Hard work isn’t valued or recognized and my blood, sweat, and tears make someone else richer while I don’t see any of it.

There are certainly good people in all area codes, which you can find if you screen enough, but buy-n-large you will be dropping by the property in Lackawanna MUCH more often to fix things than if you had bought in a nicer neighborhood.

congratulations @Peter DarbyNot sure if you've read Brandon's blog on tenant screening, it has a lot of great tipshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/01/2...Ultimately this is a people business.

Not to say there aren't good deals to be found in those areas, if you do invest be very careful with screening tenants.

I see decent deals come across my screen now, but if I went for them I wouldn't take possession until fall.

Just do your homework and most of all screen, screen, screen your tenants. 

If the tenants are screened well, it would be easier.

What is the best way to screen tenants for credit, income verification, etc..?

I have read the Ultimate Screening Guide and written a basic set of screening requirements but still have some questions that hoping someone could help answer (maybe before I have to hire an attorney). 1) On the tenant resource center page (http://www.tenantresourcecenter.org/discrimination) I found what seems to say that "unemployment" is a protected class in the city of Madison: Madison includes all extra classes in Dane County plus: Citizenship Status (City of Madison only)Genetic Identity (City of Madison only)the fact that a person declines to disclose their social security numberAtheismHomelessnessUnemploymentThat seems a little odd to me.

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