No offence but I have yet to come across anyone that knows what they are talking about on BP when it comes to lead gen!

I do outline all of what I am looking for from a tenant: i.e. 3x monthly rent in income, no evictions or criminal background, strong credit, and that I will be reaching out to prior landlords and employers.This normally will elicit feedback prior to showing if any of those may be issues.

If there is minimal or no criminal history or negative history to speak of, it usually produces the report within an hour or two.

Sure you probably won't get caught with <$5,000 of deductions, but its not scalable and could have criminal or civil suit ramifications at the extreme.

In fact in my state they can be charged with a criminal offense if they do that.

If you deny them for something that the screening process revealed (bad credit, criminal history, poor references, etc) refund the deposit minus the app fees.

I have put together the following plan of action, based on a lot of research on this forum and elsewhere, my hope is that some of you more enlightened/experienced than me will take a look and provide feedback for me.Today - Jan 25 (for reference)Step 1 - Send a follow up email to every lead received online thanking them for their interest, specifying my rental requirements (income 3x rent, no criminal history, no bad debt history, etc), and providing a pdf of the rental application.

Doing your due diligence is crucial to the success of your rental, so taking the right steps like pulling criminal, credit and eviction reports, calling references, and asking the right questions is key.

I do not know why he isn't in jail, his negligence is at a criminal level. 

I would never in a thousand years do a syndication as a sponsor.. when they go bad its really ugly for both the investor and the sponsor .. investors take a beating on principal and many sponsors get rung up by the SEC and sometime criminally.