You are over-thinking the process and will be sitting on vacancies as the market slows and tenants become harder to find.Get a YTD paystub, last year's W-2, recent bank statement, government picture ID and SSN card.

In fact since they government never takes possession, they don't even know the condition.

Most areas now have shortages of units available because many landlords have exited the business or won't rent due to bad government policy manifested by the moratoriums.

It's about who is the most convincing.A federal judge told me "everybody lies in court").It's about keeping the parties from killing each other.

This can be between 10% and 37% generally at the federal level (state taxes also apply).Gains from capital assets held longer than one year are taxed at LT gain rates, which range from 0% to 20% federally (state taxes also apply). 

If a utility is provided by a government entity in most places if the bill is unpaid that can become a lien on the property.

I made the case here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/this-housing-market-isnt-... and nothing has really changed other than a fear that the massive deficits the government is running are acting like a stimulus that's keeping the economy afloat but only for the time being. 

Thanks to super weak governance during the BLM riots Antifa and homeless.. allowing open air drug use ( legal drugs) and the killer theft under 900.00 is not enforced causing rampant thievery and many stores to close kind of like We see in the mid west and rust belt when neighborhoods change and retail exits as its not sustainable.

Military, government workers, families relocating or displaced due to a tragedy, students traveling for internships, and digital nomads are all different customers who need temporary furnished housing. 2. 

A lot of older low income single tenants I've noticed are eligible for things like SNAP and a variety of other government benefits which at least in my locale can be given to them much faster than they can be gotten to the front of a section 8 waiting list or senior housing waitlist.