Let the tenants know that you have heard of some crime in the area so you are going to be monitoring.

If he has good credit, I would give him a pass and monitor the situation closely.

I use a third party service that gets applicants consent by email to run their report which is sent to me.Open houses can be a mess because if you have 30 people show up, it is difficult to monitor everyone and what they're doing while you're showing the property.

Knowing that, they should have monitored him until he was gone.

The primary purpose of the Internet (FibreOp) drop at the property if for our building monitoring/management system.  

I collect rent, issue receipts, post notices, process invoices, monitor security reports and run the office alone a couple days a week.

One neighborhood charges me $350/year for a "rental permit", with the money from this fund going to a part time "covenant enforcement" person, whose job it is to monitor rentals.

You'll probably need to send either (30) or (60) day Notice of change of Terms and/or Notice to Correct or Quit  and or Terminate.Does not sound like an ideal rental house from an investor perspective and your distance makes management and monitoring difficult.

The cost savings from preventing this alone will almost always pay for meters.Ryan:I am familiar with sub-metering in a variety of contexts - and have written/developed monitoring/control systems for remote management of meters.  

On top of that, there is no governing entity monitoring who is even certifying these animals.