If the credit report shows no IRS judgements or forced payment plans, and two years of tax returns indicate they pay the IRS, it's really none of your business WHEN they pay the IRS so long as it is within what the IRS allows... which is the only thing that looking at those withholdings can tell you.Same thing when you call past landlords.

You will also pay attention to liens, judgments, foreclosures.Try to match the mortgages, liens, judgements and foreclosures mentioned above to the legal discription listed on the property appraiser. 

Each state is different but you can collect roughly 9% interest on your judgement for at least 10 years.

If "for some odd reason" your debt does not get paid, you should already have a judgement, in which case, the interest is already set, and you have no control over it.

If you have no way of collecting money from them in a judgement any money spent will be wasted in addition.

My out of state rentals which are in somewhat lower income areas do not allow pets and our PM was adamant about it so we trusted his judgement.  

So, 9 months of legal battles and due to my diligence she is finally gone and we have a judgement against her.

Yet my phone keeps blowing up from prospective renters.Whether you keep or evict is a judgement call but the whole "can't evict because it looks bad" idea should have zero bearing on your decision.

Receipts are required.Poor judgement in using high value // priced carpets, but that's not any consideration on the issues.

This action is deliberate bad faith because it limits the escrowed amount agreed contractually and intended as security against damages.Good luck collecting it, because even if you win the judgement there's no way to enforce payment except through credit reporting and the possibility of settlement to clear the reported bad debt.