Plus, it gives you a reason to deny - if they lie on the application, which gets revealed by the credit report.

If he is an interested applicant see what else his financial story reveals to you.

If you required the other tenants to reveal if they had a companion animal and fill out the animal's information on your forms, then this tenant should as well. 

Open up the floor registers and clean them out, this is not only good for your HVAC system, but also will reveal things like cigarette butts (unauthorized smoking), pet food (unauthorized pets), and the occasional kid toy (this is okay, since finding a barbie shoe or the missing lego will make a child happy.) 3.

An hoest ten a bit will reveal any blemishes (bk, student loan default, medical collection) that you can verify which will add a few "credibility points" with me if I'm going to consider them.

I will remind myself of the tenant who had no intent of fulfilling a one year lease and only revealed this to me in passing toward the end of the showing.

This is what a quick google search revealed:  In Michigan, possession must be actual, visible, open, notorious, exclusive, hostile, continuous, and uninterrupted for the statutory period of 15 years.The laws in VA where I live are written the same way.   

Running a credit report would reveal their current address.

Inspection revealed no issues with the home.

And if they fake it both of those places a photo ID check ought to reveal that, right?