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 have gone to two seminars from TV flipping stars out here in Southern California and can warn you that they are nothing more than an entertaining show and high pressure sales pitch to get you to buy their full plan (which others that go through it rate very poorly).  

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.

BP editors should do a better job screening the post they share.

You say the tenants screened the new tenants ?