The Beginning of your statement sounds like bird dogging but i get what your saying.and overall these are some great advice and all these apply to all of those that have this same problem right now, i always believed that  trying to get loans searching online or asking around which isnt a bad thing to do but the likely chance of someone getting a loan to help them out with a credit score this low is unlikely as some of ya said, so there is only one way to do that and that is to work and pay the debts off, mainly the utility bills that need to get tended to especially if you wanna live in your own space again, or if its for the first time.We all had some unfortunate circumstances in life, Death in the family, force to get bills put in your name by someone so they didn't take the blame of not dealing with those bills themselves, and that's someone you don't wanna live with trying to push everything on you  and make it your responsibility, sad reality but at the end of the day it gonna be your responsibility anyways later on.

They should be able to handle the dog and then you can enter the apartment and shut the water off.

Asking people specific questions when they have no dog in the hunt is the surest way for you to lose money in investing. 

Walk the neighborhoods talk to people in the coffee shop at dinner out walking their dogs at the park?

You need to give us a why you wanna chase this dog down?

They are by definition in this instance a bird dog.

If they , their dog, their child or a guest do damage then they foot the bill for the repairs.He stated he was working on the lot and as a result a window was damaged...he pays.Get the work done and bill him for the cost (do not take it from his deposit).

Greetings folks.Big time newbie here from the Inland Empire area. I am starting off slow, currently bird dogging.It is easy for me to find properties but I want to go beyond that and assist in marketing properties onc...

I have never allowed animals at any of my rentals, but we have a long term renter who has asked about getting a dog. 

Don't waste your time, that dog will not hunt.