You'll be sued, have to pay hospital bills and possibly face more civil/criminal charges.And your nice wood floor is ruined beyond repair.

As someone who has spent the last 5-months cleaning up the mess for a client left by a large prominent property management company in Milwaukee, my suggestion is to talk to current and past clients.These companies have memberships in all of the right organizations, but they are literally ripping off their clients.What I found in the shoddy way they repaired things and what they charged their clients should be criminal.

I am interested in hearing feedback on how this could change the screening process.Here's my current screening process:Collect & Verify last 5 years of rental & employment history.Run Checks: criminal, credit, and eviction.Income Requirement: 3x monthly rent (this can be substituted by paying a security deposit of 4x rent)Phone InterviewIn person (or video) InterviewMy rental strategy seems to greatly reduce my risk (eviction, damage to property, vacancy, etc). 

Included in this should be a minimum credit score, income, evictions, and criminal record.

once I have a potential tenant then I send them a link from Zillow Smartmove and they can apply, this runs their credit and a criminal check on them. 

Tall grass, boarded up windows you can almost guarantee it's vacant or someone used it for criminal activity.You will need to know the comps for similar homes in the area or rents if you plan on keeping it. 

I re-rent the property to these folks who checked out as far as credit, and employment but I must admit....I didn't really check their mortgage information or criminal background.

if this happens you have to file criminal charges.. simple as that.. property is not going anywhere.. but we should not really talk about this on social media don't want to give the Evil Doers any ideas. 

With 'perfect' credit, criminal, job history, etc we are more inclined to offer longer terms.  

While we can ask if the tenant has a criminal history before we rent to them, how would we appropriately handle a guest of the tenant that has a criminal history, but is not on the lease?