You can also check the crime map, or the sex offenders registry, if there's a heavy amount of them it signifies low standards and a C-/D area.   

Glad my E book on out of state investing what to do and not do to save your skin  worked good for you LOL...yes fake lenders is worse than fake news.. there is no lender that gives below market rate loans.. and these guys troll social media and BP is a major target being one of the biggest in the world.how about the property investing forum in AU do you get hit there as well. ?

"Local Airbnb Turns Drug Den Sex Party!!"

So you get a U-shaped curve for work you need to put into a property.

She goes on to explain one brother is a level 1 sex offender because of trouble he got into at 18 and he is now 25.

@Joe Au 

She might be working in sex work or something and not want to endure the paperwork.Speaking of which, shouldn't the tenant do the credit check since they are extending credit to a landlord who might abuse the money and not keep up the place?

He's a controversial figure, but without his business model all those who were evicted, are registered sex offenders, or just generally gross would be homeless. 

I cannot give much advice regarding the NZ market but I do invest heavily in but AU and US markets. 

I really do need to make a list and include it in the leasing packet but I haven't done it yet.Dumbest calls: My dryer won't start (the installer had turned off the breaker), there is a cat outside meowing at night keeping my kids up, I can hear the neighbors having sex, there is water on the floor (they left the window open and it rained), my AC wont start (they had turned off the breaker because the fan was too loud), my kids locked me out (my units do not have self locking door knobs only keyed deadbolts and one way deadbolts from the inside, the kids had locked the one way deadbolt...what do you want me to do lady?