@Joel Owens,GA allows for criminal charges for a bounced check in addition to the civil remedies available.As for the lien, it's possible that could work or at least work well enough to get them to cough up the $500.

They will help with reviewing contracts, criminal and traffic cases, too.

Zero criminal record.Full security paid in advanceNo rent discountAll the year's rent money gets deposited in an account in my bank.With automatic every-month rent-payment transfer to my account.With the ability for me to block the automatic rent payment transfers any time I want.No more than a year's lease term and I might want month-to-month.stephen------------ Originally posted by @John D.

A simple way would have been to file elder abuse charges against these homeless people mooching off the person in the house and have them locked up.The things you were mentioning definitely sounds like criminal and willful abuse.

You can usually do the criminal check for free. 

Some of those also have criminal drug laws that forbid individuals from selling illicit narcotics.  

They provide credit scores along with a criminal report as well.

Is a sorry state of affairs when you start paying criminals for their wrong doings.Cash for keys started out with tenants who were victims of foreclosure, due to their landlord not being able to make their mortgage repayments.

no worries though, it's cursory, and looking to keep out criminals, etc.  

I need to run a credit and criminal background check.