In fact, that's essentially what the banks do when they wrongly foreclose on people's houses...and maybe I'm in the minority, but I still count on the government to protect me from both individual criminals as well as corporate criminals who are trying to infringe upon my Constitutional rights.

We're going to find all of the criminal activity.

My concern is that this may just be advertising a vacant property and act as motivation for would be criminals.

From a criminal liability view it does matter, but for civil damages for property damaged it is irrelevant.

Have you checked for open civil and criminal cases?

As one is working and one not, you are basically stuck with the one that is working as your primary funder.If they pass the credit history and criminal check, and there are no other candidates,and you feel pressured to get a tenant, I would make both parties sign the lease, and collect full first, last, and security deposits.

Other items to screen on:- Credit score- Job or some kind of provable income- Past rental history, call previous landlords- Criminal HistoryFor your first time, look into companies that perform the screening for $30 - $50.

Some programs will give you credit history and criminal history in the same report.

I've never experienced that before and it's great.Aside from that I'm using their ACH payment solution and their tenant screening (also $15 for full credit, criminal, eviction reports, plus prior address history).

I ran the typical criminal, eviction, and credit checks that I usually do.