The good hard working men and woman that have a challenged work history or perhaps have a not so colorful background with the criminal justice system.  

Not only do they not follow the rules... they do not know the rules... and probably do not know that it is a criminal offense to hold yourself out as a property manager if you are not properly licensed in Ohio.

If you run a check through a service on your own that should also include a criminal and eviction check, which wouldn't be the same as just the credit report the applicant would provide you.  

Otherwise their history is clean - no criminal cases or evictions.

No criminal records.

They check criminal background, credit and for any eviction history that has been registered.

He has a criminal history (from 10 years ago) and says his credit is not good, but is trying to rebuild it to buy a house in a couple of years.

I use rentalapplication.net, then Transunion Smart move for criminal/credit background check. 2) Rent Collection - I give the option of collecting rent via Chase QP, Venmo, Paypal, or Cozy.co.

If you are using a property management company make sure to tell what kind of tenant you want (FICO, income to rent ratio, section 8[I don't recommend],prior evictions, criminal history[sex offenders], marijuana on property)If your unit is a studio or 1 bedroom you can a lot more money wit Airbnb, most markets now have Airbnb property management that handles all turn-over things such as cleaning, dealing with guest, we use and August Smart lock that sincs with Airbnb so you can see on when they come and leave plus a security camera outside the unit to make sure there is no extra people or a party going at my unit so far we are making more than double from what we use to make on it with a regular tenant.

IE mainly all SFR or small commercial buildings.GOOD insurance will be what U need.Although the slumlord  stuff were you have deaths because of maintenance defects  those are real and can turn criminal.