Mary Jo, Chris, Heather and everyone starting out, should you still decide to continue I bid you the best of luck in the emotional, social and spiritual struggles that comprise the entirety of buy-and-hold real estate investing.Just in case you are still wondering, while your mileage may vary, my tenants are harmful, suppressive, hypocritical, cultic, meretricious, jargon-spouting, harassive, restrictive, destructive, greedy, mendacious, violent, clueless, mind-numbing, criminal, satanic, spastic, secretive, barratrous, demented, loathsome, crazy, evasive, narrow, splenetic, bilious, belligerent, deceitful, cowardly, malignant, devious, stifling, unethical, opportunistic, uncaring, clumsy, clueless, tasteless, malevolent, avaricious, diseased, unsympathetic, insane, contemptible, self-righteous, dim, self-entitled, dystopic, grim, vengeful, idolatrous, flagrant, self-destructive, controlling, deceptive, illegitimate, brain-damaged, socially poisonous, conspiratorial, manipulative, fraudulent, despicable, weird, imbecilic, libelous, fundamentalist, byzantine, abusive and, to any well-meaning would-be real estate entrepreneur, not good.In other words, if you want to invest, you might want to play eenie-meenie-miney-moe with penny stocks or something.

Whatever attorney you hire will not file the grievance, attorneys are loathe to file grievances against other attorneys unless it is virtually criminal behavior. 

I personally don't accept anyone with a criminal record with crimes against people and/or property.  

Remind them that you do a thorough background check including criminal and eviction so save their money and everyone's time and tell you upfront what you'll find.

I read that both Transunion and Experian do not perform Eviction and criminal checks.

I would also let the responsible tenant know that every adult has to pass a criminal background check and send him the link to pass on to his roommates.  

HOWEVER, a bounced check, ie theft of service, would have me filing a private criminal complaint and getting local DA involved. 

This makes my decision very simple when combined with my desire to see those I consider to be criminal in nature to face the music.To ignore the fact that their actions are, in my opinion, criminal does not allow me to turn a blind eye regardless of the time or cost associated with me taking action to "punish".I know very few landlords are willing to take the moral high ground in dealing with reprehensible bad tenant behaviour but I am one.

How about accepting drug dealers, 500 credit score, evicted tenants, criminals.

Also - even over-disclosing your purchase and subsequent sale details to all parties involved I fear will STILL not guarantee exemption from non-compliance and possible civil or criminal sanctions given the wide latitude on interpretation of what constitutes a badge of fraud that Freddie's opinion has over ours.