to speak to your point I think we are seeing this up in the ND oil fields.I know of many AU investors that got talked into buying single motel rooms..

I just ran a search and figured out that a registered sex offender is currently living in one of the units.

., but the biggest problem is that shortly after they moved in my husband and I discovered that the male is a registered sex offender, meaning that he lied on his signed application.

It is illegal to discriminate based on race, religion, sex, etc... a landlord running a credit check on one potential tenant and not the other is an example of discrimination.Other than that, once you've verified your tenant you will feel comfortable handing over the keys to the property.

Hello,My name is Ben, I'm a U of Minnesota Alumni and am working full time as a project manager in the printing industry.

You can go to your state's online criminal search (if there is one) and perform a search on anybody's name; likewise for sex offender searches.

As others have mentioned, you have to establish criteria for acceptance and rejection ahead of time and put that into writing; in your criteria, you can say what sorts of offenses are worthy of forgiveness (such as misdemeanors more than 5 years ago) and those unforgivable (sex offense).  

@Manolo D. and @Billy Au-Yeung - this makes sense, you confirmed how critical the ARV is.

You don't know if his new career choice in his first week is trafficking sex slaves through austin....Or if he has a nice habit of blasting music at midnight....You get the point.....Someone without a steady full time job/school has proven trouble to me in tenants with too much time on their hands....

Hi @Stephen Au, welcome to BP!