need a place to track tenant information, payment history, maintenance, etc.

Several reasons: market rates, cost of operations, risks of the tenant in particular, rental history, turnover potential, loss of rent during turnover period, "hot" or "cold" market, etc.

From recent history, mortgage rates historically are low even today, compared to the past.

@Craig Reedchampions school of real estate 

Ive also been listening to BP since before even graduating high school.

Do we really want the government to rely on getting more people to smoke more marijuana in order to do their job protecting us and maintaining our infrastructure and schools?

I liked the smaller towns with nicer schools.

The only real way to create a "warning" is to pursue them legally to get an arrest or to get a money judgment - both of which will show on a background check.Although, all the tenant rights advocates are pushing to STOP landlords from being able to consider criminal history in tenant screening:(