Our policy is anyone over 18 goes on the lease and gets a background check, if they have a criminal past or sex offender register and they commit a crime you could have some liability in it.

One has excellent income with a good employer, excellent landlord reference, no criminal or court records, all good stuff.  

Most government agencies that provide rent vouchers probably frown upon criminal behavior and/or damaging a landlord's property. 

Regarding any potential legal action, I come from a law enforcement background, so I am trying to look at it from a criminal and civil law issue.  

I have called other Prop management in the area that we're recommend, One person told me we don't do background checks we only do Criminal Checks, and we don't do Credit checks.

But this is driven more by each market.When I get interest, I mention the following:- No evictions on background- No major criminal record- 3x rent in TAKE HOME pay, and this must be verified through paystubs- Tenant must drive the area PRIOR to me showing the property (not needed if I do an open house)- $50 application fee, will be applied to first month's rent if lease signedFinally, if they are alright with all of that, and we start to setup a showing, I let them know I will call and text them between 1-2 hours before showing.  

The Senate is trying to fix the problem created in 2015 when a circuit court found Arkansas' criminal eviction provisions unconstitutional.  

Washington State does it one better:"Chapter 61.34 RCW provides that the conduct of buying Washington distressed residential real property purchased from a homeowner who is behind on mortgage payments (or unpaid property taxes) and facing bank foreclosure (or tax sale) may be construed as ‘equity skimming’ and therefore, may be illegal (both civilly and criminally). 

For example, proof of income (3X rent for gross income) 560 or better credit score, no evictions in the past 5 years, no criminal background, etc. are all examples of what you can have.

I don't accept tenants below 700.When Steve does his criminal back ground checks, some of his tenants have rap sheets pages long.I have yet to encounter a tenant that had more than a ding on marijuana possession.Steve has to do evictions every single year.It's been about a 15 years since I did my last eviction, but that was from inherited tenants when I bought the building.Steve sometimes has some of his apts totally destroyed.For me, the worst that has happened is that a tenant left the apt in a mess and I have to hire someone to clean up.I think I made my point.The education that's been given to these Investors is that everything will work out just fine as if there isn't a lot of bumps in the rode to owning in "C" and "D" class neighborhoods.A lot of them self-manage and a lot have problems with Property Managers.I had one of my friends, Russell, who hired a PM for his Investment in a "D" neighborhood in PA.