They are hoping to dazzle the landlord with the large chunk of money, so he doesn't check them out.When I am offered multiple months rent, I know the applicant has miserable credit, no verifiable income, really bad landlord references, a criminal record, is a registered sex offender, or has some other problem with his history that he doesn't want me to look at.The only time I will accept rent in advance is from a verified student who is living on grant money, and then they can pay me for advance months when the grant money arrives (every 3 months, at our local college)

The application is $30 per tenant, and that is what the credit and criminal record check costs me.

@Jacob D Cockerell No offense to all the lenders here, But if you can, DO NOT use a HML for your first flip. 

Even if I were, I pay a criminally low tax rate already.

He had a criminal record of stealing his families property and was presently in jail.

No offense but I would’ve ignored you too and used my time a lot more wisely.

The general I call for that doesn't even get out of his truck, just calls another sub and collects the payment when it's done.I dont think there is a shortage of people that can do the job, but finding ones that have a couple million dollars coverage, have legal employees that pass criminal background checks and have the patience to sit down and sign contracts and know how to get onto a corporate accounting structure for payments is the real shortage.

In most municipalities, this is a “reportable offense”.  

Residential burglary is a serious offense, so if you cannot prove tenant took it, then why would you let a serious offense slide?

He received over $1M of completely bogus IRS refunds in total.When the IRS criminal investigators finally caught up with him, the Orlando US Attorney's office declined to prosecute this upstanding citizen who, by the way, also engaged in other honorable activities such as physical abuse of his son and stealing from his late mother's estate.Telling y'all, we need to learn to work smarter, not harder.