The renter pool is so much better here, and the real estate professionals and contractors are much more plentiful which allows you to be in the drivers seat a bit more. 

I don't think you can really ask someone to fill out a full application that will have a lot of personal information on it prior to showing a place.It will turn off a good tenant so I'd expect to only get the bottom of the barrel that would be happy to just send you their SS#, driver's license, bank account info, etc. without even seeing a place.Now I don't think it is unreasonable to do a little mini app with some basic questions and some of the screening methods mentioned above.

I would then put yourself in the drivers seat and lay out your terms for them staying with the other option being eviction. 

Did you see the recent article the Dominos driver discovered their regular customer neeeded assistance?

Cant go wrong with Honda/Acura...even the drivers seat foam seems to never breakdown...Vivianne Salazar I commend your loyalty to a stick shift......I gave mine up....the 405 freeway broke my during rush hour...but I miss that 5-speed Acura. 

Copy of their passportCopy of F1 visaCopy of I20 issued by their school (this usually shows school, major, their sponsor, etc.)Copy of drivers license if they have one.

It puts them in the driver's seat.

I check to make sure application addresses provided match the credit report, checks and drivers license.

For the others I have my daily driver, a 2016 Civic. 

I just had to send a copy of my driver's license to the child support division so they could show it to the father, who verified I was not her.But, yes, weird stuff can show up during title searches.