The credit score and histories are solid, Also the judgement amount is zero for the that case.

One of those things would be to form some type of entity that will protect you personally from filing or a judgement you might have against you or your business.Never try to do everything yourself unless you have the talent.  

Just be aware that when they stop paying rent, you can go through the trouble of suing them, but you cannot collect on a judgement against anybody who is on any government income.

I think the only thing you could do at this point, since you didn't sign in time, would be to sue the seller for compensation for withdrawing the offer before the deadline, but I doubt very highly you could get a judgement for specific performance relating to him selling you the property

While social media may be helpful in getting a little insight into who you may be renting to, I wouldn't cast judgement based on what I see.

Judgement is $21,000 and some change and they agreed to leaving in 2 weeks.

All in all, we made a bad judgement call in offering on the property and backed out of the contract.Again like the first property that we offered on, we found the property we ended up buying about 2 weeks after backing out of the house in Lincoln Square.

People are taking landlords to court here and getting judgements for cost of treatment, replacement cost of furniture, etc.

I wouldn't tell the listing agent this if she/he called me as the lender when vetting offers, but it'll come down to a human judgement call on the part of the underwriter, how well I package it and write a good cover letter, etc, and not be one of those "oh slam dunk no brainer of course it will be 100% fine" type things.

In Chicago, the landlord tenant ordinance is very strict, specifically around security deposits and many landlords have lost judgements based on technicalities.