—In all criminal cases, contempt cases, and other cases filed pursuant to this chapter, if a party has sold, leased, or let real estate, the title to which was not in the party when it was offered for sale, lease, or letting, or such party has maintained an office bearing signs that real estate is for sale, lease, or rental thereat, or has advertised real estate for sale, lease, or rental, generally, or describing property, the title to which was not in such party at the time, it shall be a presumption that such party was acting or attempting to act as a real estate broker, and the burden of proof shall be upon him or her to show that he or she was not acting or attempting to act as a broker or sales associate.

I'm finding a lot of people can't come up with three months deposit; plus I'm wondering if they have a good background check; verify job;no evictions; or criminal background; is it OK only to charge first and last month and maybe 2 to 2.5 income to rent ratio  after studying Brandon's book I can't seem to find those types of tenants that are described in his book 1ST Three times the income to monthly rent2ND three months down deposit $ that's the question that I'm fine it hard to find a tenants  

We approve based on meeting the tenants and their credit/background/criminal/eviction reports, as well as their current employment and income levels.

I know everyone has a different plan, but im curious about using credit scores to screen tenants, in my location, if a perspective tenant has good credit, they would buy a house, I just run them on CCAP,  and look for criminal, and Judgements, also when you meet with them pay attention to how they keep their car, tells you alot,  Source of income, and social media, I dont do a credit check, but I guess if you have a hyper competitive A or A+ unit, maybe it makes sense. just my 2 cents.   

Tenants will have bad credit and often criminal records.

We interview our customers along with credit/criminal/background.  

Also why would you want that liability as god forbid there was a fire and sprinkler didn't work you would most likely have criminal and civil charges against you (note I am not a lawyer)

We are renting in a low-income area so a general "no criminal history" and "credit history must be x" or "must have had job for a year" may not be the right approach. 

I did all the demo, tile work (never doing again), install cabinets and hardware, (they were new box cabinets from a wholesale cabinet company), installed finish plumbing, installed appliances, pressure washing of fence, drives, basement walls, framing of washer/dryer walls and a lot of minor things along the way.

It goes into a great level of detail from financial to criminal topics.