My name's Cam and I recently arrived in Tampa Bay to start my REI adventure.

And 3 of the current residents are all registered sex offenders.

It is illegal to discriminate based on race, religion, sex, etc... a landlord running a credit check on one potential tenant and not the other is an example of discrimination.Other than that, once you've verified your tenant you will feel comfortable handing over the keys to the property.

@Cam Coplin is right.

I cam across an HOA community that had a 3 br, 2 bath condo for sale for $145k, right in my wheelhouse!

So you can't mention anything in your ads about race, color, national origin, sex, religion, disability, or familial status. 

We verbally pre-screen them to make sure they don't have evictions or sex offenses or too low of income.

Retail strip centers are still more hands off than multifamily but you have management and CAM the tenants pay on top of base rent to reimburse.

Have a situation now where a retail center is assessed at a low value but has been full for awhile.The state the property is in might reassess the value based on the higher recorded purchase price.When this happens it could substantially raise the CAM tenants pay with increased taxes.

I just ran a search and figured out that a registered sex offender is currently living in one of the units.