Poor communicators, poor housekeeping skills, prescription med abuse, big dogs that they couldn't properly care for, damaging, etc.

., property damage) could jeopardize their assistance, encouraging them to be responsible.- Inspections: Some programs require annual property inspections to ensure compliance with their standards, which can occasionally be demanding.- Damage Risk: As with any tenant, there’s potential for property damage.

If rent payments are missed or damages occur, this gives you legal recourse against any or all tenants.Best Practices:Professional property managers, like those managing rentals across North Texas, always screen every adult living in the home.

• How do leases typically handle furniture/appliance damage or wear?

Seems like you should not have to but showing they broke house rules leading to damage may help. 

Does anyone have a template or method that they use in order to screen tenants effectively in order to reduce the risk of non payment and damage to the property? 

Every customer is assigned to a group of team members there and I imagine each team varies slightly in quality given the human element!

When the tenant moves out and the funds are distributed either to the tenant or the landlord for damages, then the subaccount for that specific tenant has a zero balance and that subaccount is closed. 

You'll have tenants that don't pay, damages made, and potentially other disasterous situations occur on your properties. 

If all this billions upon billions upon billions of damage WAS because of carbon caused climate change.....