I am curious if there are any pre made criteria lists out there or if there are any “must haves” for tenant screening. 

If you choose to accept it, make them apply and pass your screening, add them to the lease, and charge extra rent to make it worth your trouble.

Tenant screening is, in my opinion, the most important step in maintaining both your property and your sanity. 

@Stephen J Davis It looks like the issues you raised are with your tenants and tenant screening. 

When screening your job is to decide why you should declined them...... and this guys has LOTS of those.PASS

Buyer's agent could/should also negotiate a seller credit that makes the offer $100k, with $3k credit for buyer agent compensation, again resulting in a seller net of $94k.But now buyer has the opportunity to agree with their agent that the rate should be 2%, or a flat fee of $2k, and the buyer then pockets that savings.

If you're not working with a local agent to help you screen tenants...I would say the best way to get as many eyes on the property is create marketing material - add to local FB groups and host 2 consecutive open house weekends showing a model unit and amenities.If you're close to any University Campuses - I would also suggest to partner with the university for housing opportunities for upperclass students.Good luck with filling those up!

I just charged a flat fee and they got a discount on title and escrow services I found this to be quick and painless ,, and whats more Safe for me.. except if they never bought it back I end up owning some home in GA I never wanted in the first place..

On one of my new home developments here in Oregon I paid a construction Risk manager a flat fee of 15k.. to over see the underground process..

All the other criteria, at least based on their pre-screening responses, look passable.