Once the Craiglist listing is hijacked, think of the less informed individuals that will be duped to pay a deposit for a discounted property by depositing funds into the criminals account or sending the money to some random address.

@Joe Gore They provide full credit report, credit score, and national criminal background check and a conlcusion with applicant recommendations.

If protocols were not followed outlined by the government for safe lending practices that caused the bank to go under the officers can face criminal prosecution.

Also would like to know if they have criminal history. 

@Nick Wight I would make sure to get 3 bids, check out their current/past projects in person, and do all the other due diligence necessary before hiring anyone (criminal/civil record, insurance, etc.).

I have rented before and used screening service called TVS, Tenant Verification Service to pull credit, rental and criminal reports.I have not pulled a report in a while and they have apparently changed the way they operate, in that the renter now pulls their own reports and supplies them to me.

I doubt you'd want to send someone over with a criminal background or that is a registered sex offender.

Make sure their criminal history checks out.Another key factor is employment history.

I get a great picture of my tenant's credit and criminal profiles.  

One streeteasy.com writer made an interesting point: "This is not the criminal justice system where there are multiple degrees of culpability.