I was worried most about a tenant actually doing something violent to a mobile home park owner....a down on his luck tenant, maybe lost job, going thru divorce assaulting a "rich" landlord. 

Explosive and even potentially violent. 

This includes references to both property and violent crime, but of course the latter is the far bigger concern.Since I invest in areas that I am also personally familiar with, I can merge this data with my own knowledge to determine if I wish to own property there or not.

Registered violent sex offender? 

As a result, once we receive applications with authorization to conduct background checks, what we’ve done is first run the name/DOB through the local court records, and only run a full background/credit check if we don’t find something worrisome (defaulted debts, multiple/recent evictions, violent crimes, etc.).

There are many reasons why you might not want a violent felon in your property.

@Caleb HeimsothI have the same criteria . although i will say in special cases a felony that was done in their youth and non violent I may consider .

I've read articles about how Reading housing prices continue to rise, but the number of violent crimes is also increasing. 

One she was open to managing, and one she wasn't because she knew there was a lot of violent crime.

A violent act from 20 years ago would not stop me if his record has been clean since then.The bankruptcy from 5 years ago might but it depends on the whole person.