In Indiana at least, tenants have an implied covenant of quiet enjoyment – landlord will not interfere with tenant's quiet enjoymentThis can be breached in three ways.Total eviction of the tenant through direct physical invasion by landlord. 

@David DachteraAre you implying that moving the entire mortgage balance over does not work? 

That said, like a personal trainer...sometimes you're forced to get committed by jumping into a system like ours.

Use your standard screening process and make it stick.Word of caution:  Selling implies as soon as they close, they will be looking to go elsewhere, regardless of the terms on your lease.

Yes, I'm a pet owner and yes, I've had a dog turn destructive and quickly brought in a trainer to help me get the behavior under control.

Anyways, Your statement above implies that in the UK the SSN equivalent is NOT required, and thus that in the US it is required, to run a credit check.Are you proposing a way to check a person's creditworthiness for renting an apartment, with the US credit bureaus, without SSN?

I'm not implying placing others ahead of you in all matters and coming out on the short end is what is required, you are certainly entitled to benefit.

My properties are on the other side of town so I try not to imply that I will be there but I do parcel out the work and expect to be notified by the tenant when the work has been completed. 

I also didn't mean to imply that you need one for each bedroom, if one is installed in the vicinity of multiple bedrooms it should be code compliant.Is the hard wire requirement a local code?

"LaMorinda" (Lafayette, Orinda, Moraga) is also a very affluent region but I would consider that to be very established neighborhoods where you'd find a lot of old money.I didn't mean to imply that Antioch was an appreciating market, actually the opposite is true.