Lol, that's because half of that junk hovers around fraudulent and criminal activity.

Johnny Cochran - brilliant criminal defense attorney.

You would hold the Criminal Justice department (or what ever that branch is called in that area) responsible for any damages and rents, not the residents. 

Question...did you screen these people (credit, background, criminal and verify income).

Some jurisdictions limit how much security deposit you may collect, so be sure to check your local laws.Whether or not a person is documented or undocumented, if they enter our criminal justice system they can be found.

The general public should be warned about these criminals and not allow them to continue stealing money from the public.

Here are a couple of links regarding a Baltimore, MD landlord:http://www.epa.gov/enforcement/criminal/press/2011/murrell-cephus-07-19-11.pdfhttp://www.epa.gov/enforcement/criminal/press/2012/murrell-cephus-06-06-12.pdf

If they're over 18, I'd run a background check on them to check for any criminal history, but other than that I wouldn't care too much about their income or credit.The exception is if the parents are wanting to include their children's income in order to meet your income requirements.

At the time they targeted Asian massage parlors, cigarette sellers, night clubs that had customers deemed criminal (read: minorities), medical marijuana clinics and (post 2008) bank owned properties that had been foreclosed. 

We have hard criteria (credit worthiness, criminal record, etc) but they have to pass the PITA test first.