.: It's not an issue IF their lease is scheduled to expire.My personal practice: when a tenant submits an application, I let them know I intend to contact their former landlords.

We embrace S8 applicants, but screen them just like any other applicant.Many have an entitlement mentality and try to leverage their S8 voucher by pretending to be helpless:1) A percentage won't apply because they expect a landlord to waive application fees for them.2) Many cry broke and expect a landlord NOT to charge them a security deposit.3) Many of those same S8 tenants trying to avoid paying a security deposit, won't make an effort to call the list of nonprofits we send them that will pay their security deposit if they apply.4) A lot of them try to avoid paying for utilities.

Be extremely cautious when processing your next applicant, this one seemed doomed from the start.

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They told me they have a few SB-9 applications in process and expect it to take 3-4 months (ADUs they're deciding within 30 days).

I don't know Ohio's laws regarding disclosure, so it sounds like that may not be applicable. 

You screen applicants because you don't know them!

My tenants Lease Agreement expired May 2023, putting them Month to Month, is this still applicable?

Our biggest climate risks in central Texas are typically wind and hail, so anything of concern regarding the roof could get an applicant declined including trees too close to the roof surface, roof over 10 years old, etc.

Quote from @Teekap Pate: Hello, I have my first tenant application for my investment property come in.