So I am currently a senior in college and am pursuing a degree in finance.

Some tactics are in varying degrees state by state.  

My current roommates turned the heat up to 75-80 degrees repeatedly, I have come home and found the door to the outside wide open in the middle of winter with nobody around, that furnace was crankin!

A while ago, I posted to the forums, "What would be the best college degree to compliment my REI career?"

We're in a heat wave right now - it's about 25 degrees outside! 

It sounds like your sewer line runs out toward the street, then turns 90 degrees running parallel to the road and the neighbor's sewer ties into yours?  

CLAIMS FOR EXCESS PROCEEDS.(5) to each former owner of the property, as the interest of each may appear, provided that the former owner:(A) was a defendant in the judgment;(B) is related within the third degree by consanguinity or affinity to a former owner that was a defendant in the judgment; or(C) acquired by will or intestate succession the interest in the property of a former owner that was a defendant in the judgment.

@Lynn M.I will agree that a tenant with good credit is better and playing the waiting game is a better strategy for many property owners, especially for properties in high demand.For those who own property in less desirable areas where the applicant pool is smaller or in situations where paying the mortgage without collecting rent would put the owner in a bad financial position, I think simply checking for judgments and criminal records is good enough.Of course I'm willing to accept a higher degree of risk than most property owners because my costs are lower due to the fact that I process my own evictions and many times do the clean-outs/repairs myself.I've learned that it is good idea to at least check for non-existence of rental judgments because that is a sign that either they will leave the property when asked or that they've never rented a property before in their own name because they are young.

I have a masters degree and my husband a bachelors.

I started racing right out of high school, so no college degree which eliminates doctor/lawyer/cpa/dentist/stockbroker...