In the Sale and Rental of Housing: No one may take any of the following actions based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or handicap:Refuse to rent or sell housingRefuse to negotiate for housingMake housing unavailableDeny a dwellingSet different terms, conditions or privileges for sale or rental of a dwellingProvide different housing services or facilitiesFalsely deny that housing is available for inspection, sale, or rentalFor profit, persuade owners to sell or rent (blockbusting) orDeny anyone access to or membership in a facility or service (such as a multiple listing service) related to the sale or rental of housing.That's my highlight on familial status.

I have a felony, I'm on the sex offender registry (downloading child porn) and I broke my lease (when I went to prison).

“Good quality” is determined by the attributes that you listed above and not by race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, age, or disability.4.If there was a service that provided a list of good quality tenants looking for housing, would you be interested in having access to that service and soliciting those tenants?

They won't have sex until married and apparently don't stop once they do wed!

If you find the rents are really 900 on the low end base your rents on 750 to 800 a unit.The reason for this is you want QUICK lease up to generate cash flow as you rehab and go along.If you try to charge top rent it takes longer to get tenants and turn over is more because if people lose income they want to down size or move to save money.At a cheaper rent you will get many more applications.You can then sift and sort the best possible tenants to sign up (no sex offenders,pit bulls,felony convictions,judgements and evictions,meets 3 time rent ratio for income,etc.

Screening the sex offender registry (using applicant's personal information, etc.) isn't legally required that I'm aware of, but many landlords have this policy in place.

Last one left me a large box of self help tapes (ironic), how to improve your sex life dvds(yuk) , and a new sofa(sold on craigs list...thank you).

-also you can check the background easily on your state's judiciary case search and/or sex offender registry.

A tenant that wants to move fast is a red flag and I never believe them.I never let them move on the weekend when I can't verify anything.I have credit checks,criminal,check for judgements,call back at least 2 generations of landlords back,check sex offender registry (not a protected class),job verification,pay stubs,banks statements etc.If they are truly motivated and tired of this landlord then they will work hard to give you those items you request.If they give partial or nothing they are lying about something or holding something back.They might have not paid the landlord rent for awhile and have to leave and have enough money to pay you first month and move in but after that nothing else.I would also visit where they live now.If they are pointing out cosmetic and ticky tack items and the place looks good then they are just a high maintenance tenant.I have a tenant that gave me a 2 page list of stuff to fix.I told them they accepted the condition when they moved in which was functioning and clean.I did fix a roof pan that needed replacing.They haven't bothered us since.If you do not stand firm with tenants they will take and take.One day your their best friend ever when they need something fixed and then when they pay the rent you are the evil landlord who never fixes anything.

Felony crimes are yet another website to search.And in PA, there is a separate "Megan's Law" site for sex offender searches.And never forget to use Google - you'd be surprised what shows up in their MySpace (especially now that few are going there to maintain) and Facebook sites.So, I can sometimes look in lots of places to vet a tenant application.