@Laura RechesYou may not actually need their SSN on an application - there are ways that you can still get credit and criminal reports without you needing to have that on the rental application.  

They charge $30 after the BP discount for general members, and that gets credit report, criminal background check, and they just added an eviction check feature (that I frankly don't know anything about).  

If so, do you require a screening (criminal, credit, etc.)?

BH-I agree these criminals will steal ANYTHING, especially when on drugs, etc...

Hopefully he gets hit with some criminal charges.

:One man's opinion -Buyer's, if they are not themselves members of the MLS system, are not bound by its rules and I don't see how anything she did violates the law.There are civil and criminal laws. 

Complaints to the city that brought out an inspector, who tried to enter on Nov. 17, failed and never returned.In such cases, said Robert Weisberg, a Stanford law professor and co-director of the school’s Criminal Justice Center, someone responsible for the property can be convicted of involuntary manslaughter if “a reasonable person under the circumstances would have realized there was some high probability of death.”I'm not going to post the entire article, but it has a decent summary of what it takes for a landlord to expose themselves to criminal prosecution. 

If it gets through tenants will no longer need criminal reports to claim abuse and leave.

There was no criminal activity if there is no police report.

Money laundering assumes that the source of funds is from criminal activities.