What you're going to want to look for is an area with low violent crime... home burglaries, stolen license plates and stolen cars happen in every neighborhood, and aren't that much of a problem.

https://spotcrime.com/tn/memphis/parkway+village-o...i put in the address in spotcrime and it shows 7 assaults, vandalism and burglary all within a couple minutes walk since May 10.

The other 3 were for battery and burglary but the last names were different. 

On the street in the past 5 years, most of the calls are suspicious behavior, noise complaints, etc with a few motor vehicle burglaries and one auto theft.

Im looking at this property which is located somewhere out there in farmland in a B- class area. The property consists of 3 constructions: a 2 family house (occupied), a large garage (occupied) and a deserted office s...

All kinds of personal drama, family issues, domestic violence, crimes, burglary (your tenants being robed), drug issues, kids issues.

Hello,A tenant 'forgot' to pay the power bill for over a month, let the grass get over two feet tall, and left the house vacant for over a month.  They called me from another state telling me that the neighbor noticed...

It costs you money and it costs them an eviction on their rental history sadly. yeah, that's the plan... but searching his name in google I found that he was supposed to appear in court 2 times this summer, for home violence and for burglary..

It is easy to do, cheap, and adds value, not to mention if there was a burglary, it could be a factor that the windows were not properly screened.    

Based on the presumption it was the guests that definitely caused the damage and your PM was able to verify this vs this being a burglary: I'm no expert in STR however considering it is a STR it appears the most vetting you're going to get is whether or not the guest has a billable credit card.