Tenant after consulting a lawyer, Tenant's Union or the Rent Board realizes that they do own the rent and begins to pay rent.Out of Pocket = $0Lost Rent = $0Security Deposit = Not lost Holding Steadfast, Tenant Doesn't Pay and Breaks LeaseTenant realize the rental increase is valid, but chooses to break the lease because the rent is too high.Out of Pocket = $0Lost Rent = 1/3 of April rent and possible 30 day notification period to vacate +Security Deposit = Can be used to replace April and pro-rated May rentHolding Steadfast, Tenant Doesn't Pay and Doesn't Move Out until after Moratorium and Payment PeriodTenant realizes the rental increase is valid, but chooses not to pay any more rent either because of impact to Covid-19 or because they know there's an eviction moratorium and can get away with not paying rent for not only 30 days after the emergency declaration has ended but also the 6 month deferred payment period.Out of Pocket = $0Lost Rent = 1/3 of April rent + possibly up to 7 months** + time to re-rentSecurity Deposit = Can be used to replace any unpaid rent**You can take Tenant to small claims and get a judgement for any unpaid rent, but may not be able to recover immediately if Tenant has no money.

I'm pretty sure the judgement will not happen.

That's some of the stuff you deal with.Most times you can't follow 3x rent, good credit...a lot of the times you are making a total judgement call on these folks.

Tenant moved and left keys but it voided the monetary judgement they had and the judge made them file a new claim for the damages they had already been awarded. 

An unpaid judgement might not be a deal-breaker, but pretty much. 

So instead of setting some arbitrary minimum credit score, I instead look for and deny based upon non-medical / non-student loan related collections, liens or judgement.

I learned real quickly from having tenants from hell and of course they had bad credit and judgements.

I only imagine needing the SSN if I end up filing for an eviction or judgement against the tenant, and someday want to turn it over to collections. 

@Scott Weaner If the cosigner is EXTREMELY strong, like they have multiple assets and/or incomes I can attach a judgement too, absolutely.

But trying to get a judgement in Florida because the tenet before you smoked seems very unlikely.