As long as credit, criminal, gut feeling, and income check out your probably fine.  

In my most recent deal we did a deed in lieu but the person was a druggie with a criminal history.

Now , for screening , i'm under the assumption that the basic things that should be followed are credit, criminal and a past landlord check.

We thoroughly screen all tenants including doing a criminal background check.

Good tenants aren't going to want to stay in those really bad areas except ones that have no choice.If this is a larger complex installing a fence around the place and an electronic gate at the entrance helps keep criminals out.

She violated the lease by moving a guy in so I asked her to leave (I probably wouldn't have cared if he didn't have a violent criminal history).

Lassen) It should be a tourist haven, as it once was, but no more.Redding is much like many other areas in California, reeling from the crash of the market, and crushed by the AB109 and Prop 47, both of which have released tens of thousands of criminals back onto the street, many of them violent offenders.

The results from Smartmove, which provides credit, criminal and eviction reports, combined with our tenant verification via former landlords and income verification, has improved considerably the quality of our tenants.  

One way is to look at the street address of the court record and the address history of the person as shown in the credit report.When I check criminal records on tenants and contractors, I use name and known addresses; for tenants I tell them that a match of name and date of birth on a criminal record is considered a match (I am not going to go crazy trying to determine if two or more people with the same name and date of birth exist).

From the outside the unit has been deemed in good condition and the neighborhood is ok (going uphill), criminality is low.Rent seem to be high for 1/1s, the agent tells me it is because there is no offer for low rents in the area.